The Impact of Hybrid Team Structures on Performance and Adaptation: Beyond Mechanistic and Organic Prototypes

Abstract

Building on the idea of asymmetric adaptability, this study focused on structural and compositional ways to arrange teams in order to maximize both initial performance and structural adaptability. Based on 64 teams that completed a command and control simulation, our results suggest that hybrid teams (teams structured using non-redundant, complimentary elements of both departmentation and centralization) were able to perform well initially and successfully shift structures, while teams structured in traditionally mechanistic and organic manners were not. Furthermore, high mean levels of emotional stability and extraversion helped to ease the difficult transition from organic to mechanistic team structures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA465820

Entities

People

  • Christopher J. Meyer
  • Danial R. Ilgen
  • Dustin K. Jundt
  • John R. Hollenbeck
  • Michael D. Johnson
  • Stephan E. Humphrey

Organizations

  • Michigan State University

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Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Applied Psychology
  • Autonomy
  • Climate Change
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Simulations
  • Detection
  • Efficiency
  • Environment
  • Friendly Fire
  • Geographic Regions
  • Military Operations
  • Models
  • Prototypes
  • Psychology
  • Regression Analysis
  • Simulations

Readers

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control