Cognitive versatility and adaptation to fluid participation in hospital emergency department teams.

ABSTRACT: Role-based frameworks have long been the cornerstone of organizational coordination, providing clarity in role expectations among team members. However, the rise of "fluid participation"-a constant shift in team composition and skill sets-poses new challenges to traditional coordination mechanisms. In particular, with fluid participation, a team's roles can oscillate between disconnected and intersecting, or between lacking and having overlap in the capabilities and expectations of different roles. This study investigates the possibility that a disconnected set of roles creates a structural constraint on the flexible coordination needed to perform in volatile contexts, as well as the mitigating role of cognitive versatility in a team's strategically-central member. Utilizing a sample of 34

SUBMITTER: Aggarwal I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10927813 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature