Abstract
Relational climates refer to shared perceptions of individuals regarding the practices that affect interpersonal relationships. We build theory to examine how relational climates provide a context for the development of team trust from individual beliefs of team members. In particular, we focus on how different relational climates can either buffer or enhance the negative effect of individual social cynicism on team trust. Cross-level interactions of relational climates (i.e., communal sharing climate and equality matching climate) at the team level (N = 270) with social cynicism at the individual level (N = 1886) support our hypotheses, indicating that communal sharing climate buffers the negative effect of social cynicism on team trust, whereas equality matching climate enhances this adverse effect.
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