抄録
At both the individual and team level within a work group/organization, each unit (e.g. individual, team) could learn not only from their own experience, but also from the experiences of the others units. This study examined the effects of others’shared experiences in the first individual task trial on the team performance of the subsequent team task trials. An experiment with 48 female undergraduates (16 teams) revealed that in the first individual task trial, the performance of the ‘shared experience condition’ was higher than it was for the ‘no shared experience condition’. In the second and third team task trials, the effects of the shared experiences were not statistically significant. However, in the ‘no shared condition’, the third performance was higher than the second trial’s performances. Furthermore, the reflections on the experience after the third trial of the ‘no shared condition’ were higher than the reflections of those for the ‘shared condition’. These results showed that the effect of the shared experience positively and directly occurred during individual-level task trial. By contrast, the effect of no shared experience might had a positive and indirect effect on team performance through its influence on individual reflections on experience.
