Short-term and long-term relationships between reflection and performance in teams: evidence from a four-wave longitudinal study

Udo Konradt; Gordon Eckardt

doi:10.1080/1359432X.2016.1160058

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Short-term and long-term relationships between reflection and performance in teams: evidence from a four-wave longitudinal study

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Short-term and long-term relationships between reflection and performance in teams: evidence from a four-wave longitudinal study

Udo Konradt and Gordon Eckardt

European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Vol.25(6), pp.804-818

2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2016.1160058

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Business and Management

Psychology

reflexivity

reflection

performance

teams

time

change

trajectories

autoregressive latent trajectory models

Previous theory and research suggest that team reflection is beneficial for team performance. We argue that results remain inconclusive because prior studies have not accounted for the dynamic nature of this relationship. This paper addresses this research gap by examining time-specific relationships among variables and the intra-team variability of changes across time. In a four-wave longitudinal field study with 97 teams (N = 453 team members) performing a business simulation task, short-term (i.e., autoregressive, cross-lagged effects) and long-term (i.e., latent trajectories) relationships between team reflection and performance were explored. We found evidence that reflection had negative autoregressive effects and that there were direct positive short-term relationships between reflection and performance. Reflection trajectories were seen to decline across time and performance trajectories to increase across time. In addition, teams with either low initial reflection or low initial performance showed higher increases in reflection across time, whilst higher increase in reflection was negatively related to change in performance. Findings are discussed with respect to how they extend the previous literature and what directions they suggest for future research.

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Title: Short-term and long-term relationships between reflection and performance in teams: evidence from a four-wave longitudinal study
Authors: Udo Konradt (Author) - Kiel University, Germany
Gordon Eckardt (Author) - University of Applied Science, Germany
Publication details: European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Vol.25(6), pp.804-818
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2016
DOI: 10.1080/1359432X.2016.1160058
ISSN: 1359-432X
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451144802621
Output Type: Journal article

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