Theoretical Study And Model Construction On Scientific Research Team Performance

Scientific research institutes, as the major part of China's high-tech industry, are facing radical changes in both outer and inner surroundings. Research team has become an important unit in an organization and how to build a sustainable high-performance team to meet the rapid market change has become an important research topic.This thesis will focus on the development of institutes in North China, particularly those in Shanxi province, and from the perspective of performance management in organization transform, the author will carry out theoretical research on team performance model, and model building and examination. In addition, the author designs performance evaluation questionnaires of research team. Through reviewing related research in the past decade and interviewing and the outcome of questionnaires, the author get the draft questionnaires of research team performance evaluation from 22 items.The author extended 300 questionnaires and received 255 effective questionnaires. By canceling 2 items through item analyses, the author got formal questionnaires of 20 items. Based on them, the author investigated 830 research personnel in 14 research institutes and got 511 effective questionnaires. The author took Cronbach's coefficient alpha as the index of inner consistence of items, and conducted credit examination on the whole questionnaire and 4 sub-questionnaires. The results show that index of reliability in four aspects is between 0.773-0.798 and that of the whole questionnaire is 0.929, both of which are higher than the recommended index 0.70. Thus, the performance evaluation questionnaire of research institute is of high reliability.The author conducted CFA on the data with AMOS 4.0 and got that X2/df is 2.711, TLI is 0.990, CFI is 0.992, NFI is 0.988 and proved that the model has good structural validity. Through the comparison of one-factor model and four-factor, the author got that the latter is a better model.The conclusions of this thesis are as following:1. Against the domestic background, research team performance faces in the process of the organization reform in research institutes a four-factor structure. It includes: team output, an index which refers to the program accomplishment of a team, including the capability to realize objectives, efficiency, resource use and the understanding of team members on objectives; team satisfaction, which refers to the psychological experience of team members and clients when they compare the expected benefits and the actual benefits, including team member satisfaction, client satisfaction, outer evaluation and the happiness of team cooperation; team development, which refers to a team's capability of improving the existing work, including the development of teamwork, the growth of team members, the discovery and development of team members' specialty and capability and the development of team member relation; team adaptability, which refers to the adaptive behavior the team makes in the rapidly reforming organization, when facing complex and high time-pressure tasks, including the differentiation of key tasks, fast learning, applying new methods, behavior under high pressure and the accomplishment of task without enough information.2. The Scientific Research Team Performance Questionnaire(SRTPQ) designed in this thesis consists of 20 items and has good reliability and validity. It can be used for similar researches afterwards.3. The assumed model matched well with the data. Through comparison with competitive model, the author reached the conclusion that four-factor model is the optimal model.