Researchers have suggested that some personality traits are associated with better team functioning when team members are homogeneous, whereas other personality traits improve team functioning when team members are heterogeneous. This article extends these ideas to team innovation and examines (a) how team variance in extraversion, agreeableness, openness, and conscientiousness relates to innovation in teams; and (b) how these relationships dynamically evolve over time. Our study included 704 surveys completed by 243 team members in 32 teams, at three time points. Results revealed that teams with less variance in extraversion showed higher levels of team innovation. For agreeableness and openness, we did not find main effects of team heterogeneity on team innovation. For teams with low heterogeneity in agreeableness, however, team innovation decreased over time. Team variance in conscientiousness was negatively associated with team innovation. Our findings provide support that team personality plays a role for innovation.

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将自我管理团队的人格特质差异与团队创新联系起来

研究人员认为，当团队成员同质化时，某些人格特质与更好的团队运作相关，而当团队成员异质性时，其他人格特质会改善团队运作。本文将这些想法扩展到团队创新，并检验 (a) 外向性、宜人性、开放性和尽责性方面的团队差异与团队创新之间的关系；(b) 这些关系如何随时间动态演变。我们的研究包括由 32 个团队的 243 名团队成员在三个时间点完成的 704 项调查。结果显示，外向性差异较小的团队表现出较高的团队创新水平。对于宜人性和开放性，我们没有发现团队异质性对团队创新的主要影响。然而，对于宜人性异质性较低的团队，团队创新随着时间的推移而减少。尽责性的团队差异与团队创新呈负相关。我们的研究结果支持团队个性对创新的影响。