The competitiveness in organizational entails to engender work conditions whereby trust among the employees and at every level of organizations is strong. Employees are committed and adhere to ethical values of the organization. These measures would enhance team performance which serves as a drive for the organization growth. This paper attempts to analyze the relationship of independent variable trust, organizational commitment and organizational ethics with the dependent variable team performance. A sample of 150 respondents was selected from public / private universities of Islamabad, Pakistan and by using AMOS and SPSS results were obtained. Reliability of instrument was ascertained which figure .708. Results reveal that trust in organization is 47% and organizational commitment has 21% impact on team performance. Whereas; relationship of ethics in organizations with the team performance did not demonstrate promising results. The reasons may be due to less effort to the ethical practices in their management system which would entails team performance in the organization. Future research would be conducted on the different areas of developing countries to check the practical implementation of ethical practices.
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