Can we trust without any reliable truth information? Most trust architectures work in a similar way: a trustor makes some observations, rates the trustee, and makes recommendations to his friends. When he faces a new case, he checks his trust table and uses recommendations given by trustworthy friends to decide whether he will undertake a given action. But what if the observations that are used...

Using General Social Survey data from 1972 to 2008, we found that Americans were on average happier in the years with less national income inequality than in the years with more national income inequality. We further demonstrated that this inverse relation between income inequality and happiness was explained by perceived fairness and general trust. That is, Americans trusted other people less ...

the key objective of this research is to test the effect of trust based on cognition and affection aspect, regard to 3 main issues as psychological differences, sale manager's marketing experience and sale manager's education level on perceived relationship effectiveness, dysfunctional conflict and functional conflict. the methodology based on descriptive researches and main tool for ...

Offshore outsourcing a n d teams working across national borders have become a fact. Management experiences difficulties when applying traditional management approaches, because of the increased complexity of global organizations and global partnerships and their dependency on people with different underlying norms, values and beliefs. Cultural sensitivity is a core issue. Trust, an issue embed...

Trusting other people is essential for modern societies, in which the sheer complexity of interpersonal relationships renders more traditional control-based strategies of interpersonal cooperation increasingly inefficient (Luhmann, 1979). There is no agreed-upon standard definition of the concept of trust, but the key idea is that “trusting a person means believing that when offered the chance,...

public interests justify the existence of public administration and public administrator must obligate it in any policies and decisions. reduction of public trust and organizational trust in recent years and necessity of power distribution and empowerment in democratization trend, intensify the emergence of servant leadership. denhart´s idea of new public service in recent decades, increases th...

Technological advances offer the promise of robotic systems that work with people to form human-robot teams that are more capable than their individual members. Unfortunately, the increasing capability of such autonomous systems has often failed to increase the capability of the human-robot team. Studies have identified many causes underlying these failures, but one critical aspect of a success...

Trust is of great interest in organizational research and the social sciences. It is argued here that any theory of trust ought to treat a set of observed empirical regularities as constraints. A constraint on a theory is either an assumption made in constructing the theory (e.g., we assume people have a tendency to be fair in their dealings with others) or an explanandum (e.g., we must explain...

the main purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between organizational trust and organizational justice components and their role on job involvement. the method of this research is descriptive and co-relational, and the statistical sample contains 350 employees and managers of education in meybod and ardakan (yazd). data collected by moorman's (1999) organizational justice qu...