An examination of the cohesion‐performance relationship in university hockey teams

Slater, Mark; Sewell, D. F.

doi:10.1080/02640419408732192

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“…Some studies have addressed the connection between cohesion and performance in a variety of interactive sports. Slater and Sewell (1994), for example, measured team cohesion in hockey teams at different points of the season. They concluded that cohesiveness and success were mutually dependent and that the cohesion-performance relationship should be examined by means of a circular model in which cohesion and performance are interdependent.…”

Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The differential effect of team members' trust on team performance: The mediation role of team cohesion

Mach

Dolan

Tzafrir

2010

J Occupat & Organ Psyc

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This study examines team performance as affected by various trusting relationships: trust between team members and the team's trust in their direct manager and in top management. Data for the study were collected from a survey of 690 professional elite athletes (belonging to 59 different sports clubs) playing in the regular, top professional Spanish leagues. The model was tested at the team level. Findings reveal that team member trust with respect to the different foci has both a direct and indirect effect on team performance, and that team player trust and cohesion play a mediating role. This study illustrates the dynamic relationship within teams, and, as such, trust among teammates mediates the relationship between trust in the coach as well as team cohesion in determining team performance. The implications for managing teams in other contexts are also evaluated.

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Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The differential effect of team members' trust on team performance: The mediation role of team cohesion

Mach

Dolan

Tzafrir

2010

J Occupat & Organ Psyc

181

113

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“…Cohesion and performance are interlinked as discovered by several researchers -Carron et al [31] found that there is "a significant circular relationship between cohesion and performance". Others such as Slater and Sewell [32] and Gould, Guinan, Greenleaf [33] concluded the presence of same "circular relationship between cohesion and performance".…”

Section: Cohesionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Software Project Management as Team Building Intervention

Shaikh

Raza

Ahsan

2016

J. Basic Appl. Sci.

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The courses of software project management (SPM) and Software engineering (SE) are regularly taught at undergraduate degree program in computer science. Students of these programs also have to undertake projects as part of various courses during their degree program. The purpose of this research is to assess whether the software engineering or the software project management course had enhanced the cohesion among team members while undertaking a six month or a year-long project. The teaching of these two courses is considered as a team building intervention in this research. A total of 167 students returned a modified version of Group Environment Questionnaire distributed to 200 students. Off these, 81 were those who had taken the SE course and subsequently did a project before they had taken SPM course. The rest of the students (85) consisted of those who had taken SPM and had undertaken final project. The results of this paper indicates that the SPM as compared to SE as a team building intervention had a better effect on team cohesion. The paper has successfully identified a single course that can enhance the performance of students as a team in contrast to proposing all the courses taught at the undergraduate computer science degree program as intervention for better team building and team work as proposed by Hogan & Thomas, 2005.

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“…synchronous, reversed or unrelated), we first used correlation analysis (Slater and Sewell 1994). Pearson correlation coefficients were computed for the pairs of variables Su-e/ ATG-T, Su-e/GI-T and ATG-T/GI-T. To go beyond a global characteristic of the relationships between Su-e, ATG-T and GI-T and to focalise on the relational patterns that shape Su-e and each task-cohesion time series data, we explored the temporal stability of the specific relationships that organise Su-e and ATG-T on one hand, and Su-e and GI-T on the other hand.…”

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Fluctuations of the experience of togetherness within the team over time: task-cohesion and shared understanding throughout a sporting regular season

Bourbousson

Fortes-Bourbousson

2016

Ergonomics

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Based on a diagnosis action research design, the present study assessed the fluctuations of the team experience of togetherness. Reported experiences of 12 basketball team members playing in the under-18 years old national championship were studied during a four-month training and competitive period. Time series analysis (Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average procedures) served to describe temporal properties of the way in which the fluctuations of task-cohesion and shared understanding were step-by-step experienced over time, respectively. Correlations, running-correlations and cross-lagged correlations were used to describe the temporal links that governed the relationships between both phenomena. The results indicated that the task-cohesion dimensions differed mainly for shared understanding dynamics in that their time fluctuations were not embedded in external events, and that the variations in shared understanding tend to precede 'individual attractions to the task' variations with seven team practical sessions. This study argues for further investigation of how 'togetherness' is experienced alternatively as a feeling of cohesion or shared understanding. Practitioner Summary: The present action research study investigated the experience that the team members have to share information during practice, and the subsequent benefices on team cohesion. Results call for specific interventions that make team members accept the fluctuating nature of team phenomena, to help them maintaining their daily efforts.

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An examination of the cohesion‐performance relationship in university hockey teams

Cited by 21 publications

References 23 publications

The differential effect of team members' trust on team performance: The mediation role of team cohesion

The differential effect of team members' trust on team performance: The mediation role of team cohesion

Software Project Management as Team Building Intervention

Fluctuations of the experience of togetherness within the team over time: task-cohesion and shared understanding throughout a sporting regular season

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