Organizational Health of High Schools and Dimensions of Faculty Trust

Abstract

This research is an analysis of organizational health and faculty trust in high schools in a midwestern state. Seven dimensions of school health and four aspects of faculty trust—in students, colleagues, principal, and parents—were examined. In general, the better the organizational health of a school, the greater the degree of faculty trust. However, as predicted, each dimension of faculty trust had a different set of school health predictors. Moreover, trust in students and trust in parents were not separate aspects of faculty trust. They combined to form a single unitary concept of trust, which we labeled faculty trust in clients.