Abstract:

With the intensification of the pressure of social competition, involution becomes a very common social phenomenon. In study 1, from the perspective of organizational behavior, we extracted the items of the team involution scale with qualitative interviews and questionnaires, then we developed a team internalization scale suitable for enterprise employees. Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis showed that the team involution scale is composed of two dimensions: over-refinement and over-competition, and the reliability and validity of the scale involution are acceptable. In Study 2, we further used the self-designed team involution scale to explore the mechanism of team involution on team performance. The results show that team job involvement and team negative emotion play parallel mediating roles in the relationship between team involution and team performance. On the one hand, team involution can improve employees’ team job involvement and further promote team performance. On the other hand, team involution can also trigger negative emotions and weaken team performance.

Key words: team involution, team job involvement, team negative emotion, team performance