Team effectiveness analysis based on the team diagnostic survey by Hackman et al.: Development and Testing of the Polish Version

Abstract

This paper presents an attempt to apply the Team Diagnostic Survey, an instrument intended for the evaluation of team performance, in the Polish business environment. Developed by Professor Richard Hackman from Harvard University and his collaborators, the TDS has been based on years of research and existing theoretical knowledge on circumstances that foster team effectiveness. Until now, the instrument has been implemented in the United States of America, where it has contributed practical insights into performance of more than one hundred work teams. In this work particular attention is focused on the preparation and pilot implementation of this research instrument in Poland. The author presents the description of the TDS, its conceptual foundation, the empirical properties and the procedure of the data analysis. Then, the issue of the adaptation process of the TDS, with special emphasis on the translation, is considered. Finally, empirical testing of the questionnaire is discussed in the context of further implementation of the TDS in the Central and Eastern Europe.