ABSTRACT
Motivation in and of Teams: A Framework ................................................ 288 Generalizability of Motivational Concepts to the Team Level ................ 291
Motivational Processes: Goal Generation and Goal-Striving Processes .................................................................................... 291
Motivational States ............................................................................... 293 Research Needs ..................................................................................... 296
Cross-Level Interplay Between Individual and Team Motivation ......... 298 Research Needs ..................................................................................... 300
Multilevel Antecedence and Outcomes of Motivation in and of Teams 301 Research Needs ..................................................................................... 303
Boundary Conditions Affecting Motivational Phenomena in and of Teams ................................................................................................. 305 Team Type .............................................................................................. 305 Team Interdependence ......................................................................... 306 Team Developmental Stages................................................................ 307 Cultural Differences ............................................................................. 308
Conclusion ........................................................................................................310 References ........................................................................................................311
A major theme of this book is that contextual factors exact nontrivial inuences on employee motivation. Contributing to this theme, the present chapter examines employee motivation in the context of work groups and teams. Following others (e.g., Kozlowski & Bell, 2003), we use the terms work groups and work teams interchangeably, and dene them as “a distinguishable set of two or more people who interact, dynamically, interdependently, and adaptively toward a common and valued goal/ objective/mission, who have each been assigned specic roles or functions to perform, and who have a limited life-span of membership” (Salas, Dickinson, Converse, & Tannenbaum, 1992, p. 4).
