Although potentially beneficial, task conflict may threaten teams because it often leads to relationship conflict. Prior research has identified a set of interpersonal factors (e.g., team communication, team trust) that help attenuate this association. The purpose of this article is to provide an alternative perspective that focuses on the moderating role of performancerelated factors (i.e., pe...

BACKGROUND Quality of care in general practice may be affected by the team climate perceived by its health and non-health professionals. Better team working is thought to lead to higher effectiveness and quality of care. However, there is limited evidence available on what affects team functioning and its relationship with quality of care in general practice. This study aimed to explore individ...

Drawing from team-level job demands-resources theory, we hypothesize that team workload demands moderate the positive link between boundary work (i.e., spanning and buffering) effectiveness innovation performance), such is more beneficial for when teams face higher demands. Furthermore, predict this interaction occurs through increased vigor, where vigor defined as an affective emergent state c...

Effective communication and teamwork have been identified in the literature as key enablers of patient safety. The SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) process has proven to be an effective communication tool in acute care settings to structure high-urgency communications, particularly between physicians and nurses; however, little is known of its effectiveness in other setting...

This paper presents an experiment on the impact of Shared Mental Models (SMM) on creative virtual teamwork. We tested whether the usage of an online whiteboard influences the building of SMM in the initial phase of virtual teamwork. As SMM are the foundation for successful collaboration in teams, we transferred the construct on measuring the team task and team goal in a creative virtual team pr...

Purpose This paper aims to examine the influence of interplay between servant leadership behaviors and Machiavellianism on leader effectiveness. Design/methodology/approach Drawing trait activation theory motivation lead theory, authors hypothesize that effect perceived effectiveness is manifested differently in teams with high-Machiavellian vs. low-Machiavellian leaders. In leaders, are expect...