Research On Relationship Among Human Resources Management Practices,Trust And Organizational Abilities

Trust,an eternal and everlasting topic,is a complexed and significant social and psychological phenomenon.The importance of trust has struck root in the hearts of the people at all times and in all over the world.There are rich research achievements on trust.At national level,trust is a vital social capital for national development which can promote economic prosperity and social stability.At organizational level,trust is a core element for economic exchange which strengthens the coordination of economic activities.Moreover,trust plays a role of lubrication for communication and cooperation between organizations and employees,and trust can help to reduce transaction costs.In addition,trust can affect individual and organizational performance.At individual level,gaining trust means acquiring important social capital and economic capital.Trust is vitally important,but the question is that trust is facing great challenges in the worldwide.In this case,it is essential and practically significant to conduct research on trust.Trust is not innate and can be cultivated.From the perspective of the organization,employees are the most valuable resource.In accordance with “Human Resource-based View”,human resource is the soft power of an organization.Strategic human resource with its four characteristics of value,scarcity,non-imitativeness,and non-substitutability,is the source for an organization to obtain competitive advantage.As for an individual,it is only those employees who have high credibility and trust tendency that can improve individual and organizational performance,because trust can effectively reduce the monitoring cost,promote the collaboration between the members of the organization,and support the innovation,which in turn improves the competitive edge of the organization which cannot be imitated by other organizations.According to “Individual Character Theory” and “Social Exchange Theory”,if an organization trust its employees and gives them due remuneration,in return,employees tend to trust the organization and work hard to achieve organizational goals.Therefore,human resource management practice is an antecedent variable oftrust.Strategic human resource management practices influence trust from two ways,that is,trust tendency and personal qualities such as ability,integrity and kindness,through six aspects such as selection,extensive training,internal promotion,employment security,incentive remuneration,and employee involvement.Organization ability is a result variable of trust.Trust can improve organization ability from three aspects of value,psychological security,and knowledge sharing.Organizational ability includes environmental perception ability,learning and absorbing ability,organizational coordination ability,organization flow re-creation ability,organizational innovation ability,and economic performance.This paper,based on Chinese context,from the perspective of employee trust and organizational trust,first discusses the influences of strategic human resource management practices on the trust,and then investigates the influences of trust on organizational ability through values,psychological security,and knowledge sharing.This paper conducts research by means of literature review method and empirical method,among which literature review and small sample interviewing method are used for studying the relationship between human resource management practice and trust,and literature review and large sample questionnaire method are used for studying the relationship between trust and organizational ability.The paper studies the relationship between human resource management practice,trust,and organizational ability.The research finds that the strategic human resource management practices are the antecedent variables of trust,trust is the the antecedent variables of organizational ability,values,psychological sense of security and knowledge sharing are the partial metavariables.The research,based on the result,suggests that organizations should strengthen the relationship between strategic human resource management practices and trust as well as the relationship between trust and organizational ability.The research aims to raise the trust awareness of both managers and employees,strengthen trust management,and improve organizational ability of an enterprise.