Reciprocity of trust in the supervisor-subordinate relationship: The mediating role of autonomy and the sense of power

Tuija Seppälä; Jukka Lipponen; Anna Maija Pirttila-Backman; Jari Lipsanen

doi:10.1080/1359432X.2010.507353

Reciprocity of trust in the supervisor-subordinate relationship: The mediating role of autonomy and the sense of power

Tuija Seppälä^*, Jukka Lipponen, Anna Maija Pirttila-Backman, Jari Lipsanen

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Department of Industrial Engineering and Management

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This article develops and tests a model of reciprocal trust between supervisor and subordinate. Drawing from literature on trust and control and on the approach/inhibition theory of power, the authors present a model in which supervisor trust is suggested to enhance subordinate reciprocal trust through increased work-related autonomy and a heightened sense of power. The mediator analysis using the two-level full structural model confirmed that the relationship between supervisor trust and subordinate trust was partially mediated by the suggested chain of variables. The article responds to a call for empirical studies on reciprocal trust and offers a complementary mechanism for trust building beside characteristics and relationship-based approaches.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	755-778
Number of pages	24
Journal	European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
Volume	20
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2010.507353
Publication status	Published - Dec 2011
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

Autonomy
Reciprocal trust
Sense of power
Supervisor-subordinate relationship

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Reciprocity of trust in the supervisor-subordinate relationship : The mediating role of autonomy and the sense of power. / Seppälä, Tuija; Lipponen, Jukka; Pirttila-Backman, Anna Maija; Lipsanen, Jari.

In: European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Vol. 20, No. 6, 12.2011, p. 755-778.

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