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Trust your teammates or bosses?: differential effects of trust on transactive memory, job satisfaction, and performance

  • Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine, in two studies, whether trust in teammates and trust in management influenced transactive memory and how strongly transactive memory, in turn, influenced perceived team performance and job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected via questionnaires from two samples of employees (n1=383 and n2=40). Regression and mediational analyses were employed to test the hypotheses. Findings – Trust in teammates predicted transactive memory and transactive memory, in turn, predicted perceived team performance and job satisfaction. Trust in management did not predict transactive memory, but it did predict job satisfaction. Research limitations/implications – Data are cross-sectional and cannot establish cause-effect-relationships. Furthermore, objective performance measures could not be obtained due to the nature of the studies. Thus, future studies need to use longitudinal or experimental designs and objective performance measures. Practical implications –Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine, in two studies, whether trust in teammates and trust in management influenced transactive memory and how strongly transactive memory, in turn, influenced perceived team performance and job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected via questionnaires from two samples of employees (n1=383 and n2=40). Regression and mediational analyses were employed to test the hypotheses. Findings – Trust in teammates predicted transactive memory and transactive memory, in turn, predicted perceived team performance and job satisfaction. Trust in management did not predict transactive memory, but it did predict job satisfaction. Research limitations/implications – Data are cross-sectional and cannot establish cause-effect-relationships. Furthermore, objective performance measures could not be obtained due to the nature of the studies. Thus, future studies need to use longitudinal or experimental designs and objective performance measures. Practical implications – Intangible factors such as trust can strengthen knowledge sharing and transactive memory systems. This, in turn, can positively impact job satisfaction and team performance. Managers and team leaders should pay more attention to building a climate of trust and participation, both within teams and between team members and supervisors/management. Originality/value – Results of two studies show the differential effects of trust in teammates versus trust in management. For finishing a knowledge-intensive task in a team, trust in teammates is more important than trust in management because trust influences transactive memory, which, in turn, leads to positive performance outcomes. However, for other organizational outcomes such as job satisfaction, trust in management can be as important as well.show moreshow less
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Author: Rommel Robertson, Prof. Dr. Christine Gockel, Elisabeth Brauner
Parent Title (English):Employee Relations
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2014/06/16
Year of first Publication:2013
Publishing Institution:SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences
Release Date:2014/06/16
Tag:Job satisfaction; Knowledge management; Team performance; Transactive memory
Volume:35
Issue:2
First Page:222
Last Page:242
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Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263159875_Trust_your_teammates_or_bosses_Differential_effects_of_trust_on_transactive_memory_job_satisfaction_and_performance
Link author profile:https://www.srh-berlin.de/hochschule/hochschulteam/gockel-christine/
Peer-reviewed:Keine Angabe - No details
JEL-Classification:J Labor and Demographic Economics
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung
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