1,358 research outputs found
Tenure matters for team cohesion and performance: The moderating role of trust in the coach
Research question: This study examines team performance as a function of team tenure, cohesion and trust in the coach. Specifically, we propose a moderated-mediation model to explain whether it translates into an objective measure of future team performance.
Research methods: The study sample consists of 668 players from 73 professional and top amateur basketball league teams in Catalonia, Spain. Data collection consisted of a survey performed during a regular training session held at the beginning of the second part of the season as well as objective and subjective team performance indicators.
Results and findings: Our findings suggest that the indirect effect of team tenure on performance through team cohesion is only significant for high and medium levels of cognitive trust in the coach and low levels of affective trust in the coach.
Implications: These findings provide evidence that explains trust’s contribution to fostering team dynamics and how team tenure translates into future team performance. The practical implications of this study suggest that simply promoting team cohesion without taking into account the cognitive trust in the coach will not necessarily increase performance. Therefore, coaches and managers must invest in the amount of work they do with team
members and their skills in order to ensure team members have high cognitive trust in them.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio
Transformational leadership and team performance in sports teams: A conditional indirect model
This study tests how transformational leadership fosters
team performance through team cohesion and
how that relationship is moderated by previous team
performance and leadership consensus. We computed
a moderated-mediation model based on a sample of
690 professional players in 59 top professional teams in
interactive team sports leagues (basketball, handball,
roller hockey, and indoor football/soccer) in Spain. Our
findings suggest that transformational leadership indirectly
influences objective team performance through
the mediation role of team cohesion and that this indirect
effect is more prominent when the level of previous
performance is higher. We also found that the
indirect effect of transformational leadership on team
performance via cohesion is stronger in teams with
higher consensus regarding their coaches' leadership.
Overall, our results demonstrate the importance of
integrating dispersion and contextual variables into
research models, in particular, previous performance
and leadership consensus.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Networking to death: On the dark side of start-ups’ external networking
Purpose – Many start-ups do not survive the first few years of business. Previous studies suggest that
networks play a role in start-ups’ success, but this positive effect has limits. The purpose of this paper is to
answer the call for a better understanding of the dark side of networks and the variables that condition
variables’ effect on the likelihood of start-ups’ survival.
Design/methodology/approach –Alongitudinal research design includes 139 start-ups (102 from Germany
and 37 from Portugal) and a total of 252 participants. A generalized linear mixed model (GLMM)was applied to
estimate all the coefficients, to test the mediation (H1), the moderation (H2) and the moderated mediation (H3)
while considering the economic situation of the start-up (sales growth), start-ups’ networking behavior,
creativity orientation and ultimately the likelihood of survival.
Findings – Based on an empirical study from two different countries, the results show that effective
networking is contingent on the start-up’s economic situation and creative potential. Specifically, the results
point to situations in which early sales growth may lead to external networking, which, in contexts of low
creativity-oriented start-ups, can compromise the start-ups’ success.
Originality/value – Based on the findings, the authors compare scenarios in which networking increases the
chances for start-up survival with situations where networking can have adverse effects. This study highlights
the importance of considering specific start-up parameters, such as start-ups’ economic situation and level of
creativity orientation, in the business venturing literature.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Whale sharks as oceanic nurseries for Golden Trevally
The Golden Trevally, Gnathanodon speciosus, is a large predatory fish with an extremely broad tropical Indo-Pacific distribution that crosses many biogeographical boundaries. Both published information and freely available imagery suggest that small juvenile G. speciosus are often associated with whale sharks, Rhincodon typus; an association that could explain the unusually widespread distribution of G. speciosus, and suggests a novel nursery relationship. The possibility of such an association has the potential to reshape our understanding of the ecological roles played by long-range migrants such as R. typus and other megafauna, our understanding of the full extent of their conservation value, and how we manage both members of the relationship
Instalações para manutenção e desenvolvimento de matrizes de Batata-doce com alta sanidade.
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Morfologia do pólen de pessegueiro (Prunus persica) obtida pela utilização de microscopia eletrônica de varredura.
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Efeito dos Moduladores de MDR em Linhas Celulares de Adenocarcinoma Colo-Rectal
Resumo da comunicação apresentado ao XII Congresso Nacional de Medicina Nuclear, 12-14 Novembro 2009, Mealhad
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