The critical role of cooperation and trusting relationships is accounted much of in today' s organizational environment. Although the call for developing and maintaining these relationship has been strong, there has been little research adressing a co...
The critical role of cooperation and trusting relationships is accounted much of in today' s organizational environment. Although the call for developing and maintaining these relationship has been strong, there has been little research adressing a core element, "trust" in there relationships. If any, each literature has approached the problem with its own lens and filters, so it is necessary to integrate different perspectives the key role that trust plays in critical social processes such as cooperation, performance , etc.
The purpose of this review article is to investigate the various theories, and to suggest the themes for the future research about the trust in the organization. The major issues concerned with this study are as follows : First, how to define the trust including various disciplinary view of it. Second, the issue is to identify the basis of trust, forms of trust and development of the measure. Finally, the issue is to discuss the antecedents and outcomes of the trust in the organization.