Authors: Damian Grabowski; Ma?gorzata Chrupa?a-Pniak; Monika Sulimowska-Formowicz
Number of theorists pay a lot attention to trust and its influence on interorganizational relation’s (IORs) outcomes (Blomqvist 2002: Blomqvist & Levy 2006: Sako 1998: Seppänen et al. 2007). Organizational trust is seen as relation’s critical success factor that contributes to shaping effective interaction both on organizational and individual level (Ford et al. 2011). Still there is a gap in research on interdisciplinary field on interrelations between: organizational and interpersonal trust and psychological mechanisms of motivation and work engagement and then IOR results. Our research contributes to filling this gap by joining organizational aspects with individual, psychological ones. The article presents results of empirical studies on trust in Polish companies involved in inter-organizational relationships (IORs). The aim of the research was twofold: 1). to verify relations of organizational trust with IOR’s results and 2). to analyze the relations between interpersonal trust, individuals’ autonomous motivation, work engagement in cooperative teams with organizational trust and IORs’ results. The paper is founded on questionnaire research conducted in 2014 among 210 Polish companies of diverse relational experience. Spearman correlation, mediation analyses with bootstrapping and structural equations modelling with RML were used. The research reveals statistically relevant interdependences between organizational trust and individuals’ interpersonal trust and IORs outcomes. Mediation analysis shows mediating role of organizational trust in relation between interpersonal trust and relation results. Interpersonal trust of both managers and team members correlates positively with their autonomous motivation and work engagement. SEM with RML analysis proved that interpersonal trust influences IOR outcomes through organizational trust and through psychological mechanisms of motivation and engagement.
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Publish Year: 2016
Conference: Poznan, Poland (2016)