| Type of Document |
Master's Thesis |
| Author |
Whitmore, Corrie Baird
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| Author's Email Address |
corriew@vt.edu |
| URN |
etd-05102007-134424 |
| Title |
Development of trust in leadership: Exploring a cognitive process model. |
| Degree |
Master of Science |
| Department |
Psychology |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Foti, Roseanne J. |
Committee Chair |
| Donovan, John J. |
Committee Member |
| Hauenstein, Neil M. A. |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
- transformational leadership
- leader integrity
- trust
- leadership
- cognitive process model
- organizational justice
- leader prototypicality
- cognitive trust
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| Date of Defense |
2007-02-23 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
This thesis explored the cognitive, character-inference process that Dirks & Skarlicki (2004) assert contributes to trust development. Self-reported transformational leadership, leader integrity, organizational justice, and leader prototypicality correlated positively with cognitive trust in this sample of 81 student employees (63% female, mean age 20.5) of a large southeastern university. Leader prototypicality, a cognitive evaluation process, partially mediated the relationship between leader integrity and trust. This study’s prime contribution was the longitudinal, empirical test of a model of trust development in interdependent leader-follower dyads. Future research may explore other antecedents of trust, assess how the cognitive process of trust development occurs, or investigate the relationship-based social exchange mechanism Dirks and Skarlicki (2004) suggest contributes to the development of affective trust.
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