Abstract
The purpose of this study is to understand the dynamics between the accumulation of interpersonal trust and its effectiveness in a team situation, and a longitudinal study was conducted on self-managed project teams. It has been about 25 years since the concept of the evolution of trust has been proposed, but there are few studies empirically analyzing it. This study examined how calculative trust and knowledge-based trust change over time in the project team, and verified how initial trust and changes in trust over time affect team effectiveness. Team satisfaction, interpersonal citizenship behavior and learning were selected as team effectiveness variables. Since a newly established team is needed to verify the evolution of trust, an experimental study was conducted through project teams performing at two university classes of the same course. This is to control the conditions of the project team as much as possible. The team members of the study conducted three projects jointly during one semester, and at the end of each project, changes in trust and team effectiveness variables were measured. As results of the analyses, it was found that there were significant changes in both calculative trust and knowledge-based trust, and it was confirmed that the initial trust and subsequent changes in both trust dimensions had differential effects on team satisfaction, interpersonal citizenship behavior, and learning. In addition, autoregressive cross-lagged model test was conducted to examine the causal relationship of the study variables in detail. Based on the results of the study, academic and practical implications are summarized.
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