This thesis examines the characteristics and attitude of team members, the key roles of leaders, and team climate to identify key success factors for effective R＆D project teams. The characteristics of team members include goal orientation, need for achievement, and risk-taking propensity.
The attitude of team member is encompasses the job satisfaction, organizational loyalty, the intention of job change, the extent of motivation, and the recognition of team efficacy. The key roles of leaders are made up of expert, gatekeeper, planner, team builder, and champion. Innovative team climate consists of autonomy, innovativeness, cohesiveness, openness, fairness, business orientation, and supportness. Those factors are theoretically constructed and empirically tested in the 104 R＆D project teams of 9 Research Institute from domestic major electronic company.
The attitude and characteristics of members-job satisfaction, organizational loyalty, goal orientation, need for achievement, risk-taking propensity and the key roles of leaders - champion, expert/gatekeeper and team climate-innovativeness, supportness determine the team performance.
Thus, this study proved that three factors which were the characteristics of team members, the key roles of leaders and team climate determined the attitude of team members and also proved that the roles of leaders determined team climate.
It is examined that the performance of R＆D project team depends on the attitude of team members which is effected by the roles of team leader and team climate. The team climate is also effected by the roles of team leader. Thus, it is concluded that the key roles and characteristics of team leader are very important for the performance of R＆D project team.
