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OB CH 7
Term | Definition |
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Reputation | The prominence of an organization's brand in the minds of the public and the perceived quality of its goods and services. |
Trust | The willingness to be vulnerable to an authority based on positive expectations about the authority's actions and intentions. |
justice | The perceived fairness of an authority's decision making. |
ethics | The degree to which the behaviors of an authority are in accordance with generally accepted moral norms. |
disposition-based trust | Trust that is rooted in one's own personality, as opposed to a careful assessment of the trustee's trustworthiness. |
cognition-based trust | Trust that is rooted in a rational assessment of the authority's trustworthiness. |
affect-based trust | Trust that depends on feelings toward the authority that go beyond rational assessment. |
trust propensity | A general expectation that the words, promises, and statements of individuals can be relied upon. |
trustworthiness | Characteristics or attributes of a person that inspire trust, including competence, character, and benevolence. |
ability | Relatively stable capabilities of people for performing a particular range of related activities. |
benevolence | The belief that an authority wants to do good for an employee, apart from any selfish or profit-centered motives. |
integrity | The perception that an authority adheres to a set of acceptable values and principles. |
distributive justice | The perceived fairness of decision-making outcomes. |
procedural justice | The perceived fairness of decision-making processes. |
interpersonal justice | The perceived fairness of the interpersonal treatment received by employees from authorities. |
abusive supervision | The sustained display of hostile verbal and nonverbal behaviors on the part of supervisors, excluding physical contact. |
informational justice | The perceived fairness of the communications provided to employees from authorities. |
whistle-blowing | When employees expose illegal actions by their employer. |
four-component model | A model that argues that ethical behaviors result from the multistage sequence of moral awareness, moral judgment, moral intent, and ethical behavior. |
moral awareness | When an authority recognizes that a moral issue exists in a situation. |
moral intensity | The degree to which an issue has ethical urgency. |
moral attentiveness | The degree to which people chronically perceive and consider issues of morality during their experiences. |
moral judgement | When an authority can accurately identify the "right" course of action. |
cognitive moral development | As people age and mature, they move through several states of moral development, each more mature and sophisticated than the prior one. |
moral principles | Prescriptive guides for making moral judgments. |
moral intent | An authority's degree of commitment to the moral course of action. |
moral identity | The degree to which a person self-identifies as a moral person. |
ability to focus | The degree to which employees can devote their attention to work. |
economic exchange | Work relationships that resemble a contractual agreement by which employees fulfill job duties in exchange for financial compensation. |
social exchange | Work relationships that are characterized by mutual investment, with employees willing to engage in "extra mile" sorts of behaviors because they trust that their efforts will eventually be rewarded. |
corporate social exchange | A perspective that acknowledges that the responsibility of a business encompasses the economic, legal, ethical, and citizenship expectations of society. |