Team Trust Research Articles

Team Building and Sustainability of Lubricant Firms in Anambra State

In the dynamic landscape of the global economy, traditional hierarchical organizational structures are facing challenges in maintaining competitiveness, adaptability, and sustainability. This study delves into the crucial role of team building in nurturing sustainability, productivity, and cohesive relationships among employees, particularly within fiercely competitive industries like the lubricant sector in Anambra State, Nigeria. The research explored the historical roots of team building, tracing its origins to the industrial revolution, and highlights its contemporary relevance in the context of modern organizations. Despite the acknowledged importance of team building, this study aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of its specific impacts on employee relations, creativity, and performance within the Anambra lubricant sector. By examining empirical data and case studies, the paper aimed to shed light on how effective team building strategies can be implemented to achieve sustainable productivity in such highly competitive industries. The objectives include investigating the effects of team trust and team training on the environmental sustainability of lubricant firms in Anambra State. The study's findings revealed that team trust and team training significantly enhance the environmental sustainability of lubricant companies. These results emphasize the critical role of team building practices in improving sustainability and performance within the sector. The recommendations put forth include promoting impactful interactions among team members to foster trust, support, and understanding, as well as continuous evaluation of coaching-based training and development programs to enhance employee learning outcomes. This research contributes valuable insights to organizations seeking to optimize resources and achieve sustainable growth in competitive industries Keywords: Team building, Sustainability, Lubricant firms, Organizational performance, Employee relations, Productivity, Team trust, Team training

Highlighting bugs in software development codes using SDPET for enhancing security

The requirement for high-quality, inexpensive software that can be maintained is being driven by the rise in demand for automated online software systems. Early defect identification in SDLCs (Software Development Life Cycles) results in early adjustments and eventually on-time delivery of maintainable software, satisfying the client and fostering his trust in the development team. Many MLTs (Machine Learning Techniques) have been put out in the last ten years to increase SDP accuracy. Most of the suggested SDPs frameworks and models employ ANNs (Artificial Neural Networks), which are a popular MLTs. Software defect data are hampered by a number of problems, including duplication, correlation, feature relevance, and missing samples. However, because to the under/over fitting issues, most existing SDPs utilising ANNs have low accuracy. SDPET (Software Defect Predictions Ensemble Technique), an ensemble learning technique to produce accurate SDPs based on the AdaBoost algorithm, is proposed. The proposed schema's efficacy against RFs (Random Forests) and GBs(Gradient Boosts) for needed values through experiments. The experiment results verify that the suggested SDPET has good accuracy in training and better accuracy in test datasets when compared with other methods. The original obtained dataset was cleaned of unnecessary features, converted to csv, and is stored as dataset. csv.

Patient and staff perceptions of short procedural sedation with propofol for joint and fracture reductions in the Emergency Department: A qualitative study

BackgroundEmergency Department (ED) propofol sedation is widely used to facilitate reduction of fractures and dislocations, but little is known about patient and staff perceptions of the practice. Better understanding of these aspects may improve patient care. MethodsA qualitative exploratory study involving semi-structured patient interviews and ED healthcare professional focus groups. Interviews with adult patients (≥16 years) >1 hour after their sedation episode were audio-recorded, anonymised and transcribed verbatim to an electronic database. Thematic analysis using a general inductive method led to development of codes and themes. ED focus groups recordings were similarly transcribed and triangulated to patient interview outcomes. ResultsData saturation was reached after 16 patient interviews. Emergent central themes from a patient perspective were: ‘fear of the unknown’ and ‘expressed relief that the procedure was comfortable.’ Key themes included ‘trust in the clinical team,’ ‘efficacy of pain management prior to sedation’ and ‘quality of the information delivered to patients.’ Focus group discussions around patient interview outcomes identified triage, analgesia delivery, communication, and consideration of the environment as areas for improvement. ConclusionsED procedural sedation with propofol is generally very well accepted by patients and clinical staff but there is scope to improve patient-focus and increase satisfaction.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Trust Framework and Maturity Model: Applying an Entropy Lens to Improve Security, Privacy, and Ethical AI.

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technology have raised concerns about the ethical, moral, and legal safeguards. There is a pressing need to improve metrics for assessing security and privacy of AI systems and to manage AI technology in a more ethical manner. To address these challenges, an AI Trust Framework and Maturity Model is proposed to enhance trust in the design and management of AI systems. Trust in AI involves an agreed-upon understanding between humans and machines about system performance. The framework utilizes an "entropy lens" to root the study in information theory and enhance transparency and trust in "black box" AI systems, which lack ethical guardrails. High entropy in AI systems can decrease human trust, particularly in uncertain and competitive environments. The research draws inspiration from entropy studies to improve trust and performance in autonomous human-machine teams and systems, including interconnected elements in hierarchical systems. Applying this lens to improve trust in AI also highlights new opportunities to optimize performance in teams. Two use cases are described to validate the AI framework's ability to measure trust in the design and management of AI systems.

