Research Article Electronic Media Variety and Virtual Team Performance: The Mediating Role of Task Complexity Coping Mechanisms

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Kock ◽  
G. S. Lynn
Keyword(s):  
Team Performance ◽  
Task Complexity ◽  
Virtual Team ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Research Article

scholarly journals Satisfaction with Life: Mediating Role in the Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Coping Mechanisms

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 787
Author(s):  
Daniela Almeida ◽  
Diogo Monteiro ◽  
Filipe Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Significant Positive Association ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to analyze the mediating role of life satisfaction in the relationship between fourteen coping strategies and depressive symptoms in the Portuguese population. To undertake this work, 313 Portuguese adults aged 18 to 70 years (M = 30.73; SD = 10.79) were invited to participate in this study. Their participation was completely voluntary, and participants granted and signed informed consent previously to the filling of the validated Portuguese questionnaires. These questionnaires measured depressive symptoms, coping, and life satisfaction. The results revealed that life satisfaction displayed a mediating role in the relationship between adaptive coping mechanisms, specifically between active coping, planning, reinterpretation, and acceptance and depressive symptoms, showing a negative and significant indirect effect. Maladaptive coping mechanisms of self-blame, denial, self-distraction, disengagement, and substance use had a significant positive association with depressive symptoms, considering the mediating role of satisfaction with life. Current investigation provides initial evidence of how each coping mechanism is associated with satisfaction with life and depressive symptoms. This study clearly demonstrates that not all coping strategies are capable of influencing well-being indicators and that health professionals should focus on endorsing those that are significantly associated with lowering depressive symptoms and increasing overall satisfaction with life.

scholarly journals Coping strategies as mediators in the relationship between test anxiety and academic achievement

Psihologija ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Genc
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
German Studies ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Novi Sad ◽  
The University ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Relationship

In most modern societies, nearly every realm of life involves some form of evaluation of our knowledge, abilities and skills. Given the potentially significant consequences of exams, it is not surprising that they are often very stressful. This study aimed to determine the existence and nature of the relationships between level of test anxiety, coping strategies, and achieved success on a mid-term test. As well as examining the direct relations between the given variables, our primary interest was to investigate the potential mediating role of coping mechanisms between the input and output variables of the examined stressful transaction. The study was conducted on a sample of 263 students from the Psychology and German Studies Departments of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Novi Sad. According to our results, only emotion-focused coping mechanisms were statistically significant mediators in the relationship between level of test anxiety and mid-term test achievement. The results indicate that students with high test anxiety who employ predominantly emotion-focused coping strategies score lower on a pre-exam knowledge test.

scholarly journals How Authentic Leadership Influences Team Performance: The Mediating Role of Team Reflexivity

2015 ◽  
Vol 141 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Lyubovnikova ◽  
Alison Legood ◽  
Nicola Turner ◽  
Argyro Mamakouka
Keyword(s):  
Team Performance ◽  
Authentic Leadership ◽  
Mediating Role

Better to be flexible than to have flunked

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 823-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chieh-Peng Lin ◽  
Sheng-Wuu Joe ◽  
Shih-Chih Chen ◽  
Huei-Jyuan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Team Performance ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Team Efficacy ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Service Staff ◽  
Exogenous Factors ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose – High team performance helps achieve several organizational benefits, such as strengthened competitive advantages, enhanced productivity, and higher profits and market share. For these reasons, the purpose of this paper is to propose a model based on the framework of proactive motivation and the theory of collectivism to analyze the formation of service flexibility and team performance. Design/methodology/approach – To test the hypotheses, this study conducts a survey of service staff in teams from high-tech firms in a well-known industrial zone in Northern Taiwan. These teams provide service for their industrial customers. From the survey, this study confirms the full mediating mechanism of service flexibility among the teams. Findings – The test results reveal that service flexibility fully mediates the relationship between team performance and its exogenous factors. Whereas collectivism negatively moderates the relationship between team efficacy and service flexibility, it does not moderate the relationship between service recovery and service flexibility. Furthermore, collectivism positively moderates the relationship between service flexibility and team performance. Originality/value – This study provides important findings that complement previous literature by examining three fresh antecedents for explaining how team performance is motivated by the mediating role of service flexibility and how some of the study’s model paths are moderated by collectivism. The mediating role of service flexibility indicates that managers can apply service flexibility as a firewall that calibrates a team’s input and output. Managers should encourage the application of agile solutions and advanced technology for facilitating team flexibility, consequently improving team performance.

