Purpose – The paper aims to follow social exchange theory and group social capital theory, to predict positive relationships between (informal) mentoring and various support resources for two types of performance (i.e. perceptions of individual and team performance)....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand how the individual difference of other orientation affects the rational calculation between team input and anticipated performance. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from 222 junior and senior level undergraduate business...

Purpose – This paper aims to focus on identifying various human enablers that could influence the performance of a firm using advanced manufacturing systems (AMSs), and to develop a framework to manage them through an analytical case study. Design/methodology/approach – In this work, digraph...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test a model of the effects of intragroup conflict (relationship conflict, task conflict and process conflict), past performance feedback and perceptions of team decision‐making effectiveness on team performance and affective responses....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on new research that explores the effect of co‐worker friendship and performance norms on the Köhler motivation gain effect. Design/methodology/approach – Females worked at a motor persistence task with either a more capable coactor or with...

Purpose – This study seeks to explore why some teams realize performance gains and others do not. Team identification is proposed as an explanatory mechanism of performance. Design/methodology/approach – Data from two longitudinal studies with 42 teams (270 individuals) are examined using...

Managers working in multinational companies carry out their organizational goals through multicultural teams. Performance of multicultural teams can be examined from an intercultural communication perspective. Executives, managers, management consultants, and educators interested in improving...

Purpose – The purpose of this editorial is to introduce the special issue on the relationship of strategic performance management to team strategy, company performance and organizational effectiveness. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explains each of the components in this...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to document the progress made in a specified period and the experience of managers and staff in sustaining the high performance team approach in a plastics factory. Design/methodology/approach – Single‐case analysis was conducted on data collected...