Trust in entrepreneurial teams: The role of team narratives

AbstractAlthough trust within the entrepreneurial team is critical for its success, we have limited insights into the antecedents of a founder's trust in the team. Taking a social information processing perspective, we theorize how entrepreneurial team narratives can play an important role in building a founder's cognition‐based trust in the team. We hypothesize that the team‐level structural dimensions of diversity and distinctiveness of topics in entrepreneurial team narratives are positively related to a founder's cognition‐based trust in the team and that these relationships are less positive when the founder perceives higher levels of resource scarcity. To test our hypotheses, we apply an automated topic modeling approach to quantitatively analyze interview and survey data from 102 founders across 43 complete entrepreneurial teams. Our study has implications for research on trust in entrepreneurial teams and entrepreneurial narratives, as well as methodological implications for using topic modeling to analyze other texts in entrepreneurship research.

Psycho-social needs of family members of patients hospitalized in the burn intensive care unit: A cross-sectional study

This study aimed to determine the psycho-social needs of the families of patients hospitalized in the burn intensive care unit (ICU). This cross-sectional study recruited 152 family members of patients hospitalized in the burn ICU, using the convenience sampling method. Data were collected from May to August 2018. The data collection instrument included the socio-demographic information questionnaire for first-degree relatives (FDRs), and the critical care family needs inventory (CCFNI). The data were analyzed using Spearman's correlation coefficient test. The average of the needs of family members of patients hospitalized in the burn ICU in the fields of support, information, proximity, comfort, and assurance were 27.69 (SD=2.45), 62.98 (SD=7.1), 73.79 (SD=3.2), 18.82 (SD=3.35), and 25.26 (SD=2.14), respectively. The most and lowest the needs of family members of patients hospitalized in the burn ICU were in the areas of proximity and comfort, respectively. There was a significant positive relationship between needs and assurance (ρ=0.162, P<0.05), information (ρ=0.264, P<0.05), support (ρ=0.698, P<0.05), proximity (ρ=0.618, P<0.05), and comfort subscales (ρ=0.692, P<0.05). Providing adequate and appropriate support for the burn’s patients and their families, especially by nurses, and noticing their primary needs reduces their anxiety, strengthens their trust in the medical team, enhances the quality of services to the patients and their families, and increases their satisfaction. Therefore, appropriate planning and increasing the workforce in these wards are essential.

The Influence of Team Social Responsibility in the Attitudinal Loyalty of Football Fans: The Mediating Role of Team Identity and Team Trust

The Influence of Team Social Responsibility in the Attitudinal Loyalty of Football Fans: The Mediating Role of Team Identity and Team Trust

Help is on the way: Effects of pre-response information and planning on communication and performance of simulated firefighting teams

This research aims to examine the effects of pre-response information and pre-response planning on a simulated firefighting team’s communication and performance outcomes. An effective emergency response (e.g., fire) inevitably depends on the information provided to a firefighting team before the response and planning for goals, roles, and actions. However, the effects of the pre-response information and pre-response planning activity before an emergency response have not been thoroughly investigated. A 2*2 between-subject experiment is designed to investigate how the completeness of information (more complete vs. less complete) and the structuredness of planning (structured vs. unstructured) affect team communication and performance such as mission completion time, perceived workload, self- efficacy and team trust. Work is in progress to recruit participants and collect data. We expect that findings would address the knowledge gaps regarding what pre-response information and planning activities make firefighting teams more effective in response to hazardous conditions.

Invoking team trust to facilitate performance management in the context of virtual teams

Purpose: Recent years have seen an upsurge in virtual working arrangements. However, many managers find it difficult to manage and motivate employees in the absence of face-to-face contact. Traditional, structured performance management approaches therefore need to give way to more holistic and technology-enabled approaches that are better suited to virtual work. This study set out to investigate how managers optimise the performance of virtual teams, with specific reference to the role of trust, both within and across teams. While there is growing interest in the role of trust as a driver of virtual team performance, there is insufficient convergence between the respective literatures on virtual teams, team trust and performance management, leaving a research gap.Design/methodology/approach: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 middle and top managers of virtual teams who worked in large companies in South Africa. The collected data were then subject to thematic analysis.Findings/results: These included: Virtual work can lead to a work–life imbalance; a lack of human contact can strain interpersonal relationships and erode trust; and optimal performance management in a virtual context depends on a trusting environment, clear and realistic goals, ‘agile management practices’ (including coaching and frequent feedback) and appropriate technologies.Practical implications: The study provides new insights into the challenges faced by middle managers in creating trusting and performance-geared relationships with virtual team members.Originality/value: The study expands on the existing team dynamics literature while also providing a convenient conceptual framework to guide future studies on the drivers of virtual team trust and optimal performance management.

