Pasarakonda Surabhi, Maynard Travis, Schmutz Jan B, Lüthold Patrick, Grote Gudela
ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Group Organ Manag. 2025 Jun;50(3):840-895. doi: 10.1177/10596011231193176. Epub 2023 Aug 3.
In today's dynamic work environment, teams are increasingly confronted with disruptions. While there are different types of disruptions that teams face, we contend that team composition disruptions that occur during the completion of a team's task can be especially challenging. We also argue that it is important to consider different types of team composition changes as they create different demands for team adaptation. Specifically, we assess the effects of loss of a team member and change in team membership resulting from injury substitution. We examine how these two types of team composition disruptions impact coordination and team outcomes (i.e., goals scored) by leveraging data from 2,280 soccer games in the English Premier League. We found that team member loss impaired both team coordination and outcomes while team member substitution only impacted team coordination. Moreover, we build upon and extend existing research that has examined team familiarity by distinguishing between familiarity that is built amongst members on the current team (i.e., current team familiarity) and familiarity that has developed as a result of members working together in prior teams (i.e., prior team familiarity). This distinction appears important as we did not find evidence of a main effect of prior team familiarity on coordination but found evidence of a reversing curvilinear effect of current team familiarity on coordination. Finally, the indirect effect of team member loss on team outcomes through team coordination was more pronounced when teams had low (compared to high) prior team familiarity.
在当今充满活力的工作环境中，团队越来越多地面临各种干扰。虽然团队面临着不同类型的干扰，但我们认为，在团队任务完成过程中发生的团队构成干扰可能尤其具有挑战性。我们还认为，考虑不同类型的团队构成变化很重要，因为它们对团队适应提出了不同的要求。具体而言，我们评估了团队成员流失以及因伤病替换导致的团队成员变动的影响。我们利用英超联赛2280场足球比赛的数据，研究了这两种团队构成干扰如何影响协调性和团队成果（即进球数）。我们发现，团队成员流失会损害团队协调性和成果，而团队成员替换仅影响团队协调性。此外，我们在现有研究的基础上进行拓展，通过区分当前团队成员之间建立的熟悉度（即当前团队熟悉度）和成员在先前团队中共同工作所形成的熟悉度（即先前团队熟悉度）来考察团队熟悉度。这种区分似乎很重要，因为我们没有发现先前团队熟悉度对协调性有主效应的证据，但发现了当前团队熟悉度对协调性有反向曲线效应的证据。最后，当团队的先前团队熟悉度较低（与较高相比）时，团队成员流失通过团队协调性对团队成果的间接影响更为明显。
