Built to Change: High-Performance Work Systems and Self-Directed Work Teams – A Longitudinal Quasi-Experimental Field Study

The Collaborative Network Orientation: Achieving Business Success through Collaborative Relationships

“…Between 1996 and 2005, the SIO-R was used to gather data from organizational business units from the United States and Canada. Results from the SIO-R are forthcoming in Research in Organizational Change (Macy, Farias, Rosa, & Moore, 2007). Two items each addressed family members, employees, and customers, which had wording similar to the following: "To what extent does your business actively solicit input from employees?"…”

“…Source: The format and stem for these items were adopted from the Texas Center's Survey of Innovative Organizations-Revised (1996, Texas Tech University (see Macy et al, 2007;Macy & Moore, 2004). The items themselves were original to the Survey of Family Business.…”

The influence of learning behaviour on team adaptability

“…According to Macy et al (2006), S-A team members perform "between 5-7 multi-skilled tasks….. [including]…. 5-7 different formalized leadership roles" (p.18), while some supervision is evident from time to time.…”

“…conflict, leadership) in team design and performance is scarce (O'Connell et al, 2002;Stewart, 2006). There is an expectation that S-A teams will more likely adopt better team learning when influenced by flexible structures, systems and processes (Macy et al, 2006), enabling them to more effectively deal with problems that are imposed by different contexts. While the traditional approaches to team effectiveness have focused on improving team performance (Nieva et al, 1978;Hackman and Walton, 1986;Kirkman and Rosen, 2000;Peelle, 2006), how to achieve social and group cohesion (Trist and Bamforth, 1951;Janis, 1972) and methods to improve team effectiveness (Steiner, 1972;Hackman and Oldham, 1980;Jordan et al, 2002), (among others), there has been a relative lack of attention on how to develop improved TA through superior learning behaviour.…”

“…For example, Bunderson and Sutcliffe note that there has been "no direct attempts to examine the relationship between a team's learning orientation and teamlevel performance outcomes" (Bunderson and Sutcliffe, 2003, p.553), and there is a paucity of research linking learning to context. The relationship between learning and team performance in semi-autonomous teams has been restricted to a meta-analysis by Macy et al (2006) and contextual studies are scarce.…”