Research has demonstrated the value of team adaptation for organizational teams. However, empirical work on interventions that teams can take to increase adaptive team performance is scarce. In response, this study proposes a concept mapping intervention as a way to increase teams’ ability to adapt following a task change. Particularly, this study examines the effect of a concept mapping intervention on team transition adaptation (the drop in performance after a change) and reacquisition adaptation (the slope of performance after the change) via its effect on task mental models and transactive memory systems. We conducted a longitudinal experimental study of 44 three-person teams working on an emergency management simulation. Findings suggest that the concept mapping intervention promotes reacquisition adaptation, task mental models, and transactive memory systems. Results also suggest that task mental models mediate the effect of the concept mapping intervention on reacquisition adaptation. A post hoc analysis suggests that the concept mapping intervention is only effective if it leads to high task mental model accuracy. Our study presents concept mapping as a practical intervention to promote shared cognition and reacquisition adaptation.

研究表明，团队适应对组织团队的价值。但是，关于团队可以采取哪些干预措施来提高适应性团队绩效的实证研究很少。作为回应，本研究提出了一种概念映射干预措施，以提高团队在任务变更后的适应能力。特别地，本研究通过概念映射干预对任务思维模型和交互式记忆系统的影响，考察了概念映射干预对团队过渡适应（更改后的绩效下降）和重新获得适应（更改后的绩效斜率）的影响。我们对44个三人小组进行了纵向实验研究，以进行应急管理模拟。研究结果表明，概念图干预可以促进重新获得适应，任务心理模型，和事务性存储系统。结果还表明，任务心理模型介导了概念图干预对重新适应的影响。事后分析表明，概念映射干预只有在导致较高的任务心理模型准确性时才有效。我们的研究提出了概念映射作为一种实践干预手段，以促进共享认知和重新适应。