Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration.
School of Business.
J Appl Psychol. 2023 Apr;108(4):647-659. doi: 10.1037/apl0001035. Epub 2022 Jul 28.
A growing body of the literature shows the influence of cognitive styles, which capture the ways individuals share, encode, and process information, and their implications for collaboration. We build on this literature to investigate the special contributions of individuals with cognitive style versatility, or facility in more than one cognitive style, for improving teams' collaborative performance. In two studies, including a total of 452 participants in 132 teams, we observe that the presence of cognitively versatile individuals has direct (Study 1) and indirect (Study 2) effects on team performance. In an exploratory analysis, we observe that the presence of cognitively versatile individuals facilitates the task and social processes necessary for effective team information processing, specifically reducing team process conflict and task conflict and enhancing team social integration, with social integration mediating the relationship between cognitive style versatility and team performance. Importantly, these effects remain even when accounting for team cognitive ability and other measures of team surface- and deep-level diversity. Our findings contribute to the emerging literature on team composition and its implications for collaboration and teamwork. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
越来越多的文献表明认知风格的影响，认知风格可以捕捉个体共享、编码和处理信息的方式，以及它们对协作的影响。我们在此基础上进行研究，探讨具有认知风格多样性的个体（即能够灵活运用多种认知风格）对提高团队协作绩效的特殊贡献。在两项研究中，我们总共观察了 452 名参与者在 132 个团队中的表现，发现认知灵活的个体的存在对团队绩效有直接（研究 1）和间接（研究 2）的影响。在一项探索性分析中，我们观察到认知灵活的个体的存在促进了有效团队信息处理所需的任务和社会过程，特别是减少了团队过程冲突和任务冲突，增强了团队社会融合，社会融合中介了认知风格多样性与团队绩效之间的关系。重要的是，即使考虑到团队的认知能力和其他团队表面和深层次多样性的衡量标准，这些影响仍然存在。我们的研究结果为团队构成及其对协作和团队合作的影响的新兴文献做出了贡献。