호텔 조리팀에서 동료공감이 신뢰, 팀 몰입, 팀 협력행동에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구

This study aims to find out the relationship between peer empathy, trust, team commitment, and team cooperation behavior in the hotel cooking team. After that, the theoretical establishment was attempted from previous studies, research hypotheses were presented, and research models were derived. In order to verify the research hypothesis, a questionnaire was distributed to cooking workers at five-star hotels in Seoul and the metropolitan area. Finally, 275 parts of hypothesis verification were conducted. The hypothesis test results of this study show the findings as follows: Firstly, empathy for colleagues in the hotel cooking team has a positive and significant effect on cognitive and emotional trust. Second, cognitive and emotional trust positively and significantly influences team commitment. Third, cognitive and emotional trust positively and significantly affects team cooperation behavior. Lastly, team commitment has a positive and significant effect on team cooperation behavior. This study provides academic contributions to hospitality scholars and practical suggestions for hotel management.

Parents' understanding and experiences of blood component transfusion in the neonatal intensive care unit: A qualitative study.

Blood component transfusion is a common intervention in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Parents consent on their babies' behalf. This study aimed to explore parents' understandings and experiences of consenting and the subsequent blood transfusion. A "low inference" qualitative descriptive semi-structured interview approach was utilised. Grounded theory was employed. Parents described their memories of babies' transfusions, their responses to the consent process and assessed the written information they were given. A purposive sample of 17 parents whose babies required blood transfusion in the NICU participated. Parents talked about their initial fears of transfusion, later replaced by confidence in the process and results of transfusion and trust in the healthcare professional team. The main themes elicited by the interviews were parents' expectations and outcomes of transfusion, parents' prior and current opinions of transfusion, parents trust in healthcare professionals and how parents would like to receive information about transfusions in the NICU. Parents in our study trust information from the healthcare professionals caring for their baby and would like more specific information about how blood transfusion will impact their baby, in a variety of means. Parents felt that blood transfusions were beneficial for their babies.

Exploring the effect of automation failure on the human's trustworthiness in human-agent teamwork.

Introduction: Collaboration in teams composed of both humans and automation has an interdependent nature, which demands calibrated trust among all the team members. For building suitable autonomous teammates, we need to study how trust and trustworthiness function in such teams. In particular, automation occasionally fails to do its job, which leads to a decrease in a human's trust. Research has found interesting effects of such a reduction of trust on the human's trustworthiness, i.e., human characteristics that make them more or less reliable. This paper investigates how automation failure in a human-automation collaborative scenario affects the human's trust in the automation, as well as a human's trustworthiness towards the automation. Methods: We present a 2 × 2 mixed design experiment in which the participants perform a simulated task in a 2D grid-world, collaborating with an automation in a "moving-out" scenario. During the experiment, we measure the participants' trustworthiness, trust, and liking regarding the automation, both subjectively and objectively. Results: Our results show that automation failure negatively affects the human's trustworthiness, as well as their trust in and liking of the automation. Discussion: Learning the effects of automation failure in trust and trustworthiness can contribute to a better understanding of the nature and dynamics of trust in these teams and improving human-automation teamwork.

Impact of trust in virtual project teams: structural equation modelling approach

Purpose This study aims to focus on model development to analyse key factors affecting trust in virtual project teams (VPTs). Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire survey was conducted on construction professionals participating in virtual teams. Structural equation modelling technique was performed to establish the effect of relevant factors on trust-building in VPTs. Findings Team performance is highly affected by the trust among the team members. Trust building can be enhanced by improving the quality of team communication, organisation culture, team bonding and team members’ characteristics. Originality/value The model developed in this study would benefit team productivity and team members’ learning in VPTs.

Towards diagnostic excellence on academic ward teams: building a conceptual model of team dynamics in the diagnostic process.

