Understanding team adaptation: a conceptual analysis and model.
This endeavor provides a multidisciplinary, multilevel, and multiphasic conceptualization of team adaptation with theoretical roots in the cognitive, human factors, and industrial-organizational psychology literature. Team adaptation and the emergent nature of adaptive team performance are defined from a multilevel, theoretical standpoint. An input-throughput-output model is advanced to illustrate a series of phases unfolding over time that constitute the core processes and emergent states underlying adaptive team performance and contributing to team adaptation. The cross-level mixed-determinants model highlights team adaptation in a nomological network of lawful relations. Testable propositions, practical implications, and directions for further research in this area are also advanced.
Burke
C Shawn
CS
Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA. sburke@ist.ucf.edu
Stagl
Kevin C
KC
Salas
Eduardo
E
Pierce
Linda
L
Kendall
Dana
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003071:Cognition; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory