Trust Context: Effect on Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Supervisory Fairness, and Job Satisfaction Beyond the Influence of Leader-Member Exchange

A meso-level perspective on trust is taken, focusing on the nature of relationships between supervisors and their subordinates and how these are affected by the level of trust within work units as a whole. Trust context is being defined as the overall level of trust within work units as a whole. Tru...

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Published in:Business & society 2002-09, Vol.41 (3), p.353-360
Main Author: Wech, Barbara A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior
Canada
Employees
Exchange Theory
Impact analysis
Job Satisfaction
Leader-member exchange
Leadership
Managers
Organizational Behavior
Psychological aspects
Social exchange theory
Studies
Subordinates
Superior Subordinate Relationship
Supervision
Supervisors
Trust
United States of America
Variables
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Summary:A meso-level perspective on trust is taken, focusing on the nature of relationships between supervisors and their subordinates and how these are affected by the level of trust within work units as a whole. Trust context is being defined as the overall level of trust within work units as a whole. Trust context is being defined as the overall level of trust that work group members have for their supervisor. It has been suggested that supervisory behavior is an important influence on the development of trust in relationships with subordinates. In turn, trust may have significant relationships with organizational outcome variables, such as organizational citizenship behavior, fairness of the supervisor, and job satisfaction.
ISSN:0007-6503
1552-4205
DOI:10.1177/0007650302041003006