Middle Management Team Characteristics and Corporate Performance(PDF)
《南京师大学报》(社会科学版)[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]
- Issue:
- 2015年05期
- Page:
- 69-
- Research Field:
- 管理学研究
- Publishing date:
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- Title:
- Middle Management Team Characteristics and Corporate Performance
- Author(s):
- XIAO Bin-qing; SHEN Cai-sheng
- Keywords:
- middle management team; team heterogeneity; team conflict; team performance; structural equation model
- PACS:
- -
- DOI:
- -
- Abstract:
- Based on the role of middle management teams in corporate management, we created a questionnaire to survey middle managers of high-tech innovative enterprises in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. With a structural equation model, we then investigated the characteristics of middle management teams in enterprises, as well as the relationships between team heterogeneity, team conflicts, team performance and corporate performance. Results show that teams with high diversity are more likely to trigger conflicts. Each dimension of team conflicts exerts different influences on team performance which functions as a medium between team conflicts and corporate performance. Our findings offer a strong statistical support to the theory of middle management team. Also, our model provides corporate managers with new ideas for decision making, and new perspectives for the assessment of middle management teams by integrating corporate values of innovative enterprises into the assessment.
Last Update: 2015-09-15