The trickle-down effects of perceived trustworthiness on subordinate performance

Autor: Marius van Dijke, Leander De Schutter, Marshall Schminke, Jeroen Stouten, David De Cremer
Přispěvatelé: Behavioural Ethics, Department of Business-Society Management, Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of Applied Psychology, 103(12), 1335-1357. American Psychological Association Inc.
ISSN: 0021-9010
DOI: 10.17863/cam.26923
Popis: We study when and why perceptions of trustworthiness trickle down the organizational hierarchy to influence the performance of subordinates. Building on social learning theory, we argue that when supervisors perceive their managers as trustworthy, subordinates are more likely to also perceive their supervisor as trustworthy, which in turn enhances subordinate performance. We further argue that this trickle-down effect of trustworthiness perceptions emerges especially when the manager invites the supervisor to participate in decision-making. Finally, we propose that social learning processes that lead to supervisors exhibiting more trusting behavior toward their subordinates mediate this trickle-down effect. We find support for our predictions across one multisource field study (Study 1) and two experiments (Studies 2 and 3) that both use a yoked design. This research represents the first attempt to examine trickle-down effects related to trustworthiness, its impact on performance, and the mediating mechanisms by which those effects emerge. This research also provides the first empirical evidence about the role that social learning processes play in explaining trickle-down processes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved). ispartof: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY vol:103 issue:12 pages:1335-1357 ispartof: location:United States status: Published online
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