A Hierarchical Comparison on Influence Paths from Cognitive & Emotional Trust to Proactive Behavior Between China and Japan

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10.2991/icsshe-15.2015.155How to use a DOI?

Keywords

proactive behavior; cognitive & emotioal trust; prospects of performance & growth; warmth & happiness; influence path

Abstract

Little research examined how and why cognitive and emotional trust in supervisor influence employees’ proactive behavior (PB). The following findings were obtained by applying a hierarchical cross-national comparison framework on influence path to Chinese and Japanese samples: 1) the confirmatory cross-national comparisons on higher-order level pathways confirmed that in both China and Japan, the influence of cognitive trust on PB is mediated by prospects of performance and growth, and the influence of emotional trust on PB is mediated by warmth and happiness; 2) the exploratory cross-national comparison on lower-order level pathways revealed that the detailed structures of the two pathways were not much different between China and Japan, except in the depending willingness dimension of emotional trust; 3) finally, by comparing the findings of 1) and 2), we attempted to distinguish the inevitable parts and cultural peculiar parts within the two pathway.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Pei Liu
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