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12 - How Next-Generation Teams and Teaming May Affect the Ethics of Working in Teams

from Part II - Business Enterprises

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2019

By
Scott S. Wiltermuth  and
Alyssa J. Han
Edited by
Ali E. Abbas
Ali E. Abbas
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
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Summary

The way people work in teams is changing. The changes are affecting what work teams look like and how those teams function. In years past people worked for the same organizations for many years, perhaps even their whole careers (see Sullivan, 1999 for review). Because their colleagues also stayed in the same organizations for many years, they were likely to work on teams that had relatively stable memberships. This has changed. People now switch employers more frequently and they change roles within organizations more often (Miles & Snow, 1996; Rousseau & Wade-Benzoni, 1995). They are also more likely to work as independent contractors rather than as employees of the company and seek to develop a “boundaryless career” defined as “a sequence of job opportunities that go beyond the boundaries of a single employment setting” (DeFillippi & Arthur, 1996, p. 116).

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Next-Generation Ethics
Engineering a Better Society
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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