Power and Status in Groups

Perry, Jamie L.

doi:10.5465/ambpp.2015.17028abstract

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“…They coined the term hierarchy mutability to describe the extent to which the basis for the team’s hierarchy allowed for the opportunity for upward mobility. We coded a team’s hierarchy mutability as “low” (1) when team members were unlikely to be able to change their position in the team hierarchy, such as in the teams of medical clinic nurses examined by Perry (2014), in which job positions are generally stable. Teams were coded as “moderate” (3) when team members had some potential to change their position in the hierarchy, such as the production teams examined by Bunderson (2003) which allowed for some potential in the change of the hierarchical ranking of members.…”

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Why and when hierarchy impacts team effectiveness: A meta-analytic integration.

Greer

Jong

Schouten

et al. 2018

Journal of Applied Psychology

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Hierarchy has the potential to both benefit and harm team effectiveness. In this article, we meta-analytically investigate different explanations for why and when hierarchy helps or hurts team effectiveness, drawing on results from 54 prior studies (N = 13,914 teams). Our findings show that, on net, hierarchy negatively impacts team effectiveness (performance: ρ = -.08; viability: ρ = -.11), and that this effect is mediated by increased conflict-enabling states. Additionally, we show that the negative relationship between hierarchy and team performance is exacerbated by aspects of the team structure (i.e., membership instability, skill differentiation) and the hierarchy itself (i.e., mutability), which make hierarchical teams prone to conflict. The predictions regarding the positive effect of hierarchy on team performance as mediated by coordination-enabling processes, and the moderating roles of several aspects of team tasks (i.e., interdependence, complexity) and the hierarchy (i.e., form) were not supported, with the exception that task ambiguity enhanced the positive effects of hierarchy. Given that our findings largely support dysfunctional views on hierarchy, future research is needed to understand when and why hierarchy may be more likely to live up to its purported functional benefits. (PsycINFO Database Record

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