BUS603: Managing People

Highly extraverted individuals tend to be talkative and sociable. Research on team-level extraversion has generally revealed positive relations with team performance, as it may facilitate positive interpersonal interactions between team members. Further, extraverts tend to have higher confidence in their ability to work in a self-managed group, suggesting a positive relation between team-level extraversion and group potency. Finally, extraversion involves facets related to energy, activity, and excitement seeking, all of which would encourage strong willingness to engage in the work and exploration required for team success.

Similar to team-level conscientiousness, team-level extraversion can be considered a resource that is brought to the team by its individual members and functions as an input for team processes (i.e., group potency). Thus, considering team-level extraversion as a team resource, it may lead to increased initial group potency and help teams preserve their group potency over time. This will permit teams to conserve and maintain their potency resources during its lifecycle, potentially leading to increased team effectiveness. Based on this theorizing, the following is hypothesized: