Team Virtues and Performance: An Examination of Transparency, Behavioral Integrity, and Trust

Virtue-based research in business ethics has increased over the last two decades, but most of the research has focused on the actions of an individual person. In this article, we examine the associations among team-level virtues using data from two studies. Specifically, we investigate whether trans...

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Published in:	Journal of business ethics 2011-03, Vol.99 (2), p.201-216
Main Authors:	Palanski, Michael E., Kahai, Surinder S., Yammarino, Francis J.
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Applied psychology Associations Attitudes to work Behaviour in groups Business Business and Management Business Ethics Conceptualization Discriminants Education Employees Ethics Group behavior Individual ethics integrity Least squares Management Modeling Occupational achievement Organizational behavior Philosophy Professional ethics Quality of Life Research Salespeople Statistical analysis Statistical variance Studies Teams Teamwork Transparency Trust Values Virtue ethics virtues
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Summary:	Virtue-based research in business ethics has increased over the last two decades, but most of the research has focused on the actions of an individual person. In this article, we examine the associations among team-level virtues using data from two studies. Specifically, we investigate whether transparency (usually thought to be an organizational-or collective-level construct), behavioral integrity (usually thought to be an individuallevel construct), and trust (usually thought to be an individual-level construct) can be conceptualized and operate at the team level of analysis and, if so, what their relationships are to team performance. Using Partial Least Squares (PLS) analysis, we found in both studies that team transparency was positively related to team behavioral integrity, which in turn was positively related to team trust. We also found evidence of a positive relationship between team trust and team performance. Implications of these findings for future teams and ethics research are discussed.
ISSN:	0167-4544 1573-0697