THE EFFECT OF TEAM COHESION ON PEER JUSTICE: A TEAM-LEVEL ANALYSIS

Abstract

This study was conducted to examine the relationship between team cohesion and peer justice (procedural, interpersonal, informational) and to test whether female team leadership and team task type had moderating effect on the relationship between team cohesion and peer justice. The design of research was based upon survey data obtained from questionnaires distributed to 415 team member in 66 service and production teams in Turkey. The individual responses of team cohesion and peer justice were aggregated to the team level since the theoretical level of the study was team. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to test hypotheses in the model. As predicted, the findings indicated that team cohesion was positively associated with peer procedural justice, peer interpersonal justice and peer informational justice but neither female team leadership nor team task type had moderating effect on the relationship between team cohesion and all dimensions of peer justice. (C) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.uk