Over the last 10 to 15 years, the use of work teams has proliferated around the globe. In order to better understand what makes teams effective in a variety of countries, Bradley L. Kirkman, Cristina B. Gibson, and Debra L. Shapiro examined the role that national culture plays in determining employee receptivity to the implementation of self-managing work teams (SMWTs).
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The Impact of Time Perspective on Knowledge Creation in Teams
This paper by Mary J. Waller, Cristina B. Gibson, and Mason A. Carpenter focuses on the impact of individuals’ time perspectives on team knowledge creation. Various configurations of time perspective among team members are likely to exert significant but unacknowledged influences on teams’ knowledge creation efforts.
Time Flies Like an Arrow: Tracing Antecedents and Consequences of Temporal Elements of Organizational Culture
Mary E. Zellmer-Bruhn, Cristina B. Gibson, and Ramon J. Aldag state that time has recently become a more central focus in management research and practice. Time to market has become a critical issue in many industries, with ever shortening new product development times.
Perceptual Distance: The Impact of Differences in Team Leader and Member Perceptions Across Cultures
In this chapter, C. Gibson, J. Conger, and C. Cooper propose a theory of perceptual distance and its implications for team leadership and team outcomes.
Me and Us: Differential Relationships Among Goal Setting Training, Efficacy and Effectiveness at the Individual and Team Level
In this paper by Cristina B. Gibson, efficacy-effectiveness relationships were examined for individual nurses and nursing teams who were either trained or untrained in goal-setting.
When Does Culture Matter?
Past research has shown that national culture does matter- it affects people’s behavior- but research has left open the question of when culture matters. Martha L. Maznevski, Cristina B. Gibson, and Bradley L. Kirkman examine culture’s effects on four types of individual outcomes, and propose moderators at three levels of analysis.
Linking Diversity and Effectiveness: The Relationship Between Cultural Diversity and Organizational Outcomes
This report by Cristina B. Gibson is the first step in a program of research concerning the impact of diversity.
Metaphors and Meaning: An Intercultural Analysis of the Concept of Teamwork
This paper by Cristina B. Gibson and Mary E. Zellmer-Bruhn develops a conceptual framework to explain variance in the concept of teamwork across national and organizational cultures.
Inter-Team Transfer of Knowledge: An Exploratory Study of the Facilitators and Impediments to Sharing Practices Between Teams
Mary E. Zellmer-Bruhn and Cristina B. Gibson investigate facilitators and impediments to inter-team transfer of practices using qualitative analysis of multinational interviews and review of literature.
The Impact of Team Level Strategic Context on Team Process Innovation
In this study, Mary E. Zellmer-Bruhn and Cristina B. Gibson apply the concept of strategic context (Prahalad & Doz, 1987; Schulz & Jobe, 1997) to the team level and examine how team strategic context relates to team process innovativeness.
Do They Do What They Believe They Can? Group-Efficacy and Group Effectiveness Across Tasks and Cultures
Cristina B. Gibson discusses group-efficacy, a group’s belief regarding its ability to perform effectively. It is argued that group-efficacy effects are complex and moderated by several contingency factors.
Our Past, Present, and Future in Teams: The Role of Human Resource Professionals in Managing Team Performance Across Cultures
Cristina B. Gibson and Bradley L. Kirkman discuss how the majority of Fortune 1000 employees have been affected by the widespread proliferation of work teams.