Distinguished Scholars Invited Essay: Are Secret Proceedings Why Longer Tenured Employees Trust Their Organizations Least?
| Autor: | Jone L. Pearce, Kenji Klein |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Sociology and Political Science Betrayal Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject Management Science and Operations Research Psychological contract betrayal secrecy State (polity) 0502 economics and business Secrecy human resource management implementation 050602 political science & public administration Openness to experience Sociology Business and International Management Adaptation (computer science) Legitimacy media_common ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION business.industry 05 social sciences human resources management implementation Business and Management trust Public relations 0506 political science psychological contracts tenure betryal business Course of employment 050203 business & management Other Economics |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, vol 24, iss 4 Pearce, JL; & Klein, K. (2017). Distinguished Scholars Invited Essay: Are Secret Proceedings Why Longer Tenured Employees Trust Their Organizations Least?. JOURNAL OF LEADERSHIP & ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES, 24(4), 437-449. doi: 10.1177/1548051817721850. UC Irvine: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6jj4j1wq Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, vol 24, iss 4 |
| ISSN: | 1939-7089 1548-0518 |
| Popis: | We address the effects of secrecy in organizational policy enforcement. First, the legal literature that explains why court proceedings are open is summarized: openness more effectively holds decision makers and claimants accountable for truthfulness and unbiased decisions, demonstrates that the rich or powerful have not bought off the weak, supports adaptation to changing norms, and enhances the legitimacy of state authority. Next, we propose that when organizational policy enforcement is kept secret from other employees, organizations lose these benefits. One reflection of these loses will be lower employee trust in their organizations the longer their tenure there. Using questionnaire data from a large U.S. governmental agency, we found that lower employee trust with tenure is incrementally linearly lower over the course of employment, not the result of an early breach of the psychological contract. This occurs for employees at all hierarchical levels but is steepest for nonsupervisory employees, suggesting that employees lack information about policy enforcement may be driving this phenomenon. |
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