A June, 1994, Fortune Magazine heralded changes in the "work-style" of production workers. The old style has been a hierarchical chain-of-command. (This is mathematically equivalent to the lattice which I describe in a "mathtivity" for preschool children, Pecking Order. It is still the work-style of military services.) The new work-style of production workers is the web, wherein worker-power derives from connections to others who provide information and assistance, while disseminating and advancing the worker's ideas and achievements.

Management expert, Peter Drucker, in The New Realities (1989), wrote similarly about "knowledge workers" in the "information-based organization", composing "task-focused teams" working toward common goals.

Clearly, ethical behavior is involved in teamwork.