Zailani, B M; Ibrahim, Y M; Abdullahi, M; Dania, A and Abubakar, M (2023) Constructing the team: A personality-based perspective to team absorptive capacity. In: Tutesigensi, A and Neilson, C J (eds.) Proceedings of 39th Annual ARCOM Conference, 4-6 September 2023, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Abstract
Recent research has shown that personality traits can impact a team member's contribution to the team, which can in turn affect the team's absorptive capacity and performance. This paper provides theoretical foundations for the formulation of a model to explore how individual personality traits interact with relational learning activities to improve team absorptive capacity and performance based on the Myer's Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality framework. It is argued that potential absorptive capacity which constitutes acquisition and assimilation capacities is influenced by the extroversion-introversion (E-I) and sensing-intuition (S-N) personality traits taxonomies of individual team members. Similarly, the individual thinking-feeling (T-F) and judging-perception (J-P) personality traits taxonomies were argued to influence realized absorptive capacity of the project team which constitutes transformation and exploitation capacities. The proposed interactions presented in this paper are based on a literature review, therefore empirical investigations are needed to validate the proposed arguments and relationships. Nonetheless, this paper can serve as a starting point for future academic efforts.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | absorptive capacity; MBTI; personality traits; project team; team performance |
| Index terms: | exploitation, transformation, acquisition, taxonomies, team performance, investigation, project team, literature review, performance-based, intuition, absorptive capacity, interaction, personality, foundations |
| Subjects: | behavioral psychology, structural engineering, knowledge organization and systems, cognitive psychology, business, management, data analysis and analytics, theoretical framing, performance measurement, project delivery, data collection methods |
| Topics: | Organizational Design, Quality Management, Project Management, Research Practice, Business Strategy, Information Management, Engineering Principles |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTA |
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