Dynamics of Organizational Distrust: An Exploratory Study in Workplace Safety

Cihangir Gümüştaş*, Fatma Küskü

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Although there are numerous studies on how to establish a safety-climate within organizations, knowledge about how distrust, as a distinct factor, develops and can be best managed in the occupational safety context is limited. Instead of taking a normative perspective of how distrust is developed in Individualist-Western cultures, and using it as the center to understand distrust development in collectivist non-Western cultures, this paper takes an exploratory method, which allows participants to identify the content and variety of elements they think significant in distrust development. This study also aims to address how distrust might best be managed by identifying a set of practices. Data from occupational health and safety (OHS) specialists and OHS academicians working in Turkey were collected through open-ended questionnaire forms, and content analysis was performed. While the opposite ends of Ability, Benevolence, and Integrity, respectively Incompetence, Malevolence, and Deceit were found to be essential aspects of organizational (dis)trustworthiness, External factors appeared as a context-specific dimension of distrust. It is found that the absence of hygiene factors and good relations with employees has a noticeable influence on distrust formation. Drawing on this evidence and the data collected, distrust overcoming practices, which are more affective in nature and focus on better material conditions, are offered.

Orijinal dilİngilizce
Makale numarası105032
DergiSafety Science
Hacim134
DOI'lar
Yayın durumuYayınlandı - Şub 2021

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© 2020 Elsevier Ltd

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We would like to thank all our respondents for sharing their experiences and time with us. Some parts of this paper were presented at the 19th European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference, 2019, Lisbon, Portugal, ISSN 2466-7498, and ISBN 978-2-9602195-1-7 and Global Conference on Business and Economics, 2019, İstanbul, Turkey, ISBN 978-1-7321275-5-5. We wish to thank Mehmet Erçek, İdil V. Evcimen, Gürkan Emre Gürcanlı, Özlem Öktem Yıldırım, Cemil Ozan Soydemir, and the reviewers of the conferences for their insightful comments and suggestions. We are grateful to the reviewers and editors of Safety Science, whose valuable comments have done much to help us improve the article. We, however, accept sole responsibility for any remaining errors.

FinansörlerFinansör numarası
European Academy of ManagementISBN 978-1-7321275-5-5, ISBN 978-2-9602195-1-7, ISSN 2466-7498

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