Department

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Dept. of Psychology

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

Interteam communication is critical to MTS (multiteam system) success and boundary spanners, individuals responsible for communicating across teams, take on much of the responsibility of this task (Mathieu et al., 2001). Individual level of motivation to communicate across teams should predict higher performing boundary spanners who have the ability to drive MTS success. This project seeks to create a scale that will assess individual motivation to communicate across teams through the development of an initial item pool, review by subject matter experts, and sampling of a working population to assess initial descriptive and reliability statistics. An initial item pool of noncognitive items modified from previously validated scale of motivation and communication and generated from the research literature will be sent to a subject matter expert (SMEs), including identified researchers and practitioners with expertise in the management of boundary spanners in multiteam systems. Specifically, 6 items have been adapted from the Work Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation Scale (Tremblay et al., 2009) and 5 items have been adapted from the Short Scales for Proactive Personality Scale (Janssen et al., 2017) with other items created based on currently available research. This assessment of motivation to communicate between teams could be used to improve boundary spanner selection outcomes in multiteam systems. Future work could expand on this project by undertaking a large-scale field study to establish criterion-related and construct validity for the proposed scale. (Bandalos, 2018).

Date

10-15-2022

Subject

Industrial and organizational psychology

Document Type

posters

Language

English

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License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Selection of Multiteam System Boundary Spanners: An Assessment of Motivation to Communicate between Teams

Interteam communication is critical to MTS (multiteam system) success and boundary spanners, individuals responsible for communicating across teams, take on much of the responsibility of this task (Mathieu et al., 2001). Individual level of motivation to communicate across teams should predict higher performing boundary spanners who have the ability to drive MTS success. This project seeks to create a scale that will assess individual motivation to communicate across teams through the development of an initial item pool, review by subject matter experts, and sampling of a working population to assess initial descriptive and reliability statistics. An initial item pool of noncognitive items modified from previously validated scale of motivation and communication and generated from the research literature will be sent to a subject matter expert (SMEs), including identified researchers and practitioners with expertise in the management of boundary spanners in multiteam systems. Specifically, 6 items have been adapted from the Work Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation Scale (Tremblay et al., 2009) and 5 items have been adapted from the Short Scales for Proactive Personality Scale (Janssen et al., 2017) with other items created based on currently available research. This assessment of motivation to communicate between teams could be used to improve boundary spanner selection outcomes in multiteam systems. Future work could expand on this project by undertaking a large-scale field study to establish criterion-related and construct validity for the proposed scale. (Bandalos, 2018).