Team Learning, Work Behaviors, and Performance: A Qualitative Case Study of a Technical University in Ghana

Eli Ayawo Atatsi, Jol Stoffers and Ad Kil
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Eli Ayawo Atatsi: Department of Management Sciences, Ho Technical University, Ho P.O. Box HP 217, Volta Region, Ghana
Jol Stoffers: Faculty of Management, Open Universiteit of The Netherlands, 6419 AT Heerlen, The Netherlands
Ad Kil: Entrepreneurship, Governance and Stewardship Center, Nyenrode Business Universiteit, 3621 BG Breukelen, The Netherlands

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 24, 1-16

Abstract: Higher education institutions in Ghana have a lot of expectations but appear to be facing contemporary challenges. Using five focus groups, this study explores individual learning, team learning, organizational citizenship behaviors, leader–member exchanges, innovative work behaviors, and performance in a Ghanaian technical university. Interactive exchanges suggest that individual social behaviors and leadership exchanges are important to higher educational institutions (HEIs). Both stakeholders and managers should activate these behaviors and leadership qualities to enhance performance. The inherent benefits help both faculty and HEIs fulfill their core mandates of teaching, research, and community service. With these, they remain globally competitive given challenges, dynamism, and expected performance from both faculty and HEIs as agents of socio-economic development. This study informs on underlying mechanisms that affect engagement in some of these behaviors, including the effect of culture as an inhibitor of women’s innovative behaviors. Next to that, it provides both theoretical and practical evidence for stakeholders, especially HEI managers, regarding how to increase faculty members’ efficiencies and performance. Finally, the study offers both recommendations and directions for future research.

Keywords: team learning; work behaviors; leader–member exchanges; qualitative design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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