What is it about?
We make the case that there are five unique overall patterns that teams might experience in their performance over time. What this means in practice is that the same interventions are not going to work for all teams; we need to take into account what the team has experienced and what track its performance is on in order to better understand how to help improve performance.
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Why is it important?
We review the last ten years of research on team performance in the management and organizational behavior fields and find that very little of this research considers how team performance might change over time in a systematic way. Indeed, the idea that teams might display different performance journeys is new in our literature. This means that we have to think about what path teams are on in order to best help them; we can't just assume that one approach will help all teams.
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My co-authors and I have been thinking about the ideas in this paper for a long time. We are people who love to think about teams, both in abstract and concrete ways... We had a lot of fun using metaphors from classical mythology to describe the five fundamental patterns in team performance that we describe in this paper (the "archetypes"), and we hope you find our work thought-provoking and useful.
Narda Quigley
Villanova University
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This page is a summary of: Team Performance Archetypes: Toward a New Conceptualization of Team Performance Over Time, Group & Organization Management, August 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1059601118794344.
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