Abstract
Can Work Teams Prosper with Membership Flux? The Role of Team Receptivity to Newcomers
Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol.2019(1), p.17890
08/01/2019
DOI: 10.5465/AMBPP.2019.316
Abstract
Abstract only. The growing fluidity of team composition signifies new requirements for teams to survive and prosper. In order to answer whether, how, and when teams could gain rather than lose from membership flux, this study conducts a meta-analysis on team receptivity to newcomers, which captures the work teams’ responses to the newcomer. Results show that team receptivity is positively related to team performance, newcomer performance, and newcomer commitment to the focal team. Organizational socialization activities, inter-team competition, team experience in membership change, newcomer competence, and newcomer prototypicality all contribute to a team’s receptivity. In addition, the team receptivity-performance relationship is stronger when the newcomer joins as a replacement of an old-timer than as a pure addition to the team in field studies but not in lab experiments. This study contributes to team research in membership change and team receptivity, examines the relatively overlooked direction of how newcomer entry impacts work teams in the socialization literature, and provides practical guidance on teams exerting the benefits brought by newcomer entry.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Can Work Teams Prosper with Membership Flux? The Role of Team Receptivity to Newcomers
- Creators
- Qi Zhang - Tippie College of Business, U. of IowaRong Su - Tippie College of Business, U. of IowaSeung Whan Ryu - Tippie College of Business, U. of IowaChristina Li - University of IowaKun Yu - Renmin University of China
- Resource Type
- Abstract
- Publication Details
- Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol.2019(1), p.17890
- DOI
- 10.5465/AMBPP.2019.316
- eISSN
- 2151-6561
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/01/2019
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984380363902771
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