Team structure and regulatory focus: the impact of regulatory fit on team dynamic |
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Authors: | Dimotakis Nikolaos Davison Robert B Hollenbeck John R |
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Institution: | Department of Managerial Sciences, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA. ndimotakis@gsu.edu |
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Abstract: | We report a within-teams experiment testing the effects of fit between team structure and regulatory task demands on task performance and satisfaction through average team member positive affect and helping behaviors. We used a completely crossed repeated-observations design in which 21 teams enacted 2 tasks with different regulatory focus characteristics (prevention and promotion) in 2 organizational structures (functional and divisional), resulting in 84 observations. Results suggested that salient regulatory demands inherent in the task interacted with structure to determine objective and subjective team-level outcomes, such that functional structures were best suited to (i.e., had best fit with) tasks with a prevention regulatory focus and divisional structures were best suited to tasks with a promotion regulatory focus. This contingency finding integrates regulatory focus and structural contingency theories, and extends them to the team level with implications for models of performance, satisfaction, and team dynamics. |
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