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Corruption is an influential and widespread problem. One part of it is so-called petty corruption, related to large-scale bribe giving by ordinary citizens trying to influence the works of public administration or public services. As it is with all means of corruption, petty corruption is related to the level of democracy (or administration efficiency) in a society. The developed model captures some of the factors related to corruptive behavior, as well as people's attitude towards petty corruption. It has four basic elements: user's perception of corruption in the society of interest, the influence of social interactions, the influence of penalizing mechanism, and influence of campaigns against petty corruption. The model is agent-based, developed in NetLogo, with a lot of random settings that provide a wider scope of responses. Interactions of different settings for variables of elements provide insight into the influence of each element on attitude towards petty corruption, as well as petty corruptive behavior.

Team performance varies depending on the organization of their members, the exploitation of their synergies and their planning to optimally meet the minimum requirements with the best results. This article reports a dual‐purpose methodology. First, we use the soft systems methodology to start up viability‐driven teamwork based on team complexity, a better understanding of idiosyncrasy, and the synergies leveraging team behavior. The viable systems model is used to propose the essential functions of a team that effectively operates in dynamic organizational environments. Second, this research provides guidance for training teams to apply holistic thinking in their problem‐solving practice by helping them to co‐integrate and apply systemic approach for immersive problem solving. In essence, this article reports success drivers, generic teamwork structures and viability accomplishment references for agilely, effectively and synergistically launching teams. We wrap up by discussing the lessons learned from applying this approach to several teams and outline future developments. © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.