Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Explicit Knowledge, Organizational Culture, Visible Minority

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Sarah Ross

Document Summary

Trust the willingness to be vulnerable to an authority because of positive expectations about the authority"s actions and intentions. Authority- were usually talking about trust justice and ethics between employee and manager. Vulnerable: trust only exists when there is dependence and vulnerability: trust can be understood in terms of, disposition-based trust, cognition-based trust, ability, benevolence integrity, affect-based trust, disposition-based trust. Disposition-based trust: trust rooted in one"s own personality. Trust based on the person who is doing the trusting. Something within the employee that makes them trusting of others or not. It is rooted in trust propensity: trust propensity a general expectation that the words, promises, and statements of individuals can be replied upon. As an employee do you believe that you can trust other individuals: trust propensity is most evident with strangers. Only way you can be trusting when you"ve first met a stranger is if you have a tendency to trust others.