Journal article
Authors list: van de Brake, Hendrik J.; Walter, Frank; Rink, Floor A.; Essens, Peter J. M. D.; van der Vegt, Gerben S.
Publication year: 2020
Pages: 967-987
Journal: Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
Volume number: 93
Issue number: 4
ISSN: 0963-1798
eISSN: 2044-8325
Open access status: Hybrid
DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12326
Publisher: Wiley
Individuals in contemporary work organizations are often involved in multiple teams at the same time. This study uses a social capital perspective to propose that employees' multiple team memberships (MTM) offer the potential for individual performance benefitsanddetriments, depending on the characteristics of an employee's information-sharing network. To test our predictions, we gathered both archival and survey data at an organization for applied research in the Netherlands. We found that individual MTM was indirectly associated with an employee's overall job performance by increasing the size of his or her information-sharing network. As expected, however, this indirect relationship was contingent on the average strength of an employee's network ties (i.e., the frequency of the respective interactions), such that MTM only improved overall performance when network ties were relatively weak. The indirect relationship between MTM and individual job performance was negative, by contrast, when an employee's network ties were relatively strong. Together, these findings advance our understanding of the mechanisms and contingency factors that shape the performance consequences associated with individuals' concurrent membership in multiple teams. Practitioner points
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Citation Styles
Harvard Citation style: van de Brake, H., Walter, F., Rink, F., Essens, P. and van der Vegt, G. (2020) Multiple team membership and job performance: The role of employees' information-sharing networks, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 93(4), pp. 967-987. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12326
APA Citation style: van de Brake, H., Walter, F., Rink, F., Essens, P., & van der Vegt, G. (2020). Multiple team membership and job performance: The role of employees' information-sharing networks. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. 93(4), 967-987. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12326