Yönetim ve Ekonomi (Jan 2008)
Örgütsel Güvenin Örgütsel Bağlılık Üzerine Etkisi: Tekstil Sektörü Çalışanlarına Yönelik Bir Araştırma(The Impact of Organizational Trust on Organizational Commitment: A Study of Employees in the Textile Industry)
Abstract
The key objective of this research is to demonstrate the impact of organizational trust on organizational commitment. Accordingly, a research was conducted in the firm A, a textile industry enterprise in Istanbul. In the research, organizational trust has been examined in terms of the trust toward organization and manager; organizational commitment was has been examined in terms of affective commitment, continuity commitment and normative commitment. Within this framework, the effect of organizational trust on organizational commitment is established, exposing the relationship between the dimensions of organizational trust and the dimensions of organizational commitment. The findings reveal that the trust toward organization and manager have a positive effect on emotional commitment and continuity commitment and there exists a positive and moderately meaningful relationship between them; whereas there is no significant relationship between the trust --toward organization and manager-- and the normative commitment.