摘要
Purpose:This study sought to examine the relationship between team task features and team task performance.Team task performance revolved around the team's technical knowledge and the technical core activities of the organization.On the other hand,team task characteristics include task identity,task significance,and task interdependence.Methods:This study involved a total of 300 nursing teams(1436 individual nurses)from seven state hospitals in Peninsular Malaysia.Data were collected using two sets of questionnaires which were initially distributed to 320 teams.One set was given to the team members and another set was given to the team leaders.Of the 320 sets sent out,300 sets were returned.Responses were then combined and aggregated to the team level to get the team's final score.Analyses of the hypotheses were done using Partial Least Squares(PLS)through assessment of the measurement and structural model.Results:Results from the path analysis revealed that of the three dimensions of team task attributes,only task significance was positively and significantly related to team task performance(β=0.076,P>0.05),while task identity(β=0.076,P>0.05)and task interdependence(β=-0.037,P>0.05)were found unrelated to team task performance.Conclusions:This study demonstrated that task significance is important to predict team task performance.Task significance reflects meaningfulness and nobility of tasks,thus elevate the desire to perform better in each assigned task.
目的本研究旨在探讨团队任务特征与团队任务绩效的关系。团队任务绩效是围绕着团队的技术知识和组织的技术核心。另一方面,团队任务特征包括任务的同一性、任务的重要性和任务的相互依赖性。方法本研究从马来西亚半岛的7个州医院选取了300个护理团队(1436名护士)。在320个团队中发放了两套问卷进行数据收集。一套发放给团队成员,另一套发放给团队领导者。最后有300个团队的成员和领导者均完成问卷,合并每个团队成员和领导者的数据并汇总到各团队层面,以获得各团队的最终得分。采用偏最小二乘法,通过评估测量法和结构模型进行假设检验。结果路径分析结果显示,团队任务特征属性的3个维度中,只有任务的重要性与团队任务绩效呈正相关(β=0.1967,P<0.01),而任务的同一性(β=0.076,P>0.05)和任务的相互依赖性(β=-0.037,P>0.05)与团队任务绩效没有显示相关性。结论本研究表明,任务的重要性对预.测团队任务绩效很重要。任务的重要性体现了任务的意义和崇高,进而提高护理团队在每个分配的任务中有更好表现的渴望。
