The effectiveness of a team intervention to enhance team regulation in hybrid teams: a randomized controlled trial
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T1 - The effectiveness of a team intervention to enhance team regulation in hybrid teams
T2 - a randomized controlled trial
AU - Althammer, Sarah Elena
AU - Wöhrmann, Anne Marit
AU - Michel, Alexandra
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - This article evaluates the effectiveness of a team intervention for hybrid work teams. In the intervention, hybrid work teams engaged in team-regulatory strategies with the aim to improve hybrid team collaboration. In a cluster-randomized controlled trial, data from 478 individuals across 56 hybrid work teams working with flexible work designs (FWD, flexibility in where, when and how to work) were used to examine the intervention effectiveness on FWD-specific social support, psychological safety, and psychosocial management as an indicator of team collaboration. Teams were assigned to an intervention group that received the intervention immediately (n = 229) or to a waitlist control group (n = 249). Participants received questionnaires before and after the intervention and at a 9-week follow-up. The results of multilevel analyses showed that the intervention improved FWD-specific social support and psychological safety with small to medium effect sizes and psychosocial management with a large effect size. Team regulation mediated effects. Medium effects on team regulation and psychosocial management as well as a small effect on psychological safety persisted over 9 weeks.
AB - This article evaluates the effectiveness of a team intervention for hybrid work teams. In the intervention, hybrid work teams engaged in team-regulatory strategies with the aim to improve hybrid team collaboration. In a cluster-randomized controlled trial, data from 478 individuals across 56 hybrid work teams working with flexible work designs (FWD, flexibility in where, when and how to work) were used to examine the intervention effectiveness on FWD-specific social support, psychological safety, and psychosocial management as an indicator of team collaboration. Teams were assigned to an intervention group that received the intervention immediately (n = 229) or to a waitlist control group (n = 249). Participants received questionnaires before and after the intervention and at a 9-week follow-up. The results of multilevel analyses showed that the intervention improved FWD-specific social support and psychological safety with small to medium effect sizes and psychosocial management with a large effect size. Team regulation mediated effects. Medium effects on team regulation and psychosocial management as well as a small effect on psychological safety persisted over 9 weeks.
KW - Psychological safety
KW - psychosocial management
KW - randomized controlled trial
KW - social support
KW - team regulation
KW - Business psychology
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U2 - 10.1080/1359432X.2025.2562306
DO - 10.1080/1359432X.2025.2562306
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:105017724570
JO - European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
JF - European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
SN - 1359-432X
ER -