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Team behaviors as antecedents for team members’ work engagement in interdisciplinary health care teams
INTRODUCTION: Due to the increasing complexity and diversity of work tasks in teams, teams need team members who are dedicated and energetic, both characteristics attributed to team members’ work engagement. Especially in the domain of health care, high demands at work impact professionals’ work eng...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10352783/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37469903 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1196154 |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Due to the increasing complexity and diversity of work tasks in teams, teams need team members who are dedicated and energetic, both characteristics attributed to team members’ work engagement. Especially in the domain of health care, high demands at work impact professionals’ work engagement. Despite teams being the main work unit in this domain, team research on antecedents of work engagement has been neglected. The present study examines the role of team behaviors such as reflection activities in the relationships between demands at work and team members’ work engagement. In doing so, the study aims to extend findings on team behaviors by considering cognitive and work-task related team behaviors as well as team behaviors that focus on emotional aspects. METHODS: Data of 298 team members of 52 interdisciplinary teams of health and social care organizations which provide care and assistance were collected in this cross-sectional survey study. Relationships between team demands at work, team learning behaviors, dealing with emotions in the team and team members’ work engagement were estimated in a mediation model using structural equation modeling (SEM). RESULTS: The results indicate that team members’ work engagement is positively related to team learning behaviors and dealing with emotions in the team. Cognitive team demands at work such as the complexity of work tasks, were found to relate positively to team members’ work engagement, while emotional team demands such as the amount of emotional labor at work had a negative relationship. Team learning behaviors and dealing with emotions in the team were found to mediate the relationship between team demands at work and team members’ work engagement. DISCUSSION: Our results provide insights into the actual behavior of teams in the domain of health care, both on cognitive and emotional aspects, and the capability of team learning behaviors and dealing with emotions in the team to mediate the relationship between team demands at work and team members’ work engagement. The findings encourage future researchers and practitioners to address cognitive, emotional and motivational components in team research to provide a better understanding of team conditions, team behavior and team outcomes. |
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spelling | pubmed-103527832023-07-19 Team behaviors as antecedents for team members’ work engagement in interdisciplinary health care teams Gerbeth, Sebastian Mulder, Regina H. Front Psychol Psychology INTRODUCTION: Due to the increasing complexity and diversity of work tasks in teams, teams need team members who are dedicated and energetic, both characteristics attributed to team members’ work engagement. Especially in the domain of health care, high demands at work impact professionals’ work engagement. Despite teams being the main work unit in this domain, team research on antecedents of work engagement has been neglected. The present study examines the role of team behaviors such as reflection activities in the relationships between demands at work and team members’ work engagement. In doing so, the study aims to extend findings on team behaviors by considering cognitive and work-task related team behaviors as well as team behaviors that focus on emotional aspects. METHODS: Data of 298 team members of 52 interdisciplinary teams of health and social care organizations which provide care and assistance were collected in this cross-sectional survey study. Relationships between team demands at work, team learning behaviors, dealing with emotions in the team and team members’ work engagement were estimated in a mediation model using structural equation modeling (SEM). RESULTS: The results indicate that team members’ work engagement is positively related to team learning behaviors and dealing with emotions in the team. Cognitive team demands at work such as the complexity of work tasks, were found to relate positively to team members’ work engagement, while emotional team demands such as the amount of emotional labor at work had a negative relationship. Team learning behaviors and dealing with emotions in the team were found to mediate the relationship between team demands at work and team members’ work engagement. DISCUSSION: Our results provide insights into the actual behavior of teams in the domain of health care, both on cognitive and emotional aspects, and the capability of team learning behaviors and dealing with emotions in the team to mediate the relationship between team demands at work and team members’ work engagement. The findings encourage future researchers and practitioners to address cognitive, emotional and motivational components in team research to provide a better understanding of team conditions, team behavior and team outcomes. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10352783/ /pubmed/37469903 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1196154 Text en Copyright © 2023 Gerbeth and Mulder. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Gerbeth, Sebastian Mulder, Regina H. Team behaviors as antecedents for team members’ work engagement in interdisciplinary health care teams |
title | Team behaviors as antecedents for team members’ work engagement in interdisciplinary health care teams |
title_full | Team behaviors as antecedents for team members’ work engagement in interdisciplinary health care teams |
title_fullStr | Team behaviors as antecedents for team members’ work engagement in interdisciplinary health care teams |
title_full_unstemmed | Team behaviors as antecedents for team members’ work engagement in interdisciplinary health care teams |
title_short | Team behaviors as antecedents for team members’ work engagement in interdisciplinary health care teams |
title_sort | team behaviors as antecedents for team members’ work engagement in interdisciplinary health care teams |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10352783/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37469903 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1196154 |
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