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Item Group harmony in the workplace: Conception, measurement, and validation(Springer, 2016-12) Chen, Chao C.; Leung, Kwok; Xin, Katherine R.; Ünal, Ali Fehmi; Uludağ Üniversitesi/İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi/İşletme Bölümü.; 55157729800Based on a literature review of Chinese traditional philosophies and social science research on social harmony we formulated the group harmony construct, developed a scale, and tested its validity in two studies on 167 top management groups from China. Study 1 demonstrated convergent and discriminant validity of group harmony and evaluated its predictive validity against well-established constructs of relationship conflict, task conflict, group cohesiveness, psychological safety, and conflict avoidance. Study 2 further examined the construct and nomological validity of group harmony and tested the effects of group harmony and found that, as hypothesized, group harmony enhanced group innovative performance through increasing knowledge sharing among group members. However, instead of motivating innovative performance through fostering moderate levels of task conflict, group harmony enhanced innovative performance through reducing task conflict on the one hand and neutralizing the negative effect of task conflict on the other. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.Item Group harmony in the workplace: Conception, measurement, and validation (vol 33, pg 903, 2016)(Springer, 2016-12) Chen, Chao C.; Leung, Kwok; Xin, Katherine R.; Ünal, Ali Fehmi; Uludağ Üniversitesi/İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi.; IPQ-4113-2023; 55157729800Item Justice climates and management team effectiveness: The central role of group harmony(Cambridge University, 2017) Chen, Chaochuan Chao; Xin, Katherine R.; Ünal, Ali Fehmi; Uludağ Üniversitesi/İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi.; 55157729800Although social harmony is one of the most important cultural values in many of Asian societies it has rarely been studied in the mainstream management literatures. Based on the group-value theory of justice we examined how group justice climates influence group effectiveness through group harmony. Analyses of data on 106 upper-level management teams from Chinese organizations showed that justice climates were positively associated with group harmony, which in turn was positively associated with team task performance and team helping behavior. Group harmony was found to significantly mediate the positive effect of both distributive and interactional justice climates on team helping behavior but only marginally on team task performance. Finally, in support of past research both at the group and individual level, procedural justice climate had the weakest effect on group processes and outcomes. By applying the group value theory on group harmony this paper aims to integrate Eastern and Western perspectives on one hand and the justice climates and group harmony research on the other. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.