dc.description.abstract | Rapidly shortened cycle of the industrial technology has lead to the declined market profit; enterprises have used many flexible team structures to achieve business goals. The key to team performance is mainly affected by the team structure, which presents the different interaction among team members. Interaction is a process, and the higher the interdependence, the more co-ordination needed to enhance organizational effectiveness. However, is the degree of team autonomy really a co-ordination mechanism for team members to affect team effectiveness?
Therefore, this study is to discuss the relationship among intra-team interdependence, team autonomy, and team effectiveness, which includes:
First, the effect of intra-team interdependence on team effectiveness.
Second, the effect of intra-team interdependence on team autonomy.
Third, the mediating effectiveness of team autonomy between intra-team interdependence and team effectiveness.
The study used purposive sampling method, covered the semiconductor, electronics, communications, precision machinery, and biomedical industries. Approached companies were above certain size and with willingness to participate in. The questionnaires were filled up by paired-upped team leaders and team members, and were issued to136 teams, 858 questionnaires in total. 119 valid team questionnaires which are equal to 744 individual questionnaires were returned. Effective team response rate was 87.5%, including 74 work teams and 45 project teams. Descriptive statistics, reliability test, correlation analysis and regression analysis methods were used for the analysis.
According to the analysis results, we found that:
First, intra-team interdependence has significant and positive relationship on team effectiveness.
Second, team autonomy has a significant positive relationship on team effectiveness.
Third, team autonomy has partial mediating effectives in intra-team interdependence to effect on output quality of team effectiveness.
Fourth, team autonomy has partial mediating effectives in intra-team interdependence to effect on creative ability of team effectiveness.
Fifth, team autonomy has partial mediating effectives in intra-team interdependence to effect on team satisfaction of team effectiveness.
All the above conclusions could be provided as recommendations and reference to researchers to follow up.
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