Isabel Dimas

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at University of Coimbra

Purpose – The purpose of this paper was to contribute to a deeper understanding of the effects of transformational leadership on team performance, examining the role of team psychological capital (team PsyCap) and teamlearning behaviours as intervening mechanisms in that relationship. Design/methodology/approach – A quantitative study with a cross-...

This study explores the relationship between team cohesion and team learning by adopting a nonlinear approach. A quantitative study with a sample composed of 82 organizational teams was conducted. Radial basis function (RBF) interpolation models were used, and results showed that the best predicting ability was obtained by the Thin Plate RBF model,...

Demands for greater quality of public services and enhanced efficiency have intensified changes in public organizations. Not surprisingly, these organizations are increasingly searching for new and useful ideas, including disruptive ones, to meet current demands. Whereas previous studies on team radical creativity have focused on the influence that...

The formation of confronted subgroups in a group can be harmful for collaboration. Thus, reducing the salience of in-subgroup and out-subgroup distinctions is crucial for reducing group conflict. The present study examines whether an online intervention in emotion regulation techniques could be useful for reducing conflict and, subsequently, improv...

This study investigates how teamwork management influences the levels of team members’ satisfaction both directly and indirectly, through its influence on reducing task conflict. Three hundred and fifty-eight team members from 88 teams were surveyed. A two-wave data collection procedure was implemented with a time lag of about two months. Due to th...

Facilitated by technology, and boosted by the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual work has become common in organizations. Recognizing the fundamental role of emotions on workers’ well-being and performance, this chapter is centered on the emotional side of working in virtual environments. In face of the specific demands of remote work to both the individua...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze the configurational effect of transformational leadership, team conflict, team cohesion and psychological safety on team learning. Design/methodology/approach The questionnaire and two different data sources (team members and team leaders) were used as data collection strategy. Based on a sample of 8...

This research study focused on team learning behaviours, particularly the extent to which teams use learning behaviours over time, as well as the influence of different team cultures on learning behaviours over time. Data from 33 university project teams were collected longitudinally at three moments (beginning, halfway point, and end of the projec...

Despite the growing attention which green human resource management (GHRM) has been gaining, the field is still remarkably young, and conceptual clarity is yet to be attained. A bibliometric review of GHRM from 2010 to 2020 was conducted on the Web of Science and analyzed using the VOSviewer software package, version 1.6.16 developed by Van Eck and...

This research aimed, firstly, to define a conceptual model that considers potential resources/challenges (Physical, Cognitive, Emotional, Social, Material, Environmental, Digital) and describes how those influence the Internet use and modify human behavior during life transitions (e.g., changing school, finding a job). Secondly, starting on that mo...

The primary goal of this study was to elaborate an integrated model on the development of Internet use behavior (including functional and not functional use) across life span, by outlining the interaction among Physical, Cognitive, Emotional, Social, Material, Environmental, Digital resources, and challenges. Moreover, since the focus was on the tr...

Virtuality is noticeably present in organisations and influences the way people interact within teams. This study involved 104 organisational teams with some degree of virtuality and intends to analyze a moderated-mediation model in which virtuality moderates the indirect effect of team conflict on team effectiveness and innovation through team tru...

The main purpose of the present research was to analyze the relationship between team psychological capital and innovation, considering team learning as a mediating variable. A field survey was carried out, which included 124 work teams belonging to organizations from different sectors of activity. Hypotheses were tested through PROCESS. Results su...

The current challenging organizational context demands that organizations adapt quickly and continuously in order to survive and maintain their competitive advantage. Considering this need, one of the responses given by companies has been the valorization of work teams and their capacity for innovation, as well as fostering positive skills and emer...

The study aims to test how the association between leader’s centrality (outdegree and betweenness) in the group network, considering both workflow and friendship ties between leader and members, and the perception of team performance is mediated by the leader’s satisfaction with the team. The research included a total of 74 formal leaders of organi...

Based on a factorization provided by the Partial Least Square (PLS) meth-odo-logy, the construction of a biplot for both exploratory and predictive purposes was shown to visually identify patterns among response and ex-planatory variables in the same graph. An application on a team effective-ness research, collected from 82 teams from 57 Portuguese...

The purpose of this study is to analyse the relationship between transformational leadership and team process improvement, considering the role played by team psychological safety. We argue that by giving support to the team, a transformational leader will promote an atmosphere where people feel safe enough to take risks and to question current pro...

Based on a factorization provided by the Partial Least Square (PLS) methodology, the construction of a biplot for both exploratory and predictive purposes was shown to visually identify patterns among response and explanatory variables in the same graph. An application on a team effectiveness research, collected from 82 teams from 57 Portuguese com...

