Research on the Relationship Between Informational Team Faultline and Team Resilience—Team Leader Member Exchange and Team Member Exchange as Mechanism

Figures & data

Figure 1 The influencing factors and moderating effect. (A) The influencing factors and intervention mechanisms of team resilience. (B) The moderating effect of TLMX on the relationship between ITF and team resilience. (C) The moderating effect of TMX on the relationship between ITF and team resilience.

Table 1 Reliability and Validity Analysis

Reliability, CR, and AVE Values of Variables
Variable		Cronbach’s α		CR		AVE
ITF		0.863		0.852		0.713
TLMX		0.834		0.893		0.542
TMX		0.889		0.927		0.619
Team resilience		0.821		0.877		0.654
Results of Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Model	Factor	χ^2/df	CFI	TLI	RMSEA	RMR
Three-factor model	ITF, TLMX, TMX	2.149	0.945	0.938	0.078	0.052
Two-factor model	ITF+TMX, TLMX	7.694	0.828	0.806	0.137	0.102
Two-factor model	ITF+TLMX, TMX	7.714	0.827	0.806	0.137	0.106
Two-factor model	ITF, TLMX+TMX	18.955	0.538	0.481	0.225	0.192
Single-factor model	ITF+TLMX+TMX	23.275	0.421	0.353	0.251	0.210

Abbreviations: CR, composite reliability; AVE, average variance extracted; χ²/df, degree of freedom in Chi-Squared test; CFI, comparative fit index; TLI, Tucker-Lewis index; RMSEA, root-mean-square error of approximation; RMR, root mean square residual; ITF, informational team faultlines; TLMX, team leader-member exchange; TMX, team member exchange.

Table 2 Mean, Standard Deviation, Correlation Coefficient, and AVE Square Root of Variables

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1. Team size	–
2. YOWT	−0.044	–
3. Leadership tenure	−0.151	0.078	–
4. ITF	0.044	−0.104	−0.077	0.844
5.TLMX	−0.205	0.072	0.210	−0.380**	0.736
6.TMX	−0.142	0.287**	0.043	−0.391**	0.215*	0.786
7. Team resilience	−0.232*	0.356**	0.079	−0.457**	0.438**	0.530**	0.808
Mean	5.062	2.889	3.061	3.782	3.880	3.479	3.760
SD	1.334	1.072	1.049	0.604	0.537	0.655	0.552

Notes: **Indicates p<0.010, *indicates p<0.050, and the diagonal blackened data is the AVE square root.

Abbreviations: ITF, informational team faultlines; TLMX, team leader-member exchange; TMX, team member exchange; YOWT, years of working together.

Table 3 Aggregation Analysis and Hypothesis Testing

Aggregation Analysis
Variable	r*wg	ICC(1)	ICC(2)	MSW	MSB
ITF	0.754	0.291	0.673	0.492	1.504
TLMX	0.729	0.148	0.464	0.545	1.017
TMX	0.716	0.307	0.689	0.568	1.828
Regression Analysis Results of Main Effect and Mediating Effect
Variable	TLMX	TMX	Team Resilience
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4	Model 5
Team size	−0.165	−0.119	−0.202*	−0.157	−0.163
YOWT	0.015	0.246*	0.304**	0.300**	0.224*
Leadership tenure	0.156	−0.022	0.007	−0.050	0.001
ITF	−0.359**	−0.362**	−0.417**	−0.292**	−0.284**
TLMX				0.304**
TMX					0.325**
R^2	0.204	0.228	0.345	0.405	0.427
F	5.259**	6.054**	10.809**	11.023**	12.064**

Notes: r*_wg represents within-group agreement; ICC(1) represents reliability of score within group; ICC(2) represents reliability of internal group score. **Indicates p<0.010, * indicates p<0.050.

Abbreviations: MSW, mean squares within groups; MSB, mean squares between groups; ITF, informational team faultlines; TLMX, team leader-member exchange; TMX, team member exchange; YOWT, years of working together.

Table 4 Analysis Results of Moderating Effect

Variable	Team Resilience
	Low TLMX	High TLMX	Whole Sample	Low TMX	High TMX	Whole Sample
	Model 6	Model 7	Model 8	Model 9	Model 10	Model 11
Team size	−0.243	−0.075	−0.162	−0.145	−0.219	−0.126
YOWT	0.293*	0.231	0.254**	0.156	0.393**	0.252**
Leadership tenure	−0.036	−0.283	−0.052	0.080	0.063	0.018
ITF	−0.468**	−0.139	−0.289**	−0.489**	−0.147	−0.278**
TLMX			0.262**
TMX						0.294**
ITF*TLMX			0.216**
ITF*TMX						0.229**
R^2	0.428	0.192	0.406	0.351	0.307	0.453
F	9.588**	2.073	9.102**	4.182**	5.090**	11.034**

Notes: **Indicates p<0.010, *Indicates p<0.050.

Abbreviations: ITF, informational team faultlines; TLMX, team leader-member exchange; TMX, team member exchange; YOWT, years of working together.