What Is Trust In The Workplace

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Building relationships and trust in the workplace is crucial to producing a happy, healthy and ethical work environment. Trust encourages teamwork, commitment and support, from colleagues, while increasing credibility of the leader. People are more inclined to follow their leader if the leader proves they are trustworthy (Beslin & Reddin, 2004). When there is trust in the workplace, it creates a more enjoyable environment and permits more creativity, innovation, and success.
Building relationships and trust with students and colleagues are similar in many ways. Students want to feel they can trust their teacher. Trust will create a stronger unification of the classroom and allow students to feel comfortable and work hard towards success. The same holds true for the leader and their coworkers. Employees will work harder when they feel their leader/boss is trustworthy. Trust encourages students as well as colleagues to listen to what the leader has to say and reflect and assess what they have just heard and learned. This can increase feedback from both the students and collaborators and help the leader and teacher be more successful.
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Communication is different when speaking with colleague's verses students. The level of the relationship one has with colleagues is very unlike the connection with students. The teacher, must remain more authoritative in the student relationship, while a leader, with their colleagues can sometimes come to a more equal playing field when collaborating. Student/teacher relationships are most often, the teacher giving information and the students receiving the information, then the students being assessed on what they have learned. Leader/colleague relationships require more teamwork and communication from both sides as well as forms of assessment of both