The purpose of this article is to identify the dynamics of trust among young female engineers who work overtime. Trust is examined as a protective factor against stress and
a prerequisite for the formation of a company’s social capital. The authors conducted a study at innovative and conventional enterprises within a large machine-building holding company. Over a two-year period of overtime work by the young female engineers at the innovative enterprise, the authors studied the specifics of objects of trust in the form of corporate values, the holding company as a whole, and its CEO. In addition, the authors also analyzed the specifics of the aforementioned objects of trust in the context of a lack of workload at the conventional enterprise. For the first time, the article identifies a fundamental phenomenon in the dynamics of values associated with the work experience of the young female engineers. It manifests itself in a decline in trust in corporate values and the company as a whole. However, the level of trust in the CEO increased, regardless of the nature of the difficulties faced by the young female engineers. The article also examines the risk of losing the most innovation-oriented young female engineers from the innovative enterprise and the growing opportunities to increase the innovation orientation of the young female engineers in the conventional enterprise.
