The Relation with Shared Cognition for Knowledge Worker and Team Effectiveness

지식근로자의 공유인지와 팀 효과성의 관계

  • 임희정 (이화여자대학교 경영학부) ;
  • 강혜련 (이화여자대학교 경영학부)
  • Received : 2005.04.26
  • Accepted : 2005.12.07
  • Published : 2005.12.01

Abstract

Attention has been focused recently on the concept of shared cognition which encompasses the notion that effective team members hold knowledge that is overlapping and complementary with teammates. This shared cognition is expected to improve team effectiveness. In contrast to the continued efforts in developing theoretical approach of shared cognition, empirical studies are meager. Thus, we conducted an empirical study to investigate the role of shared cognition on team effectiveness. This study classifies shared cognition into two types, team mental model and transactive memory system, by shared meaning. A total of 121 new product development teams in the IT industry were surveyed for the data collection. The results of analysis can be summarized as follows: first, team mental model has a positive influence on team performance, team innovative behavior and team learning effect. And the relation with team mental model and team performance is moderated by the similarity of knowledge structure among the expert. Second, transactive memory system has a positive influence on team performance, team innovative behavior and team learning effect.

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