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TEAM ADAPTATION IN COMPLEX ENVIORNMENTS
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Better off together: A cluster analysis of self-leadership and its relationship to individual innovation in hospital nurses
Publication . Gomes, Catarina; Curral, Luis; Caetano, António; Marques-Quinteiro, Pedro
Self-leadership is designed to influence positive outcomes like individuals’ innovative capacity
in the workplace. Nevertheless, research on the relationship between self-leadership and individual
innovation has failed to determine which self-leadership strategies contribute to innovation. Thus, this
study aims to: explore the existence of different profiles of self-leadershipstrategies in hospital nurses and,
test if these different profiles have different effects on individuals’ ability to be innovative. 288 nurses
participated in this study. Firstly, data was analysed using Cluster analysis. Secondly, to verify the
significance of the association between self-leadership clusters and individual innovation chi-square tests
were conducted and the adjusted residuals were considered. Results revealed the existence of 3 different
clusters of self-leadership, and that individual innovation is more frequent when all self-leadership
strategies are used. The findings suggest that self-leadership strategies vary between individuals and that
they all should be fostered in order to promote individual innovation.
There Is Light and There Is Darkness: On the Temporal Dynamics of Cohesion, Coordination, and Performance in Business Teams
Publication . Marques-Quinteiro, Pedro; Rico Muñoz, Ramon; Passos, A. M.; Curral, Luis
This study examines teams as complex adaptive systems (tCAS) and uses latent
growth curve modeling to test team cohesion as an initial condition conducive to
team performance over time and the mediational effect of team coordination on this
relationship. After analyzing 158 teams enrolled in a business game simulation over five
consecutive weeks, we found that change in team coordination was best described
by a continuous linear change model, while change in team performance was best
described by a continuous nonlinear change model; and the mediation latent growth
curve model revealed a negative indirect effect of team cohesion on the level of change
in team performance over time, through the level of change in team coordination. This
study contributes to the science of teams by combining the notions of initial conditions
with co-evolving team dynamics, hence creating a more refined temporal approach to
understanding team functioning.
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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SFRH/BD/77614/2011