Applying sequence methods to the study of team temporal dynamics

Herndon, Benjamin; Lewis, Kyle

doi:10.1177/2041386614538276

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“…Thus in future work the time dispersion (or temporal patterning) and the positional distribution could be jointly investigated using sequence methods (Herndon & Lewis, 2015) among other methodologies.…”

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Viewing team selection through a temporal lens

Pinto

2017

Organizational Psychology Review

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This paper builds synthesized coherence (Locke & Golden-Biddle, 1997) across disciplines such as organizational behavior, personnel psychology, entrepreneurship, project management, and strategic management by developing a temporal team selection framework that delineates three temporal team selection processes (i.e., simultaneous selection, sequential selection, and substitution selection). Of these three processes, sequential selection, which could either be constraint-driven or coevolution-driven, is a new conceptualization. This framework speaks to the broader research stream on membership dynamics, and therefore its key constructs such as arithmetic of membership change (Arrow & McGrath, 1993) and temporal patterning of membership change (Arrow & McGrath, 1993) have been systematically applied to the temporal team selection processes. Finally, the implications of this theorizing for both research and practice are discussed.

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“…Once again, the impact on coordination and team performance of various combinations of coreness (i.e. core or peripheral) and tenure (i.e., long or short) could be investigated using sequence methods (Herndon & Lewis, 2015).…”

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Viewing team selection through a temporal lens

Pinto

2017

Organizational Psychology Review

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“…To identify such patterns, we rely on lag sequential analysis, an innovative approach that is particularly suitable for capturing dynamic group processes (Herndon & Lewis, 2015). Sequential analysis allows us to quantify meaningful behavioral transitions or sequences.…”

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Well, Now What Do We Do? Wait . . .: A Group Process Analysis of Meeting Lateness

Lehmann‐Willenbrock

Allen

2017

International Journal of Business Communication

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Workplace meetings start late all the time for a number of reasons. When participants are kept waiting, this can be experienced as a drain of personal resources. In this article, we integrate perspectives from conservation of resources theory, individual goal setting, group problem solving, and temporal dynamics to derive predictions regarding individual attendees’ meeting experiences and behavioral group communication patterns under conditions of meeting lateness. We conducted an experiment using 32 student groups in which 16 groups started their meeting on time, while 16 started their meeting 10 minutes late. We found that late meetings were less satisfying than on time meetings. Using videotaped meeting interactions, we analyzed the group dynamics at the micro-level of conversational utterances. Controlling for meeting duration, groups in the lateness condition showed substantially less solution-focused communication overall, less idea elaboration, less in-depth problem descriptions, and fewer socioemotional support statements than groups who started on time. Furthermore, lag sequential analysis revealed distinctly different temporal communication patterns. We discuss research implications for understanding meeting experiences through a conservation of resources lens as well as practical implications for managing group communication processes in workplace meetings.

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“…Methodological advances in team research have attempted to remedy such issues by incorporating the notion of process through analyzing temporal events. Recent studies have proposed using sequence methods for analyzing team trajectories (Herndon & Lewis, ) and determining behavioral propensities based on patterns of events (Leenders, Contractor, & DeChurch, ; Pilny, Schecter, Poole, & Contractor, ). Leenders et al () specifically delineate the advantages of using such an approach, arguing that methods built on bottom‐up emergence eliminate many of the assumptions inherent in prior team research.…”

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Step by step: Capturing the dynamics of work team process through relational event sequences

Schecter

Pilny

Leung³

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J Organ Behavior

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The emergence of group constructs is an unfolding process, whereby actions and interactions coalesce into collective psychological states. Implicitly, there is a connection between these states and the underlying procession of events. The manner in which interactions follow one another over time describe a group's behavior, with different temporal patterns being indicative of different team characteristics. In this study, we explicitly connect event sequences to the process of emergence. We argue that the temporal relationship between events in a sequence will vary depending on the team's psychological outcome. Further, certain patterns of behavior will be repeated at different rates in teams with varying emergent states. To support this approach, we apply a statistical methodology-relational event modeling-for analyzing sequences of interactions that builds on the foundation of social network analysis. Using a dataset comprised of 55 work teams of military personnel engaged in a tactical scenario, we found that individuals who perceived team process (regarding coordination and information sharing) as having different qualities engaged in significantly different patterns of behavior. Our findings indicate that individuals who had a positive perception of process quality were more likely to initiate communication events in a reciprocal, transitive, and decentralized fashion.

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Applying sequence methods to the study of team temporal dynamics

Cited by 28 publications

References 47 publications

Viewing team selection through a temporal lens

Viewing team selection through a temporal lens

Well, Now What Do We Do? Wait . . .: A Group Process Analysis of Meeting Lateness

Step by step: Capturing the dynamics of work team process through relational event sequences

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