An examination of the effects of organizational district and team contexts on team processes and performance: a meso-mediational model

We examined the effects of organizational district and team contexts on team processes and performance in a longitudinal cross-level design. As hypothesized, at the team-level of analysis, interdependence related positively to team performance as partially mediated by processes. Moreover, a cross-level mediational relationship was evident between the organizational district-level openness climate and team performance as fully mediated by team processes. In contrast, organizational district-level multi-team coordination unexpectedly exhibited a direct cross-level relationship with team performance. Multi-team coordination also negatively interacted with team processes as related to team performance, in an exploratory analysis. Results are discussed in terms of the importance of considering both organizational-district and team contexts as embedding conditions that influence team effectiveness.