LEVEL AND DISPERSION OF SATISFACTION IN TEAMS: USING FOCI AND SOCIAL CONTEXT TO EXPLAIN THE SATISFACTION-ABSENTEEISM RELATIONSHIP

By Brian R. Dineen, Raymond A. Noe, Jason D. Shaw, M. Duffy, C. Wiethoff. 2007

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We develop an integrative theory regarding the effects of mean levels and dispersion of satisfaction predicting absenteeism. Differential interactive predictions are derived for two satisfaction foci and tested in two distinct samples. Among student teams, absenteeism from team meetings was highest when team (internally focused) satisfaction mean and dispersion were both lower, but low when course (externally focused) satisfaction mean and dispersion were both lower. Moreover, given lower dispersion, the mean team satisfaction-absenteeism relationship appeared stronger, whereas the same relationship involving course satisfaction appeared weaker than meta-analyzed individual-level relationships. We replicated these results among manufacturing teams using team and job satisfaction foci.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Dispersion-Composition Models in Multilevel Research (2011, background): “This result is not atypical; Dineen et al. (2007) likewise reported that the absolute mean level and dispersion of team satisfaction were related in an \-shaped fashion.”
• Work-Unit Absenteeism: Effects of Satisfaction, Commitment, Labor Market Conditions, and Time (2008, background): “senteeism (Dineen et al., 2007; George, 1990; Markham, Dansereau, & Alutto, 1982).”
• Linking leader behavior and leadership consensus to team performance: Integrating direct consensus and dispersion models of group composition (2011, background): “Dragoni (2005) asserted that, as leaders, managers transmit their belief systems to team members through role modeling, providing guidance in the form of direct and indirect feedback, and by reinforcing behavior that supports a leader's favored achievement orientation.”