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Is playfulness a road to trust and performance?

Authors: Pereira, Hugo Miguel Bravo Pestanudo;

Is playfulness a road to trust and performance?

Abstract

This dissertation investigated the influence of playfulness on team trust and performance within organizational settings, exploring how integrating playfulness at work impacts team dynamics, focusing on whether playfulness fosters team trust and improves performance. In the context of changes in technology and organizational culture that impact today’s organizational work settings, in a knowledge-driven economy where flexibility, creativity and knowledge-sharing are crucial, the integration of play and playfulness at work can be a strategic approach that transcends its instrumentality. Drawing from the literature on playfulness and team trust, this dissertation aimed to fill research gaps, particularly around the perspective of playfulness at the team-level and its effects on team trust and performance, further exploring the mediating role of team trust in this relationship. Using an experimental design involving teams from diverse organizations, participants were exposed to different stimuli, including a playfulness team intervention, before engaging in competitive tasks. Data was collected before and after the team competition to assess the relationships between playfulness, team trust, and performance. Findings suggest that playfulness at the team-level positively impacts team trust, which in turn enhances performance, with team trust acting as a mediator in this relationship. These results provide insights into the mechanisms through which playfulness enhances team dynamics and organizational outcomes, demonstrating that playfulness fosters psychological safety, encourages open communication, and strengthens collaboration within teams supporting also creativity and innovation processes. Therefore, playfulness can be address as a strategic tool influencing both organizational outcomes and strategical processes.

Esta dissertação investigou o impacto de playfulness nos níveis de confiança e desempenho de equipas em contexto organizacional, explorando como a sua integração no local de trabalho influencia dinâmicas de grupo, em particular procurando entender se promove uma maior confiança entre colegas e melhora o desempenho. No contexto de mudanças tecnológicas e de cultura organizacional que atualmente afetam os locais de trabalho, numa economia baseada em conhecimento, onde a flexibilidade, criatividade e partilha de conhecimento são cruciais, a integração de playfulness no local trabalho pode ter uma abordagem estratégica que transcende a sua instrumentalidade. Procurou-se então preencher as lacunas encontradas na literatura, relativamente à perspectiva de playfulness como variável de equipa e os seus efeitos na confiança e desempenho das mesmas, explorando ainda o papel mediador da confiança neste relação. Recorrendo a um desenho experimental envolvendo equipas de diversas organizações, os participantes foram expostos a diferentes estímulos, incluindo uma intervenção playfulness, antes de se dedicarem as tarefas competitivas. Os dados foram recolhidos antes e após esta competição para avaliar as relações entre as variáveis estudadas. Os resultados sugerem que a playfulness ao nível da equipa influencia positivamente a confiança intra-equipa, o que, por sua vez, melhora o desempenho, com a confiança intra-equipa a atuar como mediadora nesta relação. Playfulness mostrou-se eficaz para promover segurança psicológica, incentivar uma comunicação aberta e fortalecer a colaboração, apoiando assim processos de criatividade e inovação. Dessa forma, playfulness pode ser considerada uma ferramenta estratégica que influencia tanto resultados organizacionais como processos estratégicos.

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Portugal
Keywords

Ludicidade, M12, Play, M Business administration and business economics - Marketing - Accounting - Personnel economics, M54, Team building, Confiança intra-equipa, Jogos -- Games, Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão, Playfulness climate, Team performance, Playfulness, Desempenho, Construção de equipa, Team trust

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