【公开学术报告】Construal Level Diversity in Teams

Construal Level Diversity in Teams

Guest Speaker:     Yi HUANG (NTU)

Date & Time:        9:30-11:00 (Beijing Time), Tue. 26^th, Sept. 2023

Zoom Meeting:     91365400958（Password: 708866）

Click the Link:       https://zoom.us/j/91365400958

ABSTRACT

Despite the burgeoning number of studies on team diversity, research regarding deep-level diversity remains sparse. One important deep-level aspect of team members that has not been understood is the construal level, which refers to “the way people encode and retrieve information” (Wiesenfeld et al., 2017: 367). In my dissertation, I investigate the diversity of construal level in teams. Integrating the construal level and the team literature, I first discuss how team members’ trait construal level diversity can have a beneficial influence through high team efficacy but a detrimental influence via high team depletion on team outcomes including performance, creativity, and member satisfaction. Further, I argue that the competing effects can be reconciled by team members’ openness to cognitive diversity and cognitive flexibility. Then, I hypothesize how state construal level diversity in teams changes over time. I tested my hypotheses in two field survey studies. Study 1 included 151 student teams of 6 waves during 6 weeks, and Study 2 included 106 project teams from a Chinese organization of 5 time periods during 5 months. Results consistently illustrated the negative indirect consequences of team trait construal level diversity and suggested an increase of state construal level diversity over time.