Start Date

10-12-2017 12:00 AM

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Driven by the ubiquitous ICTs, mobile/virtual working came into the prevalence and enabled contemporary knowledge workers to work anytime, anywhere. However, some companies recently ended the work-from-home policy and required employees of “presenteeism”, since they believed that employees would be more collaborative and innovative when they were together. The emerging practices raising a workspace puzzle that is overlooked in the literature. We drew insights from environmental psychology and integrative complexity to examine how members’ workspaces and their composition influences virtual team creativity. The proposed model intended to answer two research questions: 1) what are the influences of private and public workspace on virtual team creativity? 2) whether and how do team socio-cognitive processes (i.e., task conflict and relational conflict) mediate these influences? We will conduct a controlled lab experiment to empirically examine this model.

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Dec 10th, 12:00 AM

Fueling Virtual Teams with Creativity through Composition of Private and Public Workspaces

Driven by the ubiquitous ICTs, mobile/virtual working came into the prevalence and enabled contemporary knowledge workers to work anytime, anywhere. However, some companies recently ended the work-from-home policy and required employees of “presenteeism”, since they believed that employees would be more collaborative and innovative when they were together. The emerging practices raising a workspace puzzle that is overlooked in the literature. We drew insights from environmental psychology and integrative complexity to examine how members’ workspaces and their composition influences virtual team creativity. The proposed model intended to answer two research questions: 1) what are the influences of private and public workspace on virtual team creativity? 2) whether and how do team socio-cognitive processes (i.e., task conflict and relational conflict) mediate these influences? We will conduct a controlled lab experiment to empirically examine this model.