Social conventions and organizational incentives can make people trustworthy

Evidence

Here I focus on the use of the second and third devices—constraint by larger social conventions and constraint by constructed organizational incentives—as they can be made to support trust between persons by making them trustworthy. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 235

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lays out Hardin’s three devices for achieving trustworthiness: ongoing relations, larger social conventions, and constructed organizational incentives.
• XREF: connects to: Voluntary acts of personal trust give the trusted party an incentive to be trustworthy — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 1203; Professionals carry cultural social-worth judgments into service unless organization blocks them. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 633; Conventions, not instincts or rationality, best explain much human behavior — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 186