Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society

Volume 19, 2008

Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting

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.