Volume 19, 2008
Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting
Raminta Pučėtaitė, Anna-Maija Lämsä
Pages 55-64
Building Organizational Trust with Ethical Organizational Practices
Empirical Evidence from a Post-Socialist Context
The paper explores the possibility to develop organizational trust in companies operating in a post-socialist society where trust is rather low due to certain socio-historical processes. They determined a number of ethical problems which diminish trust both at the societal and the organizational levels. It is argued that trust can be advanced by organizational efforts, namely, ethical organizational practices. The interrelations among organizational trust, ethical problems and ethical organizational practices are empirically tested, the primary findings and directions for further research are discussed.