Does feeling trusted at work increase psychological empowerment?

Feeling trusted at work has positive consequences for both the employee and the organization. One reason for this relationship is that employees who feel trusted reciprocate by being more helpful and productive at work. We were interested in whether feeling trusted also provided employees with greater motivation (i.e., psychological empowerment). We found that both trust in supervisor and psychological empowerment explained the relation between felt trust and job satisfaction, well-being, work engagement, and intention to leave the organization. Our results suggest that in addition to invoking a sense of reciprocity, feeling trusted at work also increases employees' work motivation