was not able to extract that extra amount of work required to achieve? Looking at the
causes of team failure may yield the flip side of the benefits.
Finally, there is another aspect of performance that was not gauged here. Recent
research has shown that cohesion, which reflects to some extent the interaction among
team members, would be positively associated with contextual performance. Unlike
task performance which was studied here, contextual behaviors such as organizational
citizenship can be expected to increase when the group becomes more cohesive. For
example, helping and teaching others or working over time on a project when it is not
called for, can be expected from members who have ties to the group and also feel for
the group as whole and not only for themselves as individuals (for a discussion of some
of these issues, see LePine et al., 2000).
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