Linking Team Fluidity to Organizational Performance in Team-Centric Organizations

随着极端风事件（如飓风和龙卷风）的威胁已经扩展到美国东南部以外的地区，这项工作的领域——灾后碎片清除行动——已经成为联邦和州政府关注的焦点。迅速有效地清除残骸是成功从灾难中恢复的第一步。这项工作将收集与最近在阿拉巴马州发生的大规模龙卷风风暴后碎片清除相关的数据，以调查这些现象。预计这项工作将有利于社会，有助于其规划和应对大规模灾害的能力，特别是提高对碎片清除性能决定因素的了解。特别是，它应该开发能够加快恢复进程并使社区更能抵御灾害影响的模式和方法。它将通过开发教育材料来促进发现，同时促进学习，这些材料将整合到本科和研究生水平的课程中，以及实践专业人员的材料中。它将通过将代表性不足的群体纳入研究小组来扩大他们的参与，并通过创建供其他研究人员使用的数据集和分析工具来加强研究基础设施。这项工作的成果将通过出版物和在学术和从业者场所的演讲广泛传播，包括举办研讨会，向碎片管理实践介绍新的工具和技术。本研究的中心目标是扩展和检验将团队层面的现象与组织结果联系起来的理论。重点是残骸清除小组。这项工作的一个特别重点是发展和评估新的理论和方法，以调查(i)将团队组成与团队绩效联系起来的团队层面现象，以及（ii）从团队层面现象到组织层面结果的相互关系。为此，它将扩展当前的方法方法，以检查团队和组织级别内部和跨团队和组织级别的这些关系。它还将明确地模拟与团队和组织组成有关的绩效（有效性、效率和平等）的不同方面之间的权衡。这项工作得益于对与碎片清除操作相关的大量数据的访问（包括在此操作期间每个团队搬运的每一负载碎片的事务记录），以及对主题专家的访问。该研究的一个显著特征是它使用了团队成员及其执行的工作的过程级数据。验证将从多个角度进行，从咨询主题专家到档案研究和经典统计方法（如保留样本）。

The domain of this work - post-disaster debris removal operations - has become a focal concern for both Federal and state governments as the threat of extreme wind events (such as hurricanes and tornadoes) has extended to areas outside the southeast United States. Rapid and efficient debris removal is the first step toward successful recovery from disasters. This work will marshal data associated with debris removal following a recent large-scale tornado storm in Alabama to investigate these phenomena. This work is expected to benefit society by contributing to its ability to plan for and respond to large-scale disasters, particularly by improving understanding of the determinants of debris removal performance. In particular, it should develop models and lessens that will speed up the recovery process and make communities more resilient to disaster impacts. It will advance discovery while promoting learning by developing educational materials which will be integrated into undergraduate- and graduate-level course work, as well as into materials for practicing professionals. It will broaden participation of under-represented groups through their inclusion in the research team and enhance research infrastructure through the creation of data sets and analytic tools for use by other researchers. Results of this work will be broadly disseminated through publications and presentations in academic and practitioner venues, to include seminars organized to introduce new tools and techniques to the practice of debris management. The central goal of this research is to extend and test theories that link team-level phenomena to organizational outcomes. The central focus is upon debris removal teams. A particular thrust of this work is on developing and evaluating new theory and methodologies to investigate (i) team-level phenomena that link team composition to team performance, and (ii) reciprocal relationships from team-level phenomena to organizational-level outcomes. To do so, it will extend current methodological approaches for examining these relationships within and across team and organizational levels. It will also explicitly model tradeoffs among different aspects of performance (effectiveness, efficiency and equality) in relation to team and organizational composition. This work benefits from access to a wealth of data associated with debris removal operations (including transactional records of every load of debris hauled by every team during this operation), as well as access to subject matter experts. A distinguishing feature of this research is its use of process-level data on team members and the work they perform. Validation will be undertaken from multiple perspectives, ranging from consultation with subject matter experts to archival research and classical statistical methods such as holdout samples.