Applying Henry, Arrow, and Carini’s (1999) three-dimensional model, team-identifi-
cation is construed as a cognitive, emotional and behavioral bond between an individual
and a team. Team-identification constitutes a special type of social identification, reflect-
ing the degree to which individual team members experience a sense of ‘‘oneness’’ with
a particular organizationally based team (Gundlach, Zivnuska, & Stoner, 2006). Accord-
ing to the social identity theory (Hogg & Terry, 2000; van Knippenberg & van Schie,
2000) the need for self-definition and pursuit of a sense of meaning provide the primary
impetus for the process of identification. Strong identification with one’s team contrib-
utes to team members’ capability to attain self-construal and a sense of meaning.
Team-identification is an individual-level construct representing the extent to which an
individual member identifies with the team. Lembke and Wilson (1998) introduced the
term team-identity, purporting to a group level construct; namely, the collective level of
team-identification emerging across all members of the team. Thus, the group level con-
struct of team-identity is driven by the individual level construct of team-identification