Working in Harmony: The Impact of Personality on the Short- and Long-Run Dynamics of Team Cohesion

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dc.contributor.authorActon, Bryan Patricken
dc.contributor.committeechairFoti, Roseanne J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBraun, Michael T.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBeal, Daniel J.en
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-13T19:44:13Zen
dc.date.adate2016-07-01en
dc.date.available2017-06-13T19:44:13Zen
dc.date.issued2016-05-09en
dc.date.rdate2016-07-01en
dc.date.sdate2016-05-23en
dc.description.abstractTeam cohesion represents arguably the most studied team construct as it has been consistently shown to be associated with improved performance. However, although cohesion is now understood to be an emergent state—as it develops over a team's life cycle—research has yet to uncover the dynamic nature of cohesion. The current study was designed to particularly test the impact of team personality composition both on the initial status of cohesion, and on changes in cohesion over time. 80 newly formed teams performed a highly interdependent team task, and team cohesion was measured over six time points. Personality was measured prior to the task and calculated at the team level, as both an average and a variability score. After performing longitudinal hierarchical linear modeling, results indicated that team personality impacts cohesion differently at initial status and over time. In particular, higher team agreeableness predicted greater slopes of cohesion, but not initial cohesion levels. Also, higher extraversion predicted greater initial status of cohesion, but not greater slopes. These results present important boundary conditions for understanding the role of team personality composition on team cohesion.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05232016-233229en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05232016-233229/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/78138en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectLongitudinalen
dc.subjectTeam Compositionen
dc.subjectEmergenceen
dc.subjectTeamsen
dc.subjectMultilevel Modelingen
dc.titleWorking in Harmony: The Impact of Personality on the Short- and Long-Run Dynamics of Team Cohesionen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychologyen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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