Do you see what I see? The effect of members¡¯ cognitive styles on team processes and errors in task execution

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• 作者：Ishani Aggarwal ; Anita Williams Woolley
• 关键词：Team performance ; Cognitive diversity ; Cognitive style ; Strategic focus ; Strategic consensus ; Errors
• 刊名：Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：September, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：122
• 期：1
• 页码：92-99
• 全文大小：367 K

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This research investigates the effect of members¡¯ cognitive styles on team processes that affect errors in execution tasks. In two laboratory studies, we investigated how a team¡¯s composition (members¡¯ cognitive styles related to object and spatial visualization) affects the team¡¯s strategic focus and strategic consensus, and how those affect the team¡¯s commission of errors. Study 1, conducted with 70 dyads performing a navigation and identification task, established that teams high in spatial visualization are more process-focused than teams high in object visualization. Process focus, which pertains to a team¡¯s attention to the details of conducting a task, is associated with fewer errors. Study 2, conducted with 64 teams performing a building task, established that heterogeneity in cognitive style is negatively associated with the formation of a strategic consensus, which has a direct and mediating relationship with errors.