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Author(s): | Silva, T. Cunha, M. P. Clegg, S. Neves, P. Rego, A. Rodriges, R. |
Date: | 2014 |
Title: | Smells like team spirit: opening a paradoxical black box |
Volume: | 67 |
Number: | 3 |
Pages: | 287-310 |
ISSN: | 1741-282X |
Keywords: | Groups Paradoxes Sport teams Teams Team spirit |
Abstract: | Despite the common usage of the term, researchers and practitioners have not been able properly to explain what team spirit is and what benefits and drawbacks it might bring to teams. Several definitions have been proposed, but not in a consistent manner. Using a qualitative approach, we worked with one football team to shed light on how individuals experience and characterize team spirit. Our results suggest that team spirit is built around four paradoxes: these are a paradox of selfless egoism; a paradox of results; a paradox of conflict, and a paradox of relationships. Essentially, team spirit can be viewed as an inter-subjectively shared facility with which individual members of a team can balance opposing tensions in a consistent way, managing to maintain a healthy synthesis between individual and collective needs and expectations, preventing the team from dominating the individuals, as well as specific individuals from capturing the team |
Peerreviewed: | Sim |
Access type: | Embargoed Access |
Appears in Collections: | BRU-RI - Artigos em revistas científicas internacionais com arbitragem científica |
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