Employee perceptions of organisational legitimacy as impersonal bases of organisational trustworthiness and trust

• Main Authors: LAMERTZ, Kai, BHAVE, Devasheesh P.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Organisational trust; organisational legitimacy; trustworthiness; institutional theory; Organizational Behavior and Theory; Organization Development
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5354; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6353/viewcontent/Employee_perceptions_of_organisational_legitimacy_as_impersonal_bases_of_organisational_trustworthiness_and_trust.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Prior research has amply demonstrated that employees’ personal relationship with the organisation influences their trust in it. In this two-study investigation, we examine how employees’ beliefs about the organisation’s legitimacy relate to their organisational trust because legitimacy signals organ...