A Study to Explore the Team Virtualization Level and Team Effectiveness from the Team Personality Composition

Types of organizations have changed with the rapid development of information and technology, and “virtual team” is the newest type of work group. Generally, team composition affects team effectiveness. Most team composition researches focused on the visible characteristics, such as demographic variables, but the implicit personality variables were ignored. Regarding personality traits, based on the “Big Five” factors, including neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, this study explores team personality composition of the virtual team, and the effect of team personality composition on team virtualization level and team effectiveness. This study sent out 188 sets of questionnaires for virtual teams from 49 enterprises in the information and electronic industries. Finally, the study sample consisted of 62 completed team questionnaires (including 62 team leaders and 234 team members). The results are as follows: “Positive and active” team and “negative and passive” team were classified according to team personality composition. Compared to a negative and passive team, personality traits of a positive and active team have higher conscientiousness, extraversion and lower neuroticism, and positive and active team virtualization level has better effect to task performance and cooperation satisfaction.