Personnel Review: Volume 32 Issue 5

Introduction: trust within organisations

Katinka Bijlsma, Paul Koopman

Introduces six empirical studies on trust within organisations which were originally presented at a workshop on “Trust within and between organisations”, organised by the European…

Trust within organisations

Tom R. Tyler

It has been recognised that there is importance of trust within organisations. There is also a recognised theme that trust must move beyond rational or calculative trust to…

Engendering trust in manager‐subordinate relationships: Predictors and outcomes

Julia Connell, Natalie Ferres, Tony Travaglione

The recent growth in the trust literature indicates that both researchers and practitioners are continuing to recognise its importance as a factor for determining organisational…

Commitment, trust and work behaviour: The case of contingent workers

Dick de Gilder

In this study differences in trust, commitment and justice perceptions were investigated between contingent and core employees in two hotels, as well as their effects on work…

Work team trust and effectiveness

Ana Cristina Costa

This article aims to explore the nature and functioning of trust in work teams. Trust is defined as a multi‐component variable with distinct but related dimensions. These include…

Instrumental and relational determinants of trust in management among members of works councils

Peter Kerkhof, Annemieke B. Winder, Bert Klandermans

In Western Europe, works councils are a common form of indirect employee participation in management decision making. Trust is often assumed to play an important role in the…

Antecedents of trust in managers: a “bottom up” approach

Katinka M. Bijlsma, Gerhard G. van de Bunt

Research on antecedents of trust has, so far, yielded results that do not easily stand up to confrontation with the widely‐held assumption of bounded rationality. By employing…

Trust: Forms, Foundations, Functions, Failures and Figures

Guido Möllering

Trust within and between Organizations. Conceptual Issues and Empirical Applications

Antoinette Weibel