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Team Mental Model: Construct or Metaphor?
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There has been a recent resurgence of interest in group cognition in the field of organizational science. However, despite the apparent enthusiasm for the notion of the group mind in some modern guise, important conceptual work is needed to examine the concept critically. We attempt to do this in our treatment of the content, form, function, antecedents, and consequences of team mental models. In addition, we illustrate how the construct can bring explanatory power to theories of team performance and offer other implications for research and practice.
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“Information elaboration effectiveness may be hampered, for instance, when teams do not possess a shared mental model of the task (Klimoski & Mohammed, 1994), are not sufficiently motivated to think thoroughly about the task (De Dreu et al., 2008), or focus more on shared rather than unique information (Gigone & Hastie, 1993;Stasser & Titus, 2003).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Klimoski, R., & Mohammed, S.
- Affiliations
- The Ohio State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Klimoski, Richard
- ORCID
- Klimoski, Richard
- Venue
- Journal of Management
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1994-04
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 403-437
- ISSN
- 0149-2063 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-1211
- OpenAlex
- W2002052638
- Cited by
- 1,632
- References
- 102
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 8.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
- Locations
- Journal of Management (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Team Dynamics and Performance
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Sport Psychology and Performance
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Keywords
- team mental models, group cognition, group mind, team performance, organizational science, conceptual analysis, antecedents and consequences
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