TY - JOUR
T1 - Getting the knack for team-improvised adaptation
T2 - The role of reflexivity and team mental model similarity
AU - Abrantes, António Cunha Meneses
AU - Passos, Ana Margarida
AU - Cunha, Miguel Pina e
AU - Santos, Catarina Marques
N1 - Funding agencies#
FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia#
[grant number UID/ECO/00124/2013]#
and the POR Lisboa#
[Grant number LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-007722]#
PY - 2022/6/1
Y1 - 2022/6/1
N2 - Organizational teams operate in increasingly volatile environments in which the speed and degree of change accelerates, demanding rapid adaptation processes namely of the improvisational type. It is therefore essential to understand how to prepare teams to operate in such contexts. This work investigates the effects of team mental model similarity, in-action reflexivity, and transitional reflexivity on team-improvised adaptation performance and on team-improvised adaptation learning. Two experiments were conducted with a total of 121 teams. We manipulated the independent variables and used an overtime design to measure team-improvised adaptation learning. Our findings suggest that teams operating in unpredictable environments that require rapid adaptation should be able to reflect collectively, both while acting and between tasks. These teams should also develop a common understanding of the main elements of the context and the task, so that they are effective in the face of unpredictability and rapid change.
AB - Organizational teams operate in increasingly volatile environments in which the speed and degree of change accelerates, demanding rapid adaptation processes namely of the improvisational type. It is therefore essential to understand how to prepare teams to operate in such contexts. This work investigates the effects of team mental model similarity, in-action reflexivity, and transitional reflexivity on team-improvised adaptation performance and on team-improvised adaptation learning. Two experiments were conducted with a total of 121 teams. We manipulated the independent variables and used an overtime design to measure team-improvised adaptation learning. Our findings suggest that teams operating in unpredictable environments that require rapid adaptation should be able to reflect collectively, both while acting and between tasks. These teams should also develop a common understanding of the main elements of the context and the task, so that they are effective in the face of unpredictability and rapid change.
KW - team adaptation
KW - team improvisation
KW - team learning
KW - team mental models
KW - team reflexivity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85104835205&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/00218863211009344
DO - 10.1177/00218863211009344
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85104835205
SN - 0021-8863
VL - 58
SP - 281
EP - 315
JO - The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
JF - The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
IS - 2
ER -