How Trust in One’s Employer Moderates the Relationship Between HRM and Engagement Related Performance

Trust can be seen as important element for the effectiveness of organizational engagement. In particular, in order to be engaged to their work, employees’ trust in their employer organization plays a crucial role. This study adopts Dirks and Ferrin’s somewhat neglected model of trust as a moderator on the link between human resource management (HRM) and performance. Using a Finnish data-set from a forestry company, we find that trust in the...