Clarifying Member Personality Influences on Team Effectiveness: Toward a Social Network Approach

Researchers have long sought to disentangle how team composition, including members’ personality attributes, affects team effectiveness. Interestingly, research has insofar largely employed simple team averages or single member attribute ratings (e.g., high, low, or median scores) of a particular attribute (e.g., conscientiousness) without empirically accounting for members’ unique network positions. Social network theory, however, suggests that...