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The impact of status hierarchy on individual behavior and team processes
Doornenbal, B.M.
2021
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Doornenbal, B. M. (2021). The impact of status hierarchy on individual behavior and team processes.
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ... 10
Research Question 1 - Status hierarchy ... 13
Research Question 2 - Functional group processes ... 14
Research Question 3 Upward status-based deference ... 15
Chapter overview ... 16
Validity matters ... 21
Measurement validity matters ... 22
Construct validity matters ... 27
CHAPTER 2 STATUS HIERARCHIES IN TEAMS ... 33
Abstract ... 34
Introduction ... 35
Theory ... 37
Status hierarchies ... 37
Status hierarchy as the combination of steepness and skewness... 38
Towards a conceptual model of the impact of status hierarchy ... 41
The joint impact of hierarchy steepness and skewness on information elaboration ... 42
Information elaboration and team performance ... 44
Methods ... 45
Results ... 51
Discussion ... 55
Implications for the hierarchy literature ... 56
Practical Implications ... 59
Limitations and Future Research Directions ... 60
Conclusion ... 62
CHAPTER 3 WHEN AND WHY DOES HIEARARCHY AFFECT TEAM COORDINATION ... 65
Abstract ... 66
Introduction ... 67
Status hierarchy in teams ... 71
Integrating two hierarchy properties in predicting coordination ... 74
Methods Study 1 ... 77 Results Study 1 ... 81 Discussion Study 1 ... 86 Study 2 ... 87 Methods Study 2 ... 90 Results Study 2 ... 97 Discussion Study 2 ... 101 General discussion ... 103 Theoretical implications ... 105 Practical implications ... 107
Limitations and suggestions for future research ... 108
Conclusion ... 110
CHAPTER 4 DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS ... 111
Abstract ... 112
Theory ... 116
Deference ... 116
Upward status-based deference and goal orientation... 118
The moderating influence of self-efficacy ... 122
Method ... 124
Results ... 129
Discussion ... 134
Theoretical implications ... 134
Practical implications ... 138
Limitations and suggestions for future research ... 139
Conclusion ... 141
CHAPTER 5 OPERATIONALIZING HIERARCHIES ... 143
Abstract ... 144
Introduction ... 145
Conceptualizing and operationalizing hierarchy ... 150
Conceptualizing hierarchy as disparity or acyclicity ... 151
From conceptualization to operationalization ... 154
Empirical examination ... 158 Results ... 161 Simulation studies ... 164 Results ... 171 Research Question 1 ... 171 Research Question 2 ... 177 Conclusion ... 184
CHAPTER 6 DISCUSSION ... 188
Summary of the main findings ... 191
Research Question 1 ... 194
Research Question 2 ... 197
Research Question 3 ... 199
Theoretical implications, validity issues, and future research ... 201
Research Question 1 ... 202 Research Question 2 ... 206 Research Question 3 ... 209 Managerial implications ... 212 SUMMARY ... 218 DUTCH SUMMARY ... 226 REFERENCES ... 234 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... 256
