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Trust plays a central role in organizational life. It facilitates exchanges among individuals, enhances cooperation and coordination, and contributes to more effective relationships. This volume brings together a cross-disciplinary group of contributors to present some of the latest, most exciting conceptual perspectives in the field and to demonstrate a variety of new methodological approaches to the study of trust. It includes discussions on: the psychological and social antecedents of trust; the effects of social and organizational structures on trust; and the broad effects of trust on organizational functioning.
Understanding the Interaction between Procedural and Distributive Justice: The Role of Trust
Understanding the Interaction between Procedural and Distributive Justice: The Role of Trust
The purpose of this chapter is to discuss how recent developments in the justice literature provide a basis for understanding the role of trust in ongoing social relationships. To facilitate our analysis, a brief historical overview of theory and research on organizational justice is in order. The justice literature has witnessed three major waves over the past 35 years. The first wave centered on distributive justice, in which fairness was defined in terms of the outcomes of a resource allocation decision. Outcome-oriented theorists identified a variety of criteria that could be used to define fairness (e.g., see Deutsch's [1985] discussion of ...
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