The role of justice in development of temporary teams: Evidence from the high-tech industry

Piotr Rogala, Bartosz Bartniczak, Tomasz Brzozowski, Marta Kusterka-Jefmańska, Marta Moczulska, Agnieszka Panasiewicz, Adam Płachciak and Sabina Zaremba-Warnke

Nowoczesne Systemy Zarządzania. Modern Management Systems, 2023, issue 4, 69-88

Abstract: Justice is a category that significantly impacts corporate performance. It has been shown in many scientific publications that it affects, among other things, the motivation and commitment of employees, shapes the atmosphere in the workplace and influences employee performance. However, research has yet to be done on the effect of justice on the effectiveness of temporary teams (set up for a limited time to solve a problem or carry out a project), even though such teams are now a common form of teamwork. This study is intended to fill an identified research gap. Its purpose is to determine whether justice affects the effectiveness of temporary teams in an organisation and, if so, whether all types of justice affect that effectiveness to the same extent. A main hypothesis was formulated: All kinds of justice (procedural, distributive, interpersonal and informational) have the same effect on the effectiveness of the temporary work team. The modified Colquitt scale was used. Differences in the impact between types of justice on the effectiveness of teams have been assessed using the U-Mann-Whitney test. The paper uses the results of a survey conducted among 110 managers from high – tech industry with experience with temporary teams. Based on their information, it has been established that justice has a significant impact on the effectiveness of temporary teams, and the importance of different types of justice varies. The most important in this respect is informational justice. Interpersonal and distributive justice is slightly less important (there is no statistically significant difference between them). Procedural justice ranked third. Based on the results of the research, it can be pointed out that managers should pay attention to the perception of fairness of temporary team members. Above all, they should take care of the communication aspects, including in particular, the sharing of crucial information with employees of this type of team.

Keywords: justice; types of justice; temporary team; teamwork; high-tech (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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