Hershall Cook
Production
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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.
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is a significant positive relationship
team performance. In practice, this
means that video game producers should
emphasize building trust to improve team
performance.