The relationship between inter-organizational trust and employee engagement and performance

Helena Bulińska-Stangrecka , Y. Anuradha Iddagoda

Abstract

There is a growing interest on the concept of employee engagement in the corporate world as well as in the academic world. Employee engagement is all about employees, cognitive, emotional and behavioral involvement of his or her job as well as the organization. On the basis of the review of the existing literature this paper analyze the consequences of employees engagement for job performance. This paper aims at enhancing understanding of the consequences of employee engagement on job performance by examining the mediating role of trust. It presents a conceptual framework of interorganizational trust, employee engagement and employee job performance.