A study of team effectiveness influenced by the fitting between team personality composition and team virtualization level

With the development of information technology, types of organizations and the nature of management have changed, and boundaries between organizations have diminished. The newest type of work group to emerge is the “virtual team”. Team composition affects team effectiveness. Most team composition researches focused on the visible variable characteristics, such as demographic variables, but the implicit personality variables were ignored. Based on “Big Five” factors, including neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness, we explore the effect of team personality composition on team virtualization level and team effectiveness. The study sample consisted of 62 completed team questionnaires (filled out by 62 team leaders and 234 team members) from 49 enterprises in the information and electronic industries. The results are as follows: “Positive and active” team and “negative and passive” team were classified according to team personality composition. Compared to a negative and passive team, a positive and active team personality has higher conscientiousness, extraversion and lower neuroticism, and positive and active team´s virtualized level has better effect towards task performance and cooperation satisfaction.