When an agent’s motivation is sensitive to how his supervisor thinks about the agent’s competence, the supervisor has to take into account both informational and expressive contents of her message to the agent. This paper shows that the supervisor can credibly express her trust in the agent’s ability only by being unclear about what to do. Suggesting what to do, i.e., “directives,” could reveal...

Due to the impact of COVID-19, a large number employees organizations around world have been forced work remotely from home starting in 2020. As result, leaders and followers face new communication interaction challenges. If an enterprise is be successful wave economic development, it must embrace role employee followers. However, there currently no relevant research. Therefore, purpose this st...

This study examined how organizational control is related to employees' organizational trust. We specifically focus on how different forms of control (process, outcome, and normative) relate to employees' trust in their employing organizations and examine whether such trust in turn relates positively to employee job performance (task performance and organizational citizenship behavior). In addi...

This study investigates in the healthcare sector how occupation influences relationship between organizational procedural justice and employees’ trust supervisor organization. Drawing on dual hierarchy model professional bureaucracies, we adopt a multi-level approach pay close attention to influence of occupational group its immediate context. Our results from five organizations reveal that org...

The decision to trust a medical trainee with the critical responsibility to care for a patient is fundamental to clinical training. When carefully and deliberately made, such decisions can serve as significant stimuli for learning and also shape the assessment of trainees. Holding back entrustment decisions too much may hamper the trainee's development toward unsupervised practice. When careles...

Most robot platforms operate in one of two modes: full autonomy, usually in the lab; or lowlevel teleoperation, usually in the field. Full autonomy is currently realizable only in narrow domains of robotics—like mapping an environment. Tedious teleoperation/joystick control is typical in military applications, like complex manipulation and navigation with bomb-disposal robots. This thesis descr...