A Study of Team Leaning Activities in Npd Project Teams – the Mediating Mechanism of Team Members’ Perceived Transactive Memory Systems
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This study applies transactive memory systems (TMS) as the mechanism connecting division of labor with team learning activities. A field study was conducted to verify and refine this framework and to provide potential theoretical explanations for the influences of division of labor at organizational level on its NPD teams’ learning activities. Several propositions derived from this field study are: 1) Higher levels of division of labor at organizational level associate with higher levels of TMS perceived by the team members, 2) Higher levels of responsibility assignment also associate with higher levels of TMS, and 3) An earlier and clearer TMS associates more team learning activities.
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