Trust within Brazilian new economy organizations: an empirical investigation of gender effects benchmarked on Brazilian old economy organizations
Título del documento: Trust within Brazilian new economy organizations: an empirical investigation of gender effects benchmarked on Brazilian old economy organizations
Revista: BAR - Brazilian Administration Review
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Número de sistema: 000552833
ISSN: 1807-7692
Autores: 1
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Instituciones: 1Fundacao Dom Cabral, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais. Brasil
2State University of New York, Nueva York. Estados Unidos de América
3Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburgo. Alemania
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Periodo: Jul-Sep
Volumen: 6
Número: 3
Paginación: 230-246
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Resumen en inglés It has been suggested that one of the negative aspects of the New Economy has been growing organizational survival-risk both at the firm and the sector levels. This precarious positioning of the firm has profoundly changed the work environment resulting in the dissolution of job-definition-boundaries, thereby raising the intensity of work and finally affecting the level and nature of trust in the workplace. This is the starting point for our study. Using a questionnaire developed by Gillespie, we investigated gender profiles concerning trust in Supervisors, Peers, and Team in the New and the Old Economies for Brazilian managers. The results show that, for the New Economy, Brazilian women are more willing to give trust to Supervisors whereas Brazilian men expressed higher levels of trust when dealing with Team members. The Peer results are mixed. For the Old Economy, men uniformly express higher levels of trust compared to women over all three reference groups. Finally, for gender matched comparisons, those working in the Brazilian Old Economy firms express higher levels of trust compared to their counterparts in the New Economy independent of gender or time worked. We conclude by discussing the control implications of the above results.
Disciplinas: Economía
Palabras clave: Condiciones económicas
Keyword: Organizational trust,
Gender,
New economy,
Economic conditions
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