Does multiple team membership enhance employee adaptive performance in an inclusive climate? From a cognitive and affective integration perspective

As organizations continuously optimize human resource utilization efficiency, employee participation in multiple teams has become the norm in workplaces. Previous studies have confirmed that multiple team membership (MTM) can exert certain double-edge effects on employees. However, can employees engaged in MTM enhance their adaptive performance through cognitive and affective development in an inclusive climate? To address this question, drawing on the cognitive-affective personality system theory, we conducted multi-timepoint surveys among 413 employees to examine how MTM influences adaptive performance. Our study investigated the chain-mediated effects of role breadth self-efficacy (cognitive) and harmonious passion (affective), as well as the moderating role of inclusive climate perception. We found that MTM independently indirectly influences adaptive performance through role breadth self-efficacy and harmonious passion, as well as their combined chain-mediated effect. Most importantly, only when employees perceive a high level of inclusive climate, the positive impacts of MTM on role breadth self-efficacy and harmonious passion are amplified, and the chain mediation effect on adaptive performance becomes more pronounced.