A Social Exchange Model of Subordinate's Trust in Supervisors

Author

Wei HUA, Singapore Management UniversityFollow

Publication Type

Working Paper

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

9-2004

Abstract

This study demonstrates how the subordinate’s defensiveness predicts perception of managerial behaviors, which in turn leads to trust in supervisors. From a social information processing perspective, defensiveness, the affective reaction to uncertainty and vulnerability, serves as the frame subordinates use to decode and evaluate managerial behaviors. Trust in supervisors is anchored in this perception. A two-group analysis in Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is used to test this model by a Chinese and a US sample

Discipline

Business Administration, Management, and Operations | Human Resources Management

Research Areas

Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources

Citation

HUA, Wei. A Social Exchange Model of Subordinate's Trust in Supervisors. (2004).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/2335

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