What are you hiding? Employee attributions for pay secrecy policies

This study examines the effect of three dimensions of pay secrecy policies (i.e., distributive nondisclosure, communication restriction, procedural nondisclosure) on employee trust in management. Drawing from HR attributions research, we propose that these pay secrecy policies are positively related to malevolent attributions and negatively related to benevolent attributions. We tested our model with 317 employees and found that attributions...