The Impact of Team Based Performance Management on Team Effectiveness in the Irish Health Service Assessing the Intervening Roles of Team Empowerment and Time MSc in HRD and Performance Management

The primary aim of this study is to gain a better understanding of the manner in which team based performance management (TBPM) influences team effectiveness by exploring the extent to, and the manner in, which team empowerment mediates that relationship. It further seeks to examine whether team leaders and team members hold different perceptions and what impact the passage of time might have on those perceptions. A sample of the population in the research organisation that was using TBPM was surveyed by means of a self-completion postal questionnaire. A cross-sectional research design was chosen and a quantitative methodology adopted. The survey was conducted over a one-month period from 23rd June to 23rd July 2008. The findings to the three research questions are as follows: 1. Team empowerment was found to partially mediate the relationship between TBPM and team effectiveness, suggesting that other mediating forces may be at play. Further analysis identified the process characteristics of TBPM as bein