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Investigating the relation between multi team membership & individual performance and the possible moderating effect of personality traits
Dijkstra, R.W. (2021) Investigating the relation between multi team membership & individual performance and the possible moderating effect of personality traits.
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| Abstract: | In recent history much research has been conducted on the contemporary work environment and the deployment of project teams in this environment. It is found that in this environment the employees are often deployed in more than one team at a time (Mortensen, 2014, O’Leary et al., 2011). This phenomenon is called multiple team membership (MTM). This research topic is quite new and therefore this research is aiming at adding to the existing literature. This research focusses on the relation between MTM and individual performance, splitting individual performance into standard job performance and innovative performance, according to the Role-based performance scale by Welbourne, Johnson and Erez (1998), which focuses both on what is described as standard individual job performance as well as the innovative individual job performance. The reasoning is that both standard and innovative individual job performance are relevant for an organization to be competitive. Additionally the big five personality traits are included into the model as moderator variables, because the literature regarding this topic suggests that the big five character traits might influence the relation between MTM and performance. This research used a cross-sectional research design where the data was gathered using an online questionnaire which was distributed and completed by 70 respondents. The research question was answered by analysing the data with a hierarchical multiple regression method. The regression analysis hinted at some interesting relations, namely a curvilinear relation between MTM and individual standard job performance, as well as some moderation effects (openness and extraversion on the linear relation between MTM and innovative performance, openness and conscientiousness on the curvilinear relation between MTM and standard job performance). However, the results had to be classified as inconclusive, because the results were either not strongly significant enough or not consistent across the models. These results therefore suggest that further research is needed into this topic, which this paper elaborates on in the discussion |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 85 business administration, organizational science |
| Programme: | Business Administration MSc (60644) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/89220 |
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