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Leaders and Team Members’ Perceptions of Cooperation at Work

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 19447

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Alexandre Garcia-Mas

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Basic Psychology Department, University of Balearic Islands, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Interests: human dynamics (group dynamics); performance and psychological and social variables related with sports
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Prof. Dr. Jaime Cantallops Ramón

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Departament de Pedagogia i Didàctiques Específiques, University of the Balearic Islands, 07122. Palma, Spain
Interests: inclusion, cooperation, motivation, prosocial and antisocial behavior
Prof. Dr. Pedro Marques-Quinteiro

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William James Center for Research, ISPA – Instituto Universitário, 1149-041, Portugal
Interests: teamwork; extreme teams; coordination; adaptation; complex adaptive systems
Prof. Dr. Duarte Pimentel

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William James Center for Research, ISPA – Instituto Universitário, 1149-041 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: exploring and understanding differences and similarities between family and non-family firms regarding classical organizational variables (e.g., teamwork, organizational justice, commitment, turnover), and how family participation and involvement influences top management teamwork effectiveness, cooperation and decision making in family firms.
Prof. Dr. Rubén Trigueros Ramos

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Department of Psychology, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain
Interests: physical education; physical activity; motivation; emotional health, prosocial and antisocial behavior
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Cooperation is an ubiquitous process that enables performance and wellbeing in collective activities. Many agencies, industries, and government institutions acknowledge its importance to organizational success. Cooperation has fundamental implications for several team and organizational outcomes, such as performance, productivity, safety, customer experience, creativity, and occupational wellbeing, and this is true across industries as diverse as sports, healthcare, product and services development and innovation, science, space and national security, to name a few.

Given the increasing importance of cooperation, there is an opportunity for psychological sciences to contribute potential solutions to the challenges that arise within and between teams and their leadership, particularly because we believe there is a need to produce a scientifically rooted, yet practical, overview of what we know and need to know about the development of cooperation across levels and time. Thus, the purpose of this Special Issue is to provide scholars and practitioners with a wide overview of cooperation, with impactful insights for practice and avenues for new research.

This Special Issue seeks papers that address the following topics. These are illustrative only, as we will also consider other topics related to cooperation in teams.

  • What are the new and emerging theories that describe the cooperation processes in teams and multiteam systems?
  • Are there any new constructs, dimensions, or factors that help define and understand the evolution of cooperation in teams over time?
  • What are the implications of cooperation within teams and between teams and leadership across multiple contexts (e.g., top management, project, sports, extreme, virtual)?
  • How can we build and enhance cooperation between teams, team members, and team leadership?
  • Which individual and collective interventions work and why? What evidence exists to support their effectiveness?
  • What are the methodological tools or general approaches that enable an understanding of cooperation dynamics across organizational levels and over time?

Prof. Dr. Alexandre Garcia-Mas
Prof. Dr. Jaime Cantallops Ramón
Prof. Dr. Pedro Marques-Quinteiro
Prof. Dr. Duarte Pimentel
Prof. Dr. Rubén Trigueros Ramos
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Keywords

  • cooperation;
  • organizational outcomes;
  • performance;
  • leadership;
  • teamwork;
  • multiteam systems;
  • team and team member interventions.

