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The belonging model of trust
Author(s) -
Knapp Joshua R.,
Sprinkle Therese A.,
Urick Michael J.,
DelaneyKlinger Kelly A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
nonprofit management and leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.844
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1542-7854
pISSN - 1048-6682
DOI - 10.1002/nml.21370
Subject(s) - insider , distributive justice , organizational justice , procedural justice , perception , interpersonal communication , social psychology , identification (biology) , organizational identification , economic justice , psychology , public relations , business , organizational commitment , political science , law , botany , neuroscience , biology
Although we know that high‐quality employee–organization relationships are beneficial, these relationships are complex and not fully understood, especially among employees of nonprofit organizations. In particular, we know little about how these employees perceive trust, which may overlook an important contributor to effective management. We begin to address this issue by testing a new theoretical model that conceptualizes perceived insider status, psychological ownership, and organizational identification as foundations for the perception of justice and subsequent trust. Our results indicate that psychological ownership and perceived insider status relate to trust through procedural and interpersonal justice. These results contrast those typically found in for‐profit contexts in that organizational identification did not predict justice and that distributive and informational justice did not predict trust.