The Evolution and Maturation of Teams in Organizations: Convergent Trends in the New Dynamic Science of Teams

Abstract

Teams play a central role in the most innovative (Ahmadpoor and Jones, ), safety critical (Salas et al., ), and economically impactful work (Duhigg, ). They pervade modern organizations and drive performance outcomes (LePine et al., ; Hughes et al., ) and worker well-being (Welp and Manser, ; Mathieu et al., ). Consequently, researchers across a broad array of disciplines have focused on teams as an object of inquiry. Understanding and improving team functioning is a complex multi-level scientific problem, and, over the decades, much has been learned (Salas et al., ). The science of teams comp