The trade-off between mercy and justice is a classic moral dilemma, particularly for organizational leaders and managers. In 3 complementary studies, we investigated how resolving the "punishment dilemma" influences interpersonal trust. Study 1 used controlled scenarios to show that uninvolved observers trusted leaders who administered large or medium punishment more than leaders who administer...

The objective of this paper is to test the influence of individual factors on employee participation in decision making (PDM) among Malaysian middle and top level managers in the private sector. The individual factors involved are trust, demographic similarities and idiocentrism-allocentrism. Leader-member exchange (LMX) is included as a moderating variable for the individual factor – PDM relat...

Continued use of strategic information systems is not always a given. This study proposes that users’ trust in the system may influence their satisfaction and continuance intention. While trust has been found to have strategic implications for understanding consumers’ technology usage, relatively little research has examined how trust’s influence operates over time. To gain insight into trust’s...

Software development projects are increasingly geographical distributed with offshoring. Co-sourcing is a highly integrative and cohesive approach, seen successful, to software development offshoring. However, research of how dynamic aspects of trust are shaped in co-sourcing activities is limited. We present a case study of how the co-sourcing relationship between a certified CMMI-level 5 Dani...

OBJECTIVE To examine the work of commissioning care for people with long-term conditions and the factors inhibiting or facilitating commissioners making service change. DESIGN Multisite mixed methods case study research, combining qualitative analysis of interviews, documents and observation of meetings. PARTICIPANTS Primary care trust managers and clinicians, general practice-based commiss...

Control-trust dynamics are fundamental to organizational life, but managers struggle balance them because these draw on opposing mechanisms. Past research has mainly assumed that substitution and complementarity constitute key control-trust dynamics, which limited scholars' understanding of why difficult how deal with over time. We explore managers' responses paradoxical dynamics. conducted a l...

Background: Government agencies need to improve the ethical behavior of managers and employees in order for their mission to be effective. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of managerschr('39') moral behavior in the level of social invalidity of employees, considering the mediating role of organizational citizenship behavior in government organizations. Method: The research met...

as an applied research, this study has used structural equations to examine the relationship between networkability, organizational learning and open innovation in order to assess the significance of relationships between variables in smes in the province of tehran. the statistical community of this study is the managers of smes in the province of tehran, but because of the vast geographical ar...