Team Goal Commitment and Team Effectiveness: The Role of Task ...

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Table 1
Means, Standard Deviations, Average r wg, Reliabilities, and Correlations Between Variables
Variable M SD rwg 1 2 3 4 5 6
1. Team goal commitment 3.89 0.54 .82 (.85)
2. Task interdependence 3.70 0.46 .72 .25* (.78)
3. Supportive behaviors 3.66 0.46 .83 .59** .40** (.89)
4. Team performance 3.88 0.70 — .30** .03 .36** (.82)
5. Quality of group experience 3.60 0.58 .78 .31** .24* .67** .25* (.96)
6. Team viability 3.85 0.79 — .26* .01 .29* .76** .19 (.84)
7. Team size 6.26 4.35 — .10 .12 �.05 .10 .11 .08
Note. N � 74 teams. Reliability estimates (Cronbach’s alphas) are in parentheses.
* p � .05. ** p � .01.
rov–Smirnov) revealed that every variable
showed a roughly normal distribution. In addition,
examination of the residuals indicated that
multivariate assumptions of linearity and homoscedasticity
were respected for all variables.
It should be noted that team size was included
as a control variable in all analyses because it
may have had an impact on the key variables
(e.g., Curral, Forrester, Dawson, & West, 2001).
Relationships Between Team Goal
Commitment and the Criteria of Team
Effectiveness
Regression analyses were used to examine
the first, second, and third hypotheses, which
concern relationships between team goal commitment
and the criteria of team effectiveness.
As predicted, team goal commitment was positively
and significantly ( p � .05) related to
team performance, the quality of group experi-
Table 2
Team Goal Commitment Main Effect Analyses
ence, and team viability (see Table 2). Thus,
team goal commitment explained between 6.5%
and 9.1% of the variance of the criteria of team
effectiveness. The effect size of the relationships
involving team performance and the quality
of group experience can be qualified as moderate,
whereas the effect size of the relationship
involving team viability can be qualified as
low–moderate (Cohen, 1992).
Moderating Effect of Task
Interdependence
The fourth, fifth, and sixth hypotheses predicted
that task interdependence positively
moderates the relationship between team goal
commitment and the criteria of team effectiveness.
These hypotheses were tested
through a hierarchical multiple regression in
two steps, which is the procedure proposed by
Cohen, Cohen, West, and Aiken (2003). In
Model B SE B � �R 2
Dependent variable: Team performance
Step 1: Team size .01 .02 .07 .009
Step 2: Team goal commitment
Dependent variable: Quality of group experience
.38 .15 .29* .085*
Step 1: Team size .01 .02 .08 .012
Step 2: Team goal commitment
Dependent variable: Team viability
.33 .12 .30** .091**
Step 1: Team size .01 .02 .05 .006
Step 2: Team goal commitment
Dependent variable: Supportive behaviors
.38 .17 .26* .065*
Step 1: Team size �.01 .01 �.11 .002
Step 2: Team goal commitment .51 .08 .60** .360**
Note. N � 74 teams.
* p � .05. ** p � .01.