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Implicating trust in the innovation process †
Author(s) -
Clegg Chris,
Unsworth Kerrie,
Epitropaki Olga,
Parker Giselle
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of occupational and organizational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 2044-8325
pISSN - 0963-1798
DOI - 10.1348/096317902321119574
Subject(s) - replicate , psychology , process (computing) , test (biology) , social psychology , knowledge management , computer science , mathematics , statistics , paleontology , biology , operating system
In this paper, we describe the development of two new measures of innovation trust, ‘trust that heard’ and ‘trust that benefit’. We report the findings from their use in a survey of design engineers in two large aerospace companies. We test a range of hypotheses covering different plausible roles for trust and confirm a ‘main effects’ model, whereby the variables predict the number of ideas suggested and the number of ideas implemented. In addition, we replicate earlier findings by Axtel et al . (2000), namely that personal and job variables predict idea suggestion, whereas organizational variables predict implementation.