ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on integrative model of organizational trust to explicate how trust and employee theft might be related. The integrative model clarifies how trust differs from its antecedents and consequences, and allows for more sophisticated insights based on this precision. The effect of trust on risk-taking in relationships is also moderated by the perceived degree of risk in a given situation, where risk refers to the "likelihoods of gains or losses outside considerations that involve the relationship with the particular trustee". It is also possible that an employee's level of trust in the employer affects the risks they take in the relationship insofar as higher trust leads them to forego opportunities to steal. Furthermore, it distinguishes trust from risk-taking in a relationship and explicitly incorporates the role of situational risk in moderating the trust-risk-taking relationship. Accordingly, it provides a sound theoretical platform for empirical testing of posited relationships.