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Purpose This paper is focused on team learning, the fourth discipline proposed by Senge (1990) in his seminal book The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. This paper aims to provide a reflection upon the journey that this construct has made since this book’s publication, in terms of conceptualization, research and i...

Resumo O atual contexto económico marcado pela globalização, internacionalização, inovação e tecnologia exige que cada profissional possua um vasto leque de competências, tanto as da vertente técnica própria de cada profissão, quanto as chamadas soft skills ou competências pessoais e transversais, cada vez mais em destaque na nova realidade organiz...

This article describes the experience of developing, and piloting, a Non-Formal Academy, for developing student’s competences to work in international and virtual teams, that took place under the scope of the European Project CATCH-IT. The experience involved the collaboration of educators and students from Portugal, Denmark and Poland, and consist...

This paper examines team learning within a nonlinear dynamical system (NDS) perspective. Research has successfully identified various conditions that promote learning behaviors in teams. In the present study, our focus is on the role played by team culture and by social cohesion as supporting conditions of team learning. Previous studies revealed t...

Higher Education Institutions have been increasingly pressured to promote the employability of their graduates and to develop a set of skills essential to the labor market. On the other hand, graduates’ integration in the labor market has become gradually more difficult and competitive, leading students to look for new and improved methods to incre...

The purpose of this study was to clarify the role of team resilience on different facets of effectiveness (team viability and quality of the group experience). Moreover, given the importance of team resilience for the organizational context, it was also our aim to contribute to the study of the conditions that promote team resilience, analyzing the...

This paper investigates the effects of transformational leadership on team effectiveness. In particular, we studied the effects of transformational leadership on three criteria of team effectiveness: viability, team process improvement, and quality of group experience. In addition, we examined the indirect effect of transformational leadership on t...

Teams are now a structural feature in organizations, and conflict, which is recognized as an inescapable phenomenon in the team context, has become an area of increased research interest. While the literature shows contradictory results regarding the impact of conflicts on teams, the strategies used to manage them have shown that can help to explai...

As emoções desempenham um papel fundamental nas situações conflituais, na medida em que todo o conflito é fonte de tensão. O presente estudo, de carácter experimental, tem como objetivo explorar a relação entre o conflito grupal e as emoções vividas pelos membros do grupo. Tendo por base uma amostra composta por 10 grupos, distribuídos por duas con...

The aim of the present study was to analyse the mediator role of supportive behaviours in the relationship between transformational leadership and four team effectiveness criteria: performance, viability, quality of group experience, and improvement processes. An empirical study was conducted with a sample of 653 participants from 117 teams from di...

O presente artigo visa descrever o processo de construção e estudo das qualidades psicométricas da Escala de Satisfação Grupal (ESAG). No primeiro estudo (n = 321 membros/77 equipas), procurou avaliar-se a estrutura interna da ESAG através de uma Análise Fatorial Exploratória. Os resultados revelaram uma estrutura unidimensional que foi confirmada...

From a developmental perspective, workgroups adjust and modify the way they function over time. The present study aims to test, at the group level, the moderating role of the group’s life phase in the relationship between workgroup interdependence ties in terms of task, outcome and functions, assessed by social network density and group satisfactio...

Team effectiveness has been the focus of numerous studies since teams play an increasingly decisive role in modern organizations. In the present paper, our attention is centered on team viability, which is one dimension of team effectiveness. Given the challenges that actual teams face today, exploring the conditions and processes that enhance the...

The aim of this study is to adapt and consequently validate the Global Transformational Leadership measuring scale (GTL). The scale was therefore applied to a sample of 456 members of 70 work groups, belonging to 26 organizations. The factorial structure of the scale was analysed through the exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor...

The close relationship between higher education institutions and businesses is a major facilitator of students’ access to their first job opportunities, as well as a channel for reciprocal transfer of knowledge and innovation. Curricular internships have attracted increasing interest both from students seeking competitive qualifications and from co...

The present research aims (a) to assess the impact that a learning context has on people, namely in terms of their affective well-being at work; and (b) to understand the role of individual growth need strength in this relationship. A cross-sectional research design was conducted, in which were surveyed 145 public service workers. A structured addi...

Based on an intra-team longitudinal approach and the group development patterns proposed by Li and Roe (2012), we analysed the occurrence of different patterns of change in group trust as well as the impact of different patterns or categories of patterns of trust on team satisfaction. With a sample of 24 project groups and using a visual-analogue s...

As a dynamic, complex and multidimensional human process, communication implies a social relation based on which subjects share a certain meaning. Bearing in mind that each social system in which subjects interact is founded and developed through communicational acts, communication is also, therefore, the core of organizational life, organization,...

