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Crossing the Line: Exploring Unethical Behavior's Impact on Psychological Safety and Job Performance in Agile Settings
Dijk, Sanne van (2024) Crossing the Line: Exploring Unethical Behavior's Impact on Psychological Safety and Job Performance in Agile Settings.
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| Abstract: | Unethical behavior of team members has been a profound problem for many organizations, even working agile. However, research on unethical behavior remains scarce, resulting in that little is known about the implications of team members’ unethical behavior. Research has proven psychological safety and job performance to be extremely important factors in achieving organizational success. Prompting these factors to be possibly impacted by unethical behavior, this research analyzed how team members’ observed unethical behavior is related to psychological safety and job performance. While at the same time utilizing novel observational research methods in order to reduce researcher or respondent bias, and employing psychological safety behaviors as proxies to identify unethical behavior, the data shows neither significant correlation between unethical behavior and psychological safety nor with job performance. In terms of theoretical implications, the research contributes to existing literature with the implication that psychological safety and job performance levels in organizations are not significantly affected by the presence of unethical behavior. Still recognizing its possible detrimental effects outside of this research, it is suggested that organizations engage in addressing unethical behavior, psychological safety, or job performance independently since managing unethical behavior on its own will not influence psychological safety or job performance. A practical recommendation for organizations is to enhance the quality of their ethics and compliance programs. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 85 business administration, organizational science |
| Programme: | International Business Administration BSc (50952) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/100206 |
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