Trust and Team Effectiveness

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Industrial Psychology Department BComm. Human Resource Management Organisational Psychology (775:2014) Prof. Amos Engelbrecht Individual Paper: Organisational Trust and Team Effectiveness Surname: Bouah Name: Lauren Samantha 16724143 Date: 12 March 2014 Contents Page Introduction……………………………………………………….3 Team Effectiveness…………………………………………….....4 Organisational Trust……………………………………………....6 Definitions………………………………………………………...9 Structural Elaborated Model……………………………………...10 Empirical Relationship…………………………………………...11 Measurement……………………………………………………..13 Managerial Implications………………………………………….14 Conclusion………………………………………………………..14 References………………………………………………………...15 Introduction There are many relationships that are built on trust. Trust is extremely important, especially within the organisational context. Moreover, Organisational Trust is highly important and is stressed in many organisations between employees, in employee work groups as well as work teams. The purpose of this paper is to explain the relationship between Organisational Trust and Team effectiveness, the importance of Team Effectiveness, which is the dependent variable, will be stressed, followed by the importance of the independent variable, which is Organisational Trust. Research has been done to obtain definitions that have been asserted by various studies. This will help grasp the proper knowledge of both Organisational Trust and Team Effectiveness. A Structural Elaborate model will be demonstrated, consisting of Organisational Trust as the independent latent variable demonstrated and the other variables which make up Team Effectiveness. An Empirical relationship between Organisational Trust and Team effectiveness will be stressed and the measurements of both variables will be elaborated. After researching
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