Multilevel Trust in Organizations - Theoretical, Analytical, and Empirical Advances

This book examines the multilevel nature of trust in organizations, including its temporal dynamics, functions in unique contexts, and the mutually-influencing relationship with organizational structures.

List of contents

Introduction - Multilevel trust: A theoretical and practical imperative

1. Conceptualising time as a level of analysis: New directions in the analysis of trust dynamics

2. Trust development processes in intra-organisational relationships: A multi-level permeation of trust in a merging university

3. Contextualising the coevolution of (dis)trust and control – a longitudinal case study of a public market

4. Job insecurity, employee anxiety, and commitment: The moderating role of collective trust in management

5. Trust development across levels of analysis: An embedded-agency perspective

About the author

Ashley Fulmer is Assistant Professor of Management at Georgia State University. Her research focuses on trust dynamics in organizations and levels of analysis theory and research. She is on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Review and Personnel Psychology and an associate editor for Journal of Trust Research.

Kurt Dirks is Bank of America Professor of Leadership and Vice Chancellor of International Affairs at Washington University in St. Louis. He is known for his research on the determinants, barriers, and outcomes of trust within organizations and published multiple highly cited and award-winning articles on the topic.

Summary

This book examines the multilevel nature of trust in organizations, including its temporal dynamics, functions in unique contexts, and the mutually-influencing relationship with organizational structures.

Product details

• Assisted by: Kurt Dirks (Editor), Ashley Fulmer (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.2024
• EAN: 9781032839325
• ISBN: 978-1-03-283932-5
• No. of pages: 124
• Weight: 680 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology, Organizational theory & behaviour, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Occupational & industrial psychology