Researchers have established that trust is critical to organizational effectiveness. Being trustworthy yourself, however, does not guarantee that you are capable of building trust in an organization. That takes old-fashioned managerial virtues like consistency, clear communication, and a willingness to tackle awkward questions. It also requires a good defense: You must protect trust from its en...

successful advent to knowledge era requires that different structural, cultural, technological and human perquisites; the subject that has been neglected by many. hence, this research deals with identifying the needed cultural factors in according with knowledge management success in organization. the main question is: what are cultural factors in according to knowledge management success in or...

the main purpose followed in this study was to evaluate the role of social capital on organizational learning (ol) of jihad-e-agriculture organization's staffs. the statistical population consisted of all staffs of jihad-e-agriculture organization in kurdistan province (n=150). applying census, a questionnaire was sent to all the members of the study from whom 124 members finally filled in...

Purpose – This study aims to explore the impact of affect-based and cognition-based trust of co-workers on the willingness of professionals to share and use tacit knowledge. Design/methodology/approach – The relationships were examined through data provided by a sample of 202 professionals and managers in world headquarters of an international organization. Findings – The levels of both types o...

Historically, builders of CSCW tools have not focused on the creation of trust among users as a critical design goal. Yet, high levels of trust produce a number of benefits, including reduced coordination and communication costs. These benefits are particularly salient and desirable for geographically distributed workers. Therefore, to the extent that support for geographically distributed work...

One of the most important factors in human interaction and communication is trust. Each organization performing its quotidian tasks use intentionally or involuntary established trust relations to estimate the probability of achieving the expected results or the level of confidentiality. As in societies that evolved from real world relationship (e.g. school, office, sport activity, etc.) also in...

To examine factors that promote a knowledge seeker’s trust in a knowledge source, we analyzed survey data from three companies in different industries and countries. We found that the biggest predictors of benevolenceand competence-based trust were more malleable relational features such as shared language (a new construct) and shared vision, with little or no effect from more stable and visibl...