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Trust and Team Performance: A Meta-Analysis of Main Effects, Moderators, and Covariates

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Applied Psychology, August 2016
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Title
Trust and Team Performance: A Meta-Analysis of Main Effects, Moderators, and Covariates
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Journal of Applied Psychology, August 2016
DOI 10.1037/apl0000110
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Authors

Bart A De Jong, Kurt T Dirks, Nicole Gillespie

Abstract

Cumulating evidence from 112 independent studies (N = 7,763 teams), we meta-analytically examine the fundamental questions of whether intrateam trust is positively related to team performance, and the conditions under which it is particularly important. We address these questions by analyzing the overall trust-performance relationship, assessing the robustness of this relationship by controlling for other relevant predictors and covariates, and examining how the strength of this relationship varies as a function of several moderating factors. Our findings confirm that intrateam trust is positively related to team performance, and has an above-average impact (ρ = .30). The covariate analyses show that this relationship holds after controlling for team trust in leader and past team performance, and across dimensions of trust (i.e., cognitive and affective). The moderator analyses indicate that the trust-performance relationship is contingent upon the level of task interdependence, authority differentiation, and skill differentiation in teams. Finally, we conducted preliminary analyses on several emerging issues in the literature regarding the conceptualization and measurement of trust and team performance (i.e., referent of intrateam trust, dimension of performance, performance objectivity). Together, our findings contribute to the literature by helping to (a) integrate the field of intrateam trust research, (b) resolve mixed findings regarding the trust-performance relationship, (c) overcome scholarly skepticism regarding the main effect of trust on team performance, and (d) identify the conditions under which trust is most important for team performance. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Unknown 668 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 126 19%
Student > Master 92 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 67 10%
Student > Bachelor 45 7%
Researcher 43 6%
Other 122 18%
Unknown 178 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 198 29%
Psychology 125 19%
Social Sciences 49 7%
Engineering 20 3%
Computer Science 16 2%
Other 73 11%
Unknown 192 29%
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