This paper examines team learning behaviors within a nonlinear dynamical system (NDS) perspective. The present research is based on a sample of 36 project workgroups, where data were collected at two moments of their life cycle, with visual analogue scales. Using both the least squares method and maximum likelihood, it proposes a cusp catastrophe m...

The study of team effectiveness has received significant attention in recent years. Team effectiveness is an important subject since teams play an increasingly decisive role on modern organizations. This study is inherently a multicriteria problem as different criteria are typically required to assess team effectiveness. Among the different aspects...

Introduction and objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of team coaching (provided by the leader and by peers) on team performance and on the members' satisfaction with the team. The mediated role of peer coaching in the relationship between leader coaching and individual and team results was also analyzed. Method Adopting...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of coaching behaviours provided by peers and by the leader on the emotions experienced by interprofessional health and social care teams and on members’ satisfaction with the team, as well as on team performance. Data were obtained from a survey among 344 employees working in 52 interprofessional...

A utilização de equipas como forma de estruturar e materializar o trabalho a desenvolver é uma realidade nas organizações. Conhecer o funcionamento das equipas de modo a aumentar a sua competitividade e desempenho é pois um objetivo importante a alcançar. Este livro, de um modo claro e acessível, apresenta instrumentos de avaliação de equipas de tr...

The study is part of a research whose goal is identifying what predictors determine either a positive or a dysfunctional use of Internet. The factor at stake is here social support. Specifically our study, carried out through an online questionnaire, hypothesized a moderation of Offline Social Support in the relationship between Online Social Suppo...

The effects of intragroup conflict and conflict management on team out- comes were analyzed in two empirical studies with a multilevel approach. In the first study, 68 production teams from eight industrial companies were surveyed. In the second study, we analyzed 77 workgroups from 14 companies. Hierarchical regression analysis was computed to tes...

Nowadays, with the unemployment reaching unprecedented high rates in Portugal, is important to understand the level of entrepreneurial intention among Portuguese students. Giving the present difficulty for youngsters to obtain a first job, is vital that education programs encourage and contribute to entrepreneurship development. The main goal is th...

This study seeks to analyze a) if the frequency with which group choose to use a certain strategy is associated with the type of conflict represented in a given situation and b) if, for different types of conflict, different conflict handling patterns (the frequency of their use) could be considered significant predictors of group effectiveness, me...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper was to contribute to the clarification of the conditions under which teams can be successful, especially those related to team learning. To attain this goal, in the present study, the mediating role played by team members’ motivation on the relationship between team learning conditions (shared learning beliefs an...

The purpose of this study was to contribute to the clarification of the conditions under which teams can be successful. To attain this goal, the direct and interactive effects of diversity and of the team’s cultural orientation towards learning on team outcomes (team performance, team members’ satisfaction) were analyzed. Data were obtained from a...

With the purpose of studying the phenomenon of coaching teams, by leaders and peers, and their repercussions in terms of emotions, conflicts and effectiveness, 75 teams of 22 Portuguese organizations were analyzed. The results revealed the existence of a positive relationship between the two types of coaching analyzed. A positive influence of these...

67 Eficácia, emoções e conflitos grupais: a influência do coaching do líder e dos pares 1 Grupal effectiveness, emotions and conflicts: the influence of leader and peer coaching Resumo Com o objetivo de estudar o fenômeno do coaching de equipes, de líderes e pares, e a sua influência nas emoções, conflitos e eficácia grupal, foram analisadas 75 equ...

Resumo: Com o objetivo de estudar o fenómeno do coaching de equipas, de líderes e pares, e a sua influência nas emoções, conflitos e eficácia grupal, foram analisadas 75 equipas pertencentes a 22 organizações portuguesas. Os resultados obtidos revelaram a existência de uma relação positiva entre os dois tipos de coaching analisados. Verificou-se ta...

Resumo: o conceito de sistemas multi-equipas (SME), introduzido recentemente na comunidade científica por Mathieu et al. (2001), baseia-se na ideia de " equipas de equipas " criadas para aumentar a eficácia da resposta em ambientes turbulentos que exigem múltiplas competências e especializações coordenadas para atuar em interdependência na prossecu...

This work proposes an approach to cluster and sort a set of alternatives considering multi‐criteria categories with a partial order structure. It can be considered a heuristic approach because it does not attempt to derive an optimal partial order among all conceivable clusters of alternatives. Rather than this, it intends to be a simple approach t...

Resumo: Com base na teoria dos sistemas dinâmicos não lineares (NDS), e no âmbito do desenvolvimento grupal, esta investigação teve como objectivo a construção e validação de conteúdo de um instrumento de avaliação de alguns processos grupais (e.g., liderança, conflitos, comunicação, interdependência, coesão, cultura). A criação/adaptação dos itens...

