The Impact of Task Skill and Team Familiarity on Shared Knowledge and Collective Efficacy

Abstract

In this paper we addressed one aspect of team cognition, namely shared knowledge, and investigated the relationship between shared knowledge and collective efficacy. The task was doubles tennis; participants were 160 adults, for a total of 80 teams. Data was collected via self-report questionnaires. As we had suspected, there was a strong, positive relationship between collective efficacy and shared knowledge (r = .5, p < .05). Using hierarchical regression, we also found that team familiarity was positively related to shared knowledge, while both task skill and team familiarity were positively related to collective efficacy

Research on the relationship between collective teacher efficacy and teaching innovation as a mediator

“…Collective teacher efficacy has a significant and positive impact on knowledge sharing. This is consistent with the results of Reynolds and Blickensderfer [24]. The collective teacher efficacy is the sum of the beliefs of individual teachers about their collective abilities and this assessment of collective abilities affects their course of action and effort in pursuit of goals [17].…”

“…Scholars have discussed the relationship between individual self-efficacy and knowledge sharing but there are few studies on the relationship between collective efficacy and knowledge sharing. Reynolds and Blickensderfer [24] investigated the data of 160 adults playing tennis in pairs and found that there was a significant positive relationship between collective efficacy and knowledge sharing because team cognition is not simply the sum of the cognitions of individual members, researchers need to further verify the relationship between collective effectiveness and knowledge sharing. Thus, we propose our second research hypothesis as follows:…”

“…As a process of metacognitive processing in the process of generating collective efficacy, team members evaluate the relationship between their abilities and the tasks they face according to the sources of efficacy belief-shaping information and then take certain actions [32]. To handle difficult tasks and achieve goals, collective-level cognition requires all members to share some tasks and team cooperation knowledge learned from task experience and team familiarity [24] because knowledge is carried by individuals, it needs to be shared among team members to establish new procedures and mental processes that help them solve problems [33]. Knowledge sharing can provide a more effective way to solve problems through formal channels and the exchange of invisible knowledge, thereby improving and accelerating the generation of innovation [34].…”