Zhao Kai, Zong Boqiang, Zhang Lihua
Department of Human Resource Management, School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
Front Psychol. 2020 Aug 14;11:2041. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02041. eCollection 2020.
Many organizations adopt team-based structures to better survive in the highly competitive environment. To achieve this goal, teams not only need to develop new ideas to adapt to the changing situations, but also follow standardized procedures to complete tasks effectively, suggesting the importance of ambidextrous capacity on addressing the paradoxical demands. However, we have little knowledge about both of how to respectively facilitate team ambidextrous learning (i.e., team explorative and exploitative learning) and how team the two learning activities contributes to team effectiveness. Using the multi-time and multi-source data gathered from 140 teams in 6 Chinese companies, we found that team leader's power sharing and management control behaviors (i.e., ambidextrous leader behaviors) specifically enhanced team explorative and exploitative learning. In addition, our results showed that team explorative and exploitative learning drove overall team performance via the mechanisms of team creativity and task completion respectively. The theoretical and practical implications, limitations, and future research directions are discussed as well.
许多组织采用基于团队的结构，以便在高度竞争的环境中更好地生存。为实现这一目标，团队不仅需要开发新想法以适应不断变化的形势，还需要遵循标准化程序以有效完成任务，这表明了具备兼顾两种能力对于应对矛盾需求的重要性。然而，我们对于如何分别促进团队的兼顾两种能力的学习（即团队探索性学习和利用性学习）以及这两种学习活动如何对团队效能产生贡献都知之甚少。通过收集来自6家中国公司140个团队的多时段、多来源数据，我们发现团队领导者的权力分享和管理控制行为（即兼顾两种能力的领导行为）能够特别地增强团队探索性学习和利用性学习。此外，我们的研究结果表明，团队探索性学习和利用性学习分别通过团队创造力和任务完成机制推动了整体团队绩效。我们还讨论了研究的理论和实践意义、局限性以及未来的研究方向。