O estudo das emoções no contexto dos grupos e equipas de trabalho tem vindo a ganhar relevo nas investigações realizadas no campo das ciências organizacionais (Bartel & Saavedra, 2000). No entanto, esta importância é ainda muito recente, o que se reflecte numa escassez de instrumentos que permitam aceder a este constructo (Ramalho, Monteiro, Louren...

A importância crescente dos grupos no seio das organizações torna premente a investigação neste domínio. Assim, é essencial conhecer o seu funcionamento e compreender as suas dinâmicas. Com o presente estudo procuramos perceber, tendo por base o Modelo de Inteligência Emocional Grupal de Druskatt e Wolff (2001a, 2001b), de que forma a Inteligência...

With the present article we intend to clarify if the type of conflict present in work teams has significant impact on teams’ affective outcomes (positive and negative emotions). Moreover, we aim to test the hypothesis that the link between task conflict and team emotions is mediated by socio-affective conflict. Data was collected from 60 teams/grou...

TÍTULO: O conflito e os seus consequentes na eficácia grupal: o papel mediador das emoções. AUTOR(ES): Ana Paula Giordano¹ (anagiordano@ucp.pt), Isabel Dimas (idimas@ua.pt)² e Paulo Renato Lourenço (prenato@fpce.uc.pt)³ INSTITUIÇÃO: ¹Universidade Resumo Nos últimos anos, os estudos desenvolvidos na área dos conflitos intragrupais têm apontado para...

There is a lot of research done about the impact of intragroup conflict on team effectiveness (e.g., Dimas, 2007; Jehn, 1995, 1997; Jehn&Mannix, 2001). However, the results are inconsistent. With our study we intend to contribute for a better understanding of the relationship between intragroup conflict (task conflict and relationship conflict) and...

The central aim of the present research is to contribute to the clarification of the conditions under which teams can be successful. To attain our goal, the direct and interactive effects of diversity and of the team’s cultural orientation towards learning on team outcomes (team performance, team members’ satisfaction, team members’ quality of life...

O modelo de Inteligência Emocional Grupal de Druskat e Wolff (2001a; 2001b) apresenta seis dimensões caracterizadoras da Inteligência Emocional, situadas a três níveis de análise, e constituídas por normas que, teoricamente, despertam e regulam as emoções nos grupos/equipas. No presente estudo, foi adaptado para a língua portuguesa o Group Emotiona...

Introdução O conflito é um fenómeno inevitável na vida organizacional: emerge nas relações entre indivíduos de um mesmo grupo, entre grupos, entre os di-ferentes níveis organizacionais, entre organizações. Uma organização é um sistema complexo, onde se interligam diferentes competências, conheci-mentos, capacidades e actividades, de cuja adequada c...

Introdução Apesar de os estudos sobre grupos e fenómenos sociais colectivos re-montarem a muitos séculos atrás a procura de compreensão e a análise/ estudo sistemático do fenómeno dos pequenos grupos é muito mais recente. Com efeito, os primeiros artigos começaram a aparecer somente por volta de 1900, de Lourenço (2002), e também Dimas (2007), cons...

312 312/319 | www.cienciaytrabajo.cl | AÑO 12 | NÚMERO 36 | ABRIL / JUNIO 2010 | Ciencia & Trabajo Introducción Realidad ineludible en las organizaciones, los grupos/equipos de trabajo se asumen, en la actualidad, como un factor estratégico que permite a las empresas obtener ventaja competitiva (Morgan et al. 2001). Se torna, entonces, crucial perc...

306 306/311 | www.cienciaytrabajo.cl | AÑO 12 | NÚMERO 36 | ABRIL / JUNIO 2010 | Ciencia & Trabajo INTRODUCCIÓN La era del conocimiento nos lleva a reevaluar los antiguos formatos laborales y, consecuentemente, a hacer hincapié en el papel de los grupos de trabajo dentro de las organizaciones (Cross y Rieley 1999; Wheelan 1999). Teniendo en cuenta...

Against the traditional perspective of intragroup conflict, that viewed this phenomenon as negative to group performance, the recent approaches argue that conflict stimulates creativity and the innovation of workgroups. Nonetheless, the empirical studies developed didn’t find support to the positive effect of conflict in­‑group functioning. In this...

RESUMO: As abordagens tradicionais do conflito sublinham o seu carácter prejudicial e postulam que o seu evitamento contribui para manter a estabilidade do grupo, essencial para o alcance dos objectivos grupais. A perspectiva em que nos situamos considera, no entanto, que os conflitos, além de inerentes à vida organizacional e grupal, podem impulsi...