The Role of Performance Measure Noise in Mediating the Relation between Task Complexity and Outsourcing

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ge Bai ◽  
Freddy Coronado ◽  
Ranjani Krishnan
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measures ◽  
Transaction Cost Economics ◽  
Task Complexity ◽  
Performance Measure ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Outpatient Departments ◽  
Incentive Contracting ◽  
External Vendors

ABSTRACT: This paper examines the effect of task complexity on a firm’s decision to outsource and the mediating role of performance measure noise. Using insights from agency and transaction cost economics theories, we predict that task complexity reduces the extent of outsourcing of the task. We further predict that one reason for the negative relation between task complexity and outsourcing is that task complexity increases the noise in performance measures. Noisy performance measures introduce problems in incentive contracting with external vendors and, hence, decrease the extent of outsourcing. Data from 305 inpatient and 1,255 ancillary and outpatient departments of for-profit hospitals provide support for our prediction that performance measure noise mediates the relation between task complexity and outsourcing.

scholarly journals A Systematic Inquiry of Media Efficacy in Pakistan with Respect to Government Accountability

2018 ◽  
Vol III (I) ◽  
pp. 18-27
Author(s):  
Ahsan Ullah ◽  
Azmat Ali Shah
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Government Accountability ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Systematic Inquiry ◽  
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province ◽  
The Media

This research article was intended for finding the role of media in fostering government accountability in Pakistan. Furthermore, the mediating role of political parties was also checked through mediation analysis. This study utilized the information brought together through a structured adapted questionnaire among the participants of this study chosen through probability sampling technique from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It was revealed that through the analysis of the primary data that there is a considerable association found between media and government accountability. Furthermore, it was also proved that the media could significantly predict accountability. The data also revealed that people believed that political parties have a significant mediating role between media and government accountability. This study concluded that the media revolution in the advent of new kinds of media, conventional and non-conventional, has also had a profound impact on government accountability.

scholarly journals Transformational Leadership Versus Shared Leadership for Team Effectiveness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thi Bich Hanh Tran ◽  
Anh Dung Vu
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Team Performance ◽  
Shared Leadership ◽  
Team Effectiveness ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Performance Quality ◽  
Team Viability ◽  
Team Experience

This study aims at investigating the effect of transformational leadership and shared leadership on dimensions of team effectiveness and the mediating role of teamwork orientation. The data were collected from members of working teams in companies of different fields in Vietnam. The results show that both transformational leadership and shared leadership are significantly associated to team effectiveness including team performance, quality of team experience, and team viability. The effects of transformational leadership are more robust compared to those of shared leadership while both leadership styles are dramatically relevant to team viability. In addition, teamwork orientation serves as a significant partial mediator in the relationship between transformational leadership, shared leadership, and dimensions of team effectiveness. The study is an early research in evaluating the effect of transformational leadership and shared leadership on three dimensions of team effectiveness, namely team performance, quality of team experience, and team viability. It is also the very first to explore the mediating role of teamwork orientation in the effect of leadership approaches on components of team effectiveness. The study offers interesting empirical evidence of an under-researched Asian emerging economy – Vietnam – so providing practical implications for companies in Vietnamese context in particular and similar Asian economies.

scholarly journals Linking Identity Leadership and Team Performance: The Role of Group-Based Pride and Leader Political Skill

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Hou ◽  
Lynda Jiwen Song ◽  
Guoyang Zheng ◽  
Bei Lyu
Keyword(s):  
Team Performance ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Political Skill ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Global Identity ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Recent Trends

Recent trends in the leadership literature have promoted a social identity approach of leadership that views leadership as the process of representing, advancing, creating, and embedding a sense of shared identity within a group. However, a few empirical studies explore how and when global identity leadership affects team performance at the workplace. To address this lacuna, we used multi-source and two-wave data among 81 teams to explore the role of group-based pride and leader political skill in the association between identity leadership and team performance. The results suggest that identity leadership positively predicts team performance through a mediating role of group-based pride. Furthermore, leader political skill moderates the indirect effect of group-based pride such that the effect is stronger when leader political skill is high rather than low. Finally, several theoretical and practical implications of this study are discussed, and future research directions are also suggested.

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