Organizations commonly face the task of allocating workers to mutually exclusive teams from finite worker pools-a process called seeding. The approach an organization takes to seeding affects within-team and between-team distributions of performance or other outcomes. Substantial prior research explains the effects of combinations on team performance, but little is known about between-team combinations. I extend prior theory to a higher level of analysis, elaborating on the nature and function of between-team combinations on organization-level performance. I use a simulation method to identify seeding approaches that can maximize organizational outcomes in various contexts. Results uncover conditions under which the seeding approach is irrelevant to outcomes, instances where random assignment outperforms intentional seeding, and instances where particular approaches produce the most favorable outcomes. I discuss the implications of multilevel combinations for theory and practice. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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一分耕耘一分收获：从工人池到团队的分配的多层次调查。

组织通常面临着从有限的工人池中将工人分配到互斥团队的任务，这个过程称为播种。组织采取的播种方法会影响团队内部和团队之间的绩效或其他结果的分布。先前的大量研究解释了组合对团队绩效的影响，但对团队之间的组合知之甚少。我将先前的理论扩展到更高层次的分析，详细阐述了团队间组合对组织层面绩效的本质和作用。我使用模拟方法来确定可以在各种情况下最大化组织成果的播种方法。结果揭示了播种方法与结果无关的条件、随机分配优于有意播种的情况，以及特定方法产生最有利结果的情况。我讨论了多层次组合对理论和实践的影响。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。