This study tested a model of survivor reactions to reorganization, which incorporated multiple predictors and consequences of procedural, interpersonal, and informational justice. The 3 justice types had different correlates: all 4 antecedents (employee input, victim support, implementation, and communication quality) predicted interpersonal fairness, implementation and communication quality we...

This study reports on New Zealand dairy farmers’ access to and use of information as mediated through conditions of risk and trust within the context of their interpersonal social networks. We located participants’ reports of their information use within their perceived environments of trust and risk, following Giddens’s [1990. The consequences of modernity. Polity Press, Stanford, CA] typology...

Trust plays a critical role in our everyday lives from interpersonal communication to buyer-seller exchanges. Yet the concept of trust within the unique context of computer-mediated exchange (CME) has received little attention. To offer a theoretical contribution, we define key terms and synthesize relevant literature identifying four sources and seven dimensions of trust. Combining these sourc...

he aim of the research was to determine difference in interpersonal trust and group affiliation children without parental care relation contact with relatives. The included a convenient sample 122 respondents both genders, who were taken "Children's SOS Village" Gračanica, "Village Peace" Turija "Home for Children Without Parental Care" Tuzla. In order verify objective, Group Affiliation Scaler...

The issue of leadership has been investigated from several perspectives; however, very less from ethical perspective. With the growing number of corporate scandals and unethical roles played by business leaders in several parts of the world, the need to examine leadership from ethical perspective cannot be over emphasized. The importance of leadership credibility has been discussed in the authe...

To provide social exchange on a global level, sharing-economy companies leverage interpersonal trust between their members on a scale unimaginable even a few years ago. A challenge to this mission is the presence of social biases among a large heterogeneous and independent population of users, a factor that hinders the growth of these services. We investigate whether and to what extent a sharin...

Previous work has suggested that low levels of trust in ethnically diverse societies may be one mechanism explaining the negative relationship between diversity and economic growth. Building on theories developed in social psychology, I argue that increased national identification in such societies may reduce the negative effects of ethnic diversity on interpersonal trust by extending trust acr...

We examine the contribution of human capital to health in 23 countries worldwide using the OECD Survey of Adult Skills, a unique large-scale international assessment of 16-65 year olds that contains information about self-reported health, schooling, cognitive skills and indicators of interpersonal trust, which represents the cognitive dimension of social capital. We identify cross-national diff...

BACKGROUND While some studies directly address the issue of changes in union formation in Russia and Eastern Europe, few have focused on attitudes and norms regarding marriage and cohabitation. In Russia cohabitation has risen sharply in the last decades, but recently its level has stabilized and even decreased slightly. OBJECTIVE We intend to highlight gender and educational differences in per...

This study examines two aspects of organizational trust, as identified in the relevant literature: cognition-based (rational) trust and affect-based (relational) trust. Using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), we explore and analyze the antecedents of organizational trust in the public sector at a hierarchical and multi-level ordering structure, and empirically test the effects of different ty...