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Forever Young! Tintin’s Adventures as an Example of Physical Activity and Sport
by Alejandro García-Mas, Aurelio Olmedilla, Sébastien Laffage-Cosnier, Jaume Cruz, Yann Descamps and Christian Vivier
Sustainability 2021, 13(4), 2349; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042349 - 22 Feb 2021
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Created by Hergé in 1929, Tintin is a truly successful publication, since these comic books have been translated into about a hundred languages and published throughout the world during the 20th century. Several studies have already been conducted on Tintin. However, the place [...] Read more.
Created by Hergé in 1929, Tintin is a truly successful publication, since these comic books have been translated into about a hundred languages and published throughout the world during the 20th century. Several studies have already been conducted on Tintin. However, the place and role of physical and sports activities practiced by this tireless journalist in the promotion of these highly sustainable activities have never been analyzed. Through both quantitative and qualitative analyses (descriptions, counts, frequencies and percentages), this work studies all the panels of the 23 albums of Tintin’s adventures dealing with any form of physical exercise or sport. The results indicate that the representation of physical and sporting activity in Tintin’s adventures remains steady and consistent from the first (1931) to the last book (1976). Thus, Hergé had never ceased to believe in the beneficial, physiological, psychological, moral and social effects of physical activity on his young, tireless hero. To summarize, the eternally youthful and perfectly fit, Tintin leads both his core band and occasional characters and may serve as a role model influencing young 20th century readers toward the benefits of an active lifestyle. Full article
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Relationship between Perceived Teamwork Effectiveness and Team Performance in Banking Sector of Serbia
by Nemanja Berber, Agneš Slavić and Marko Aleksić
Sustainability 2020, 12(20), 8753; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208753 - 21 Oct 2020
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Teamwork is one of the most important factors for business success in the modern economy. In almost every area of business, teams receive more and more attention, since it has been found that teamwork leads to greater individual, group, and even organizational performance. [...] Read more.
Teamwork is one of the most important factors for business success in the modern economy. In almost every area of business, teams receive more and more attention, since it has been found that teamwork leads to greater individual, group, and even organizational performance. The aim of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of teamwork and its relationship with team performances. Specifically, the authors tried to investigate which factors of teamwork effectiveness have a positive relationship with teamwork performance and the sustainability of teams in the future. The subject of the research is the effectiveness of teamwork as a construct that is widely presented in the scientific field of organizational behavior and human resource management, but is still underexplored in empirical research, especially in the banking sector. An investigation with a self-audit questionnaire on teamwork effectiveness was conducted on a sample of 401 employees in the banking sector in Serbia, in 16 out of the 26 existing banks in the country. The authors used SmartPLS software in order to test the questionnaire (indicator loadings, internal consistency reliability, convergent validity, and discriminant validity) and proposed research question (PLS-SEM). The results showed that factors such as innovative behavior of the team members, the quality of teamwork, and teamwork synergy have positive relations to teamwork performance. This paper contributes to the better understanding of the factors of teamwork effectiveness that contribute to team performances, with respect to the banking industry in Serbia. The limitation of the paper is the size of the sample, with respect to the total population. Full article
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Empirical Research in Colombian Services Sector: Relation between Transformational Leadership, Climate and Commitment
by Miguel A. Mañas-Rodríguez, Eleonora Enciso-Forero, Carmen M. Salvador-Ferrer, Rubén Trigueros and José M. Aguilar-Parra
Sustainability 2020, 12(16), 6659; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166659 - 18 Aug 2020
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The objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between the variables of transformational leadership, climate and commitment in a sample of 319 workers of a multinational organization in the Colombian Services Sector. For data collection, we used the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire [...] Read more.
The objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between the variables of transformational leadership, climate and commitment in a sample of 319 workers of a multinational organization in the Colombian Services Sector. For data collection, we used the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), the climate/culture questionnaire FOCUS-93 and the Intellectual, Social and Affective Commitment Scale (ISA). Data were processed with SPSS 23 and AMOS 22 for modeling with structural equations. In the path diagram, calculated according to the indicators of structural adjustments, variances were obtained for the dimensions of organizational commitment. The resulting model presented favorable adjustment indicators as evidenced in the results, and the relationship between commitment and climate was significant (β = 4.61; p = 0.001), as well as between climate and commitment (β = 0.018; p = 0.001). However, the relationship between transformational leadership and commitment was not direct but mediated through organizational climate. Full article
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Confirmatory and Exploratory Analysis of the Questionnaire to Evaluate the Disposition towards Organizational Change (CEDCO)
by Mónica García-Rubiano, Carlos Forero-Aponte, Miguel Á. Mañas-Rodríguez, Pedro A. Díaz-Fúnez, Rubén Trigueros and José M. Aguilar-Parra
Sustainability 2020, 12(16), 6543; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166543 - 13 Aug 2020
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This article shows the results of two processes that corresponded to exploratory and confirmatory analyses of the Questionnaire to Evaluate the Disposition towards Organizational Change (CEDCO). The overall sample consisted of 1554 people. The first process considered 489 participants, and provided evidence of [...] Read more.
This article shows the results of two processes that corresponded to exploratory and confirmatory analyses of the Questionnaire to Evaluate the Disposition towards Organizational Change (CEDCO). The overall sample consisted of 1554 people. The first process considered 489 participants, and provided evidence of the multidimensionality of the test on three levels. The second process involved a sample of 1065 people, and provided evidence for appropriate fit values for the model that were consistent with the initial proposal for the test on three levels of evaluation: individual, group, and organizational. The results suggest the need to evaluate the practice using other mathematical models to address the biases that exist in some item distributions. Full article
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