SMU Guildhall Graduate Catalog Spring 2019 — Cohort 27 | Page 66

Hershall Cook Production « The Relationship Between Team Trust, Team Power Distance, and Team Performance on Small Game Development Teams Over the past year, I conducted research My research demonstrated that there and team power distance on team between between intrateam trust and investigating the effects of team trust performance. Firstly, I examined research from other industries to identify performance factors that I believed would be relevant to game development. Secondly, I conducted interviews and administered surveys measuring the studied variables on 11 Team Game Production 1 teams at SMU Guildhall. Finally, I used statistical software to determine relationships between trust, power distance, and performance. 66 PRODUCTION is a significant positive relationship team performance. In practice, this means that video game producers should emphasize building trust to improve team performance.