The team halo effect: why teams are not blamed for their failures.
In this study, the existence of the team halo effect, the phenomenon that teams tend not to be blamed for their failures, is documented. With 2 studies using both real teams and controlled scenarios, the authors found evidence that the nature of the causal attribution processes used to diagnose failure scenarios leads to individuals being more likely to be identified as the cause of team failure than the team as a collective. Team schema development, as indexed by team experience, influences this effect, with individuals who have more team experience being less likely to show the team halo effect
Naquin
Charles E
CE
Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA. charles.naquin.1@nd.edu
Tynan
Renee O
RO
D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D015279:Organizational Culture; D011897:Random Allocation; D012044:Regression Analysis; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*