Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Note on editors
- Note on contributors
- Foreword
- Editors' acknowledgements
- Part I The conceptual challenge of researching trust across different ‘cultural spheres’
- Part II Trust across different ‘cultural spheres’: inter-organizational studies
- Part III Trust across different ‘cultural spheres’: intra-organizational studies
- 11 The role of trust in international cooperation in crisis areas: a comparison of German and US-American NGO partnership strategies
- 12 Antecedents of supervisor trust in collectivist cultures: evidence from Turkey and China
- 13 Trust in turbulent times: organizational change and the consequences for intra-organizational trust
- 14 The implications of language boundaries on the development of trust in international management teams
- 15 The dynamics of trust across cultures in family firms
- Part IV Conclusions and ways forward
- Index
- References
12 - Antecedents of supervisor trust in collectivist cultures: evidence from Turkey and China
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Note on editors
- Note on contributors
- Foreword
- Editors' acknowledgements
- Part I The conceptual challenge of researching trust across different ‘cultural spheres’
- Part II Trust across different ‘cultural spheres’: inter-organizational studies
- Part III Trust across different ‘cultural spheres’: intra-organizational studies
- 11 The role of trust in international cooperation in crisis areas: a comparison of German and US-American NGO partnership strategies
- 12 Antecedents of supervisor trust in collectivist cultures: evidence from Turkey and China
- 13 Trust in turbulent times: organizational change and the consequences for intra-organizational trust
- 14 The implications of language boundaries on the development of trust in international management teams
- 15 The dynamics of trust across cultures in family firms
- Part IV Conclusions and ways forward
- Index
- References
Summary
Summary
The premise of much research on dyadic trust building within organizations has been framed around the relationship as it emerges in the work context. Such models, including the seminal Mayer et al. (1995) model of dyadic trust, have been applied to contexts outside North America without a careful understanding of the distribution of social practices and everyday situations in such contexts. This chapter examines culture-specific workways as a starting point for understanding subordinates' trust in their supervisors in collectivist cultures. Workways refer to the pattern of workplace beliefs, mental models and practices about what is true, good and efficient within the domain of work. Drawing from interviews with sixty organizational respondents from two countries, Turkey and China, we propose that the multiplexity of work relations needs to be taken into account as both personal and professional life domains are important for understanding supervisor–subordinate trust in collectivist cultures.
Introduction
Dyadic trust, and in particular, trust between supervisors and their subordinates has been well documented and studied (e.g. Lewicki et al., 2006). However, this body of work is limited largely to the North American context (e.g. from the meta-analysis of Dirks and Ferrin (2002)).
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