Exploring The Relationship Between Multiple Team Membership And Team Performance: The Role Of Communication Frequency

Firms committed to research and development and innovative activities intensively use teams to carry out knowledge intensive work and increasingly ask their employees to be engaged in multiple teams(e.g., R&D project teams) simultaneously. The literature has extensively investigated the antecedents of single team performance, but has largely overlooked the effects of multiple team membership(MTM) to team performance. In this thesis we explore the relationships between team performance, multiple team membership(MTM), online communication frequency,and offline communication frequency.This study used survey questionnaires to collect data, the scale translatedfrom international authoritative journal. In this study, the survey sample is 41 team leaders and 116 team members from R&D unit of 9 company. We used statistical analysis software for data reliability, andwe use regression analysis to verify the 3 hypotheses proposed in this research.From the research results, we can see the existence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between multiple team membership(MTM) and team performance such that teams whose members are engaged simultaneously in few or many teams experience lower performance. We found that online communication frequency moderated this relationship. When multiple team membership(MTM) is low or high, Online communication frequency has a positive effect, while at intermediate levels of multiple team membership(MTM) it has a negative effect. We found tha the offline communication frequency also moderated the relationship. When multiple team membership(MTM) is low or high, Online communication frequency has a positive effect, while at intermediate levels of multiple team membership(MTM) it has a negative effect.