Teamwork in the time of COVID-19: Creating, dissolving, and reactivating network ties in response to a crisis.

We present a field study conducted in a multinational industrial manufacturing company in China investigating network churn during the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings show that, during a crisis, job performance is positively related to the volume of inter-team tie creation and inter-team tie reactivation, but not intra-team tie creation and intra-team tie reactivation. Job performance is not related to the volume of intra- and inter-team tie dissolution. The study provides early, yet important insights into the interplay between crisis and organizational social networks. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research