School of Industrial Relations, University of Montreal, C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville, Montreal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada.
J Psychol. 2013 Mar-Apr;147(2):153-75. doi: 10.1080/00223980.2012.678413.
This study investigates the role of collective autonomy in regard to team absenteeism by considering team potency as a motivational mediator and task routineness as a moderator. The sample consists of 90 work teams (327 members and 90 immediate superiors) drawn from a public safety organization. Results of structural equation modeling indicate that the relationships between collective autonomy and two indicators of team absenteeism (i.e., absence frequency and time lost) are mediated by team potency. Specifically, collective autonomy is positively related to team potency which in turn is negatively related to team absenteeism. Furthermore, results of hierarchical regression analyses show that task routineness moderates the relationships between collective autonomy and the two indicators of team absenteeism such that these relationships are stronger when the level of task routineness is low. On the whole, this study points out that collective autonomy may exercise a motivational effect on attendance at work within teams, but this effect is contingent on task routineness.
本研究通过考虑团队效力作为动机中介，以及任务常规性作为调节因素，考察了集体自治在团队缺勤方面的作用。样本由来自公共安全组织的 90 个工作团队（327 名成员和 90 名直属上级）组成。结构方程模型的结果表明，集体自治与团队缺勤的两个指标（即缺勤频率和缺勤时间）之间的关系是由团队效力中介的。具体而言，集体自治与团队效力呈正相关，而团队效力与团队缺勤呈负相关。此外，分层回归分析的结果表明，任务常规性调节了集体自治与团队缺勤两个指标之间的关系，当任务常规性水平较低时，这些关系更强。总的来说，本研究指出，集体自治可能对团队成员的工作出勤具有激励作用，但这种作用取决于任务常规性。
