TY - JOUR
T1 - The Contextual Antecedents of Organizational Trust
T2 - A Multidimensional Cross-level Analysis
AU - Li, Peter Ping
AU - Bai, Yuntao
AU - Xi, Youmin
PY - 2012/7
Y1 - 2012/7
N2 - In this article we seek to explore the contextual antecedents of organizational trust. In light of the complex links between organizational contexts and organizational behaviours, we focus on the effects of the three most critical contextual antecedents, i.e., leadership role, structural rule, and cultural norm at the organizational level, on organizational trust directly, and their behavioural outcomes at the individual level indirectly, using organizational trust as a cross-level mediator. The empirical results, based on a hierarchical linear model with a sample of 444 employees from 82 firms in China, lent support for our multidimensional cross-level model of context-trust-behaviour link. We extend the research on organizational trust by treating it as a cross-level phenomenon and by specifying its core contextual antecedents and behavioural consequences.
AB - In this article we seek to explore the contextual antecedents of organizational trust. In light of the complex links between organizational contexts and organizational behaviours, we focus on the effects of the three most critical contextual antecedents, i.e., leadership role, structural rule, and cultural norm at the organizational level, on organizational trust directly, and their behavioural outcomes at the individual level indirectly, using organizational trust as a cross-level mediator. The empirical results, based on a hierarchical linear model with a sample of 444 employees from 82 firms in China, lent support for our multidimensional cross-level model of context-trust-behaviour link. We extend the research on organizational trust by treating it as a cross-level phenomenon and by specifying its core contextual antecedents and behavioural consequences.
KW - Contextual antecedent
KW - Cross-level analysis
KW - Cultural norm
KW - Leadership role
KW - Organizational trust
KW - Structural rule
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2011.00219.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2011.00219.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84863453779
SN - 1740-8776
VL - 8
SP - 371
EP - 396
JO - Management and Organization Review
JF - Management and Organization Review
IS - 2
ER -