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The Effect of Team Affective Tone on Team Performance: The Roles of Team Identification and Team Cooperation
Author(s) -
Lin ChiehPeng,
He Hongwei,
Baruch Yehuda,
Ashforth Blake E.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
human resource management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.888
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1099-050X
pISSN - 0090-4848
DOI - 10.1002/hrm.21810
Subject(s) - team effectiveness , team composition , identification (biology) , affect (linguistics) , psychology , psychological safety , tone (literature) , social identity theory , team leader , teamwork , team management , virtual team , applied psychology , social psychology , knowledge management , management , social group , computer science , communication , art , botany , literature , economics , biology
Affective tones abound in work teams. Drawing on the affect infusion model and social identity theory, this study proposes that team affective tone is related to team performance indirectly through team identification and team cooperation. Data from 141 hybrid‐virtual teams drawn from high‐tech companies in Taiwan generally supported our model. Specifically, positive affective tone is positively associated—while negative affective tone is negatively associated—with both team identification and team cooperation; team identification is positively associated with team cooperation; and team cooperation is positively associated with team performance. Managerial implications and limitations are discussed. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.