Abstract
This study investigates in the healthcare sector how occupation influences the relationship between organizational procedural justice and employees’ trust in the supervisor and in the organization. Drawing on the dual hierarchy model in professional bureaucracies, we adopt a multi-level approach and pay close attention to the influence of the occupational group and its immediate organizational context. Our results from five healthcare organizations reveal that the relationship between organizational procedural justice and trust in the organization is mediated by employees’ trust in the supervisor for both health professionals and support staff. On the occupational group level, occupation type predicts organizational procedural justice and trust in the organization, but not trust in the supervisor. Based on these findings, we insist that communication between occupation groups deserves more attention for building trust in professional bureaucracies.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 512-535 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Public Performance & Management Review |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 12 Oct 2022 |
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| Publication status | Published - 4 May 2023 |
Bibliographical note
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.Keywords
- Multilevel modelling
- professional bureaucracies
- trust
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Public Administration
- Strategy and Management