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Abstract Based on previous literatures on trust between leaders and subordinates, we generalized the researches from three theoretical perspectives, namely, similarity derived from social identity theory, social cognition theory and social exchange theory. The former two perspectives focused on the trustor as the sponsor of trust relationship, while social exchange theory keeps a watchful eye on the interaction of both trustors and trustees, namely: leaders and subordinates. To be concrete, social identity theory laid the foundation of trust, thus similarity is the basis for building trust between leaders and subordinates, including similarities in social category and similarities in information aspects. From the perspective of social cognition theory, trustors make their decisions of whether they should trust others by judging the information about the characteristics of trustees, the relationship between them and the contexts. Lastly, when we mention trust from the perspective of social exchange theory, we focus on the whole set-up process of exchange relationship, in other words, the process of the interaction between leaders and subordinates and how they build trust along the process. In conclusion, we show the whole picture of researches on trust between leaders and subordinates with the lens of three perspectives. Moreover, by illustrating the limitations of current literatures, we lead a direction for further researches.
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Received: 10 May 2016
Published: 15 April 2017
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Corresponding Authors:
CHEN Lizhe
E-mail: clizhe1990@163.com
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2017, Vol. 37 
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