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Team Efficacy

Definition

'"Individual team member's belief and confidence that the team can mobilize its resources for successful task performance." (Chan 1998, p. 238)

Key References 

  • Chan, D. (1998). Functional Relations Among Constructs in the Same Content Domain at Different Levels of Analysis: A Typology of Composition Models. Journal of Applied Psychology, 83(2), 234–246. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.83.2.234 
    • Defines team efficacy and identifies multiple models of how team and indivdiual constructs can be connected
  • Jex, S. M., & Bliese, P. D. (1999). Efficacy beliefs as a moderator of the impact of work-related stressors: A multilevel study. Journal of Applied Psychology, 84(3), 349–361. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.84.3.349 
    • Compared the mitigating effects of self-versus collective efficacy on the positive relationship between work stress and psychological strain.
  • Gully, S. M., Incalcaterra, K. A., Joshi, A., & Beaubien, J. M. (2002). A meta-analysis of team-efficacy, potency, and performance: Interdependence and level of analysis as moderators of observed relationships. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87(5), 819–832.https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.87.5.819 
    • Meta-analysis, highlighted that the lens through which team effiacy is analyzed (indivdiual or group) effects the magnitiude of the resulting relationship with performance.

Key Measurements

  • Riggs et al. 1994, Collective Efficacy Belifs Scale, 7 item survey
    • Riggs, M. L., Warka, J., Babasa, B., Betancourt, R. M., & Hooker, S. (1994). Development and validation of Self-Efficacy and Outcome Expectancy scales for Job-Related applications. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 54(3), 793–802. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013164494054003026

Recent Articles 

  • Lin, C.-P., Baruch, Y., & Shih, W.-C. (2011). Corporate Social Responsibility and Team Performance: The mediating role of team efficacy and team self-esteem. Journal of Business Ethics, 108(2), 167–180. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-011-1068-6
    • Found that economic citizenship affects team performance through the mediation of team efficacy and self-esteem.
  • Yin, J., Ma, Z., Yu, H., Jia, M., & Liao, G. (2019). Transformational leadership and employee knowledge sharing: Explore the mediating roles of Psychological Safety and team efficacy. Journal of Knowledge Management, 24(2), 150–171. https://doi.org/10.1108/jkm-12-2018-0776
    • Explores the impact of transofrmation leadership in knowledge sharing and how team efficacy mediates this relationship.
  • Martin, S. R., Emich, K. J., McClean, E. J., & Woodruff, Col. T. (2021). Keeping teams together: How ethical leadership moderates the effects of performance on team efficacy and Social Integration. Journal of Business Ethics, 176(1), 127–139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04685-0
    • Argues that ethical leadership moderates team efficacy beliefs and team perfornance.