Achieving diagnostic excellence on medical wards requires teamwork and effective team dynamics. However, the study of ward team dynamics in teaching hospitals is relatively underdeveloped. We aim to enhance understanding of how ward team members interact in thediagnostic process and of the underlying behavioral, psychological, and cognitive mechanisms driving team interactions. We used mixed-methods to develop and refine a conceptual model of how ward team dynamics in an academic medical center influence the diagnostic process. First, we systematically searched existing literature for conceptual models and empirical studies of team dynamics. Then, we conducted field observations with thematic analysis to refine our model. We present a conceptual model of how medical ward team dynamics influence the diagnostic process, which serves as a roadmap for future research and interventions in this area. We identified three underexplored areas of team dynamics that are relevant to diagnostic excellence and that merit future investigation (1): ward team structures (e.g., team roles, responsibilities) (2); contextual factors (e.g., time constraints, location of team members, culture, diversity); and (3) emergent states (shared mental models, psychological safety, team trust, and team emotions). Optimizing the diagnostic process to achieve diagnostic excellence is likely to depend on addressing all of the potential barriers and facilitators to ward team dynamics presented in our model.

Welcome to the New Way of Working Together: Team Trust in Flexible Hybrid Teams

Welcome to the New Way of Working Together: Team Trust in Flexible Hybrid Teams

How Significant Events and Team Trust Predict Member’s Exit in New Venture Teams

How Significant Events and Team Trust Predict Member’s Exit in New Venture Teams

Peran Kepercayaan Sebagai Mediasi Hubungan Identifikasi Tim dan Konflik

Conflict plays an important role in work organizations where good conflict management can benefit the organization as a whole. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between trust, team identification and conflict in teams both task conflict and relationship conflict. The study also examined the effect of the relationship between team identification and conflict in teams with trust in colleagues as mediators. This research is an empirical research with a quantitative descriptive approach. This research uses a case study model involving 252 employees at a maufaktur company and 219 employees at a large pharmaceutical company in the Central Java region. The findings showed that team identification was associated with lower levels of relationship conflict and task conflict. These relationships are mediated by trust in their co-workers The findings reveal concerns about the mechanisms by which employee attitudes influence performance behavior. The research also shows how managers and organizations create optimal levels of conflict in their teamwork.

Do Leadership Structure and Team Trust Drive Organisational Performance? Empirical Approach

Purpose: Over the years, manufacturing firms have struggled to achieve maximum productivity because such organizations lack good leadership, work-team, and persons with the team leading skills to lead work-teams. The problem of leadership structure of work-teams in most Nigerian firms was the motivating factor for this research. Thus, the aim of this paper is to assess the effect of team trust and leadership structure on performance of manufacturing firms in Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. Theoretical Framework: The theoretical framework is hinged on Self-Leadership Theory, which focused on participatory decision making, individual discretion and team work as important motivating factor and suggestions that will lead more committed employees who strive for greater efficiency and effectiveness. Design/Methods/Approach: Two specifics objectives are considered; the first being team trust and the other being leadership structure. Using a descriptive survey research design, 534 respondents in nine states in Nigeria were examined to obtain their perceptions. Findings: The results of the analysis indicated that the performance of manufacturing firms is dependent on team-work. In other words, acceptable and planned team-building had direct relationship with performance of firms. Research, Practical and Social Implication: The study shows that team trust and leadership structure are major drivers of organizational performance. Originality/Value: The value of the study is vital to manufacturing firms such that top management are advised to create teams whereby members should create increased trust among themselves by communicating openly and avoiding activities purely out of self-interest and reciprocating help from team mates for better results in manufacturing industries.

Paths to Team Success: A Configurational Analysis of Team Effectiveness

ABSTRACT This study investigates how two team processes (team learning, team conflict) and two team emergent states (team trust and team psychological safety) combine to yield three team effectiveness dimensions: team performance, quality of the group experience and team viability. Eighty-two teams (353 team members and 82 team leaders) were surveyed. Using a configurational approach, different routes that lead to the same outcome were identified. Moreover, the results suggest that the conditions that lead to high levels of team effectiveness are not the mirror opposite of the conditions that lead to low levels. The findings emphasize the importance of monitoring the effectiveness of a team in its different components and reinforce the notion that cognitive trust is a core condition for team success. Additionally, it is shown that the importance of intragroup conflicts for team effectiveness is contingent on the presence of other processes and emergent states.

Cultural Intelligence and Trust in Global Virtual Teams

A lack of cultural intelligence (CQ) creates a lack of trust in global virtual teams (GVTs). Study findings examine how leaders demonstrate CQ, trust in GVTs, and provide strategies for organizations. This qualitative single-case study explores how leaders of US-based GVTs in the financial industry demonstrate CQ and trust and strategies to develop trust. This study applies the social interaction theory, uncovering group identity and behaviors. Participants included GVT members and leaders having at least 1 year of experience on a GVT. The emerging themes were demonstrating CQ, demonstrating trust, and strategies to build trust.