Organizational Trust

Paper Summary:

This paper focuses on the area of trust in the organizational aspect, and specifically in a law enforcement organization. The paper looks at how one obtains and maintains trust in a law enforcement organization, as well as trust in some personal aspects. This paper also evaluates the universal definition of trust or the lack there of. Furthermore, the research discusses the different types and levels of trust that exists in everyday relationships and organizational relationships, as well as what the significance of these relationships is. The paper further discusses how the more trust an employee has in the organization, employer and co-workers, the better performance and dedication to work is.

Outline:
Chapter 1: Review of the Literature
Chapter 2: Review of Current Research
Conclusion and Recommendations

From the Paper:

"The accumulated findings of the working group's conferences and workshops informed the Foundations recent invitation for research proposals. The Foundation aims to fund focused, empirical investigations of trust in concrete social scenarios - such as doctor-patient relations, or the relationship between elected officials and their constituents - where trust, or the lack of it, has clear, measurable consequences. To qualify for funding, these investigations will have to provide an explicit, theoretical account of the function of trust, together with a plausible strategy for testing the theory empirically. Three full proposals were funded in November 1999, together with four smaller exploratory proposals looking at trust in public bureaucracies, trust in physician-patient relationships, the risks of trust, and the faith people place in third party information when evaluating a potential partner's trustworthiness. ("Examining the Role of Trust in Society," 2000, p. 328)"

Sample of Sources Used:

• Atkinson, S., & Butcher, D. (2003). Trust in the Context of Management Relationships: An Empirical Study. SAM Advanced Management Journal, 68(4), 24+.
• Barber B. 1983. The Logic and Limits of Trust. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press. 310 pp.
• Brewer MB. 1981. Ethnocentrism and its role in interpersonal trust. In Scientific Inquiry and the Social Sciences, ed. MB Brewer, BE Collins, pp. 345-59. New York: Jossey-Bass. 523 pp.
• Brewer MB. 1996. In-group favoritism: the subtle side of intergroup discrimination. In Codes of Conduct: Behavioral Research and Business Ethics, ed. DM Messick, A Tenbrunsel, pp. 160-71. New York: Russell Sage Found. 407 pp.
• Burt R, Knez M. 1995. Kinds of third-party effects on trust, J. Ration. Soc. 7:255-92

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