Team Building and Organizational Ambidexterity: A Relational Analysis

Authors:

Namrata Nanda,Siddharth Misra,Rajith K.R,

DOI NO:

https://doi.org/10.26782/jmcms.2019.10.00003

Keywords:

Team Building,Organizational Ambidexterity,Psychological Safety,Employee Commitment to change,Moderated mediation,

Abstract

This paper aims to identify and test the relationship of Team Building andOrganizational Ambidexterity by prompting bank employees to engage in commitment towards change.A structured questionnaire was prepared and distributed among employees of selected public and private banks across the country. A total of 240 valid responses were gathered from this survey using snowball and convenience sampling techniques. Descriptive statistics, regression analysis and factor analysis was used to interpret the results of the collected data. The analysis of data has been carried by using IBM SPSS and AMOS 20 version. The major takeaway of this research highlights the private sector banks where the commitment of employee towards change impacted team building leading to high ambidexterity as compared to that of public sector banks. Also, the results of the hypotheses formulated, holds true to the relationship of Team Building and Organizational Ambidexterity becomes stronger with a mediator Employee Commitment to Change and moderator, Psychological Safety in place.This research reflects on the importance of managing interpersonal threats hidden within every committed employee with the help of psychologically safe work environment and thus, promoting a strong culture of team spirit and being an ambidextrous organization. This paper confirms the effect of Team Building on Organizational Ambidexterity through Employee Commitment to Change and unlocks the dark box of how organizations can become ambidextrous by adding novelty to this research with the presence of Psychological Safety as a moderator.

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