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Describing, explaining, and predicting employee and work team behaviors, and understanding how and why they may change and exhibit dynamicity over time, are central questions for organizational behavior researchers. However, the sheer complexity of human behavior is drastically increased when an individual or team is considered as a holistic constellation of attributes, characteristics, and traits. This complexity is further increased by numerous calls for greater consideration of time in organizational behavior studies and for research that is longitudinal and temporally sensitive (eg, Mathieu, Maynard, Rapp, & Gilson, 2008; Vantilborgh, Hofmans, & Judge, 2018). Together, modern organizational behavior research calls for complex cutting-edge analytical procedures that match the complexity of real-world phenomena. Fortunately, fast-paced methodological advancements, coupled with increasing levels of …