Typology of Performance in Teams: The Structure of Team Effectiveness and Dysfunction

Pezer, Leah

Typology of Performance in Teams: The Structure of Team Effectiveness and Dysfunction

dc.contributor.advisor	O'Neill, Thomas
dc.contributor.author	Pezer, Leah
dc.contributor.committeemember	Chapman, Derek
dc.contributor.committeemember	Gevers, Josette
dc.contributor.committeemember	Park, Junho
dc.contributor.committeemember	Turner, Nick
dc.contributor.committeemember	O'Neill, Thomas
dc.date	2025-02
dc.date.accessioned	2025-01-20T21:32:58Z
dc.date.available	2025-01-20T21:32:58Z
dc.date.issued	2025-01-18
dc.description.abstract	Effective team effectiveness is critical for organizations seeking to thrive in a competitive and dynamic environment, where collaborative efforts are increasingly integral to achieving strategic goals. While it is commonly believed that teamwork is on a spectrum of good to bad in team effectiveness criteria such as performance, viability, and well-being, this assumption has not been thoroughly tested. Questions remain about how these three outcomes interact and relate to each other, and whether there are trade-offs among these outcomes, such as high team performance at the cost of individual well-being. This study was conducted to explore these complexities by shifting the focus from viewing team effectiveness as a single, continuous outcome to examining distinct patterns of effectiveness within teams, where various outcomes coexist and influence each other. Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) was used to test five hypothesized team effectiveness profiles, followed by Multiple Logistic Regression (MLR) to examine how team conditions relate to profile membership. The analysis identified five distinct profiles: Thriving, Striving, Mediocre, Groupy, and Surviving, each showing unique patterns in Performance, Viability, and Well-being. The MLR results had one significant result, indicating 'Purpose' was more likely to belong to the highly effective (i.e., Thriving) profile compared to Mediocre teams. This research contributes to our understanding of team effectiveness by 1) challenging the traditional approach of examining team outcomes separately, proposing instead that these outcomes are multidimensional and interconnected, 2) building on the growing body of person-centered research in the teams literature, and 3) introducing a new taxonomy of team types, offering a practical framework for organizations to classify teams and enhance team effectiveness through targeted strategies.
dc.identifier.citation	Pezer, L. (2025). Typology of performance in teams: the structure of team effectiveness and dysfunction (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1880/120547
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher.faculty	Graduate Studies
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary
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dc.subject	field research
dc.subject	latent profile analysis
dc.subject	multiple logistic regression
dc.subject	organizational research
dc.subject	organizational teams
dc.subject	teams
dc.subject	person-centered research
dc.subject	performance
dc.subject	team-centered research
dc.subject	team dynamics
dc.subject	team effectiveness
dc.subject	team profiles
dc.subject	viability
dc.subject	well-being
dc.subject.classification	Business Administration--Management
dc.subject.classification	Psychology--Industrial
dc.title	Typology of Performance in Teams: The Structure of Team Effectiveness and Dysfunction
dc.type	doctoral thesis
thesis.degree.discipline	Psychology
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
ucalgary.thesis.accesssetbystudent	I do not require a thesis withhold – my thesis will have open access and can be viewed and downloaded publicly as soon as possible.