My team makes me think I can (not) do it: team processes influence proactive motivational profiles over time
ISSN: 1352-7592
Article publication date: 1 February 2022
Issue publication date: 25 February 2022
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to investigate cross-level influences of team cohesion, trust and conflicts on team member’s proactive motivational profiles and outcomes of profile membership over time.
Design/methodology/approach
Data was collected in a four-month longitudinal field study with 47 teams (N = 202).
Findings
Latent profile analysis derived four proactive motivational profiles. The higher motivated profiles reported better study outcomes, higher levels of team trust and cohesion and fewer conflicts over time. Team trust and interpersonal conflicts emerged as significant predictors of profile membership.
Practical implications
Recommendations are derived on how to best manage teams and the members comprising it when trust in teams is low or interpersonal conflicts are high.
Originality/value
Applying a person-centred approach in a team context advances multi-level theories of team motivation by mapping the cross-level effects of team processes on different kinds of motivational states.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Lea Krugmann and Linda Knott for their valuable contribution in collecting and managing the data and the AOW research club and Paula Volkmann for their helpful feedback on earlier versions of the paper.
Data availability: Data generated/analysed in this study are available in the OSF repository, https://osf.io/z9pg5/
Citation
Ontrup, G. and Kluge, A. (2022), "My team makes me think I can (not) do it: team processes influence proactive motivational profiles over time", Team Performance Management, Vol. 28 No. 1/2, pp. 21-44. https://doi.org/10.1108/TPM-05-2021-0036
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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