1. Justice climates and management team effectiveness: The central role of group harmony
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Ali Fehmi Ünal, Katherine Xin, Chao C. Chen, Uludağ Üniversitesi/İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi., and Ünal, Ali Fehmi
- Subjects
Procedural justice ,Work ,Rewards-allocation preferences ,Strategy and Management ,Helping behavior ,Team effectiveness ,Business & economics ,050109 social psychology ,Group-performance ,Organizational justice ,Method bias ,Group harmony ,Intragroup relationship ,0502 economics and business ,Mainstream ,Team performance ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Justice (ethics) ,Business and International Management ,Harmony (color) ,Relationship conflict ,05 social sciences ,Justice climate ,Power distance ,Management ,Value theory ,Social-exchange ,Fairness ,Social Exchange Theory ,Fairness Perceptions ,Team helping behavior ,Interactional justice ,Ethical leadership ,Psychology ,Social psychology ,050203 business & management - Abstract
Although social harmony is one of the most important cultural values in many of Asian societies it has rarely been studied in the mainstream management literatures. Based on the group-value theory of justice we examined how group justice climates influence group effectiveness through group harmony. Analyses of data on 106 upper-level management teams from Chinese organizations showed that justice climates were positively associated with group harmony, which in turn was positively associated with team task performance and team helping behavior. Group harmony was found to significantly mediate the positive effect of both distributive and interactional justice climates on team helping behavior but only marginally on team task performance. Finally, in support of past research both at the group and individual level, procedural justice climate had the weakest effect on group processes and outcomes. By applying the group value theory on group harmony this paper aims to integrate Eastern and Western perspectives on one hand and the justice climates and group harmony research on the other. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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- 2017