The critical role of the leader or supervisor in building the employee trust

Abstract

Authentic leadership, transparent organizational communication, and employee arrangements are linked to employee trust. Each and every employee has different strengths, and knowing you can count on your team members to fill in your missing gaps helps reduce stress and improve productivity. Trust forms the basis for effective communication, employee retention, and employee motivation and contribution of flexible energy, the extra effort that people voluntarily invest in work. When trust exists in an organization or in a relationship, nearly everything else is easier and more comfortable to achieve. Modern-day employees have a lot of expectations when it comes to their companies. Highly skilled top performers can afford to be selective about the type of company they work for and it has been increasingly shown that employees want to be part of honest, authentic and transparent organisations. Transparency in business is something that has been discussed a lot recently, with a recent Forbes poll revealing that majority of employees think their organizations were held back by a lack of transparency. But it is one thing to be aware of the value of work place transparency and quite another to conscientiously build it into your corporate culture.