A STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG TEAM FAULTLINE, TEAM TRUST AND TEAM KNOWLEDGE SHARING

With rapidly changing societies and globalization, it is more and more common that corporations manipulate their team environments for flexibility and creativity. An organization's creativity stems from knowledge sharing between individuals; however, when the diversity of a team increases, as i...

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Published inCommerce & Management Quarterly Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 147 - 183
Main Authors Chen, Ming-Shiun, Yu, Shu-Ping
Format Journal Article
LanguageChinese
Published Taipei Chinese Association of Business & Management Technology 01.06.2021
Subjects
Creativity
Employee empowerment
Information sharing
Knowledge sharing
Teams
Teamwork
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Summary:With rapidly changing societies and globalization, it is more and more common that corporations manipulate their team environments for flexibility and creativity. An organization's creativity stems from knowledge sharing between individuals; however, when the diversity of a team increases, as is common in recent years, individuals tend to form subgroups, which hinders communication. These situations, according to Lau and Murnighan (1998), are known as faultlines, which depend on the alignment of individual members' characteristics. Although team diversity is a potential source of creativity, the occurrence of faultlines within a team may result in trust and relationship problems and reduced knowledge sharing. In this study, questionnaires were issued to a total of 51 teams, including 265 individuals, from different organizations. The PLS (Partial Least Squares) method was used to analyze the data and confirm the hypotheses. The findings of this study reveal that: (1) The strength of faultlines based on demogr
ISSN:1994-8107