TRUST: THE CONNECTING LINK BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS
TRUST: THE CONNECTING LINK BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS
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DOI：
10.5465/amr.1995.9507312923
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发表时间：
1995-04
影响因子：
16.4
通讯作者：
L. Hosmer
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作者：
L. Hosmer
许多研究者提出，信任对于理解人际和群体行为、管理效率、经济交流以及社会或政治稳定至关重要，但大多数学者认为，这一概念从未得到精确定义。本文回顾了组织理论中各种方法的定义，考察了它们之间的差异，并提出信任是基于一种隐含的道德责任的基本假设。这种道德责任在许多组织理论中是一种反常现象，这使得精确的定义成了问题。信任也从哲学伦理学，并提出了一个综合的组织和哲学的定义，强调明确的道德责任感，并根据公认的道德原则的分析。这个新的定义有潜力联合收割机的研究，从两个领域的研究在重要领域的调查。
Numerous researchers have proposed that trust is essential for understanding interpersonal and group behavior, managerial effectiveness, economic exchange and social or political stability, yet according to a majority of these scholars, this concept has never been precisely defined. This article reviews definitions from various approaches within organizational theory, examines the consistencies and differences, and proposes that trust is based upon an underlying assumption of an implicit moral duty. This moral duty—an anomaly in much of organizational theory—has made a precise definition problematic. Trust also is examined from philosophical ethics, and a synthesis of the organizational and philosophical definitions that emphasizes an explicit sense of moral duty and is based upon accepted ethical principles of analysis is proposed. This new definition has the potential to combine research from the two fields of study in important areas of inquiry.