Holding it all together: Promoting Integrity in Science Multiteam Systems
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Dubrow S, Kilmoski R, Fletcher L, Zaccaro S. Holding it all together: Promoting Integrity in Science Multiteam Systems. Oral presentation at 2017 SciTS Conference. Clearwater Beach, FL. Jun 13, 2017. Ethics And Integrity In Team Science. Online at: http://www.scienceofteamscience.org/2017-agenda.
Concerns around research integrity have grown
exponentially in the last ten years. The issues have
begun to extend beyond examples of data fabrication
and plagiarism to include more nuanced ones,
including failure to perform as promised, disputed
claims to intellectual property ownership, and the
inability to replicate findings or statistical standards
for research quality. These issues are often faced by
scientists participating in multidisciplinary teams (e.g.,
Edwards & Roy, 2017; Martensson, Fors, Wallin, Zander,
& Nilsson, 2016). These issues will be exacerbated
in scientific collective research where scientists are
part of multiteam systems (MTSs), which are groups
of teams, often interdisciplinary in nature, that are
brought together to solve problems that are significant
in scale and scope (Zaccaro, Marks, & DeChurch,
2012). Scientific MTSs may give rise to unique ethical
challenges. First, when multiple teams come together,
differentiation between component teams can lead
to disparities in perceived research practices and
potentially in ethical standards (Lotrecchiano, 2013;
Luciano, DeChurch, & Mathieu, 2015). Different
disciplines may have different norms for the scientific
publication processes, such as the level of validity
necessary to assert a given conclusion. Thus, MTSlevel
ethical leadership is a necessary precursor to
between-team commonality in ethical norms and
practices. Second, each team often has its own leader
who is focused mostly on their team’s mission, without
necessarily keeping the MTS mission in mind. A laissezfaire
leadership structure for the MTS can arise, causing
a failure in communication of moral issues for the MTS
and down to each component teams (Trevino & Brown,
2004). Due to these potential issues of integrity that
may arise in science MTSs, we aim to discuss how the
assembly process and MTS governance--including
boundary management, ethical leadership, norm
setting, and issues of free agency--can be structured to
promote scientific integrity in such collectives.
Language(s):
English
Type of Publication:
Oral presentation
Keywords:
scits 2017 conference, presentation, ethics, integrity
Addresses these goal(s):
- Learn about the field of team science: history, theory and concepts
- Conduct research on/evaluate team science
Resource created by Jane Hwang on 10/5/2017 10:02:01 AM.