DeChurch, L. Randall, K & Resick, C.
(2011). Building team adaptive capacity: the roles of sensegiving and team
composition. Journal of applied
psychology. Vol. 96. No. 3 525-540
In this article, DeChurch, Randall and
Resick believes that strategy adaption is an important form of adaption for
teams, so they launched a research to exam the function of strategy mental
model. According to them, strategy mental model is the understanding of
strategic priority, trade-offs relations among alternatives and implication of
decisions. With strategy mental model, people can strategically evaluate the
environment for adjusting their behaviors to perform well, which is also
defined as strategy adaption. They find out structured strategy-focused
knowledge and communication can help team to deal with disruptions effectively
by adapting strategies. This finding has
several critical implications. First, when the team has some members whose
value is collectivism, those people are likely to communicate effectively with
their teammates. When teams have members who have high-level cognitive ability,
they also tend to share the information effectively. Secondly, if leaders get
trained properly, they can help the team to deal with disruptions (contingency)
by a process called sensengiving that is a process trying to impact the
environment towards the goal that the leader holds.
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