Trust

Trust within an Organization Christine Trinh University of Phoenix Management 521 Chris Foster January 04, 2010 Trust within an Organization Trust relationship among the team members is extremely vital to an organizations success. “Trust is confidence, the absence of suspicion, confirmed by a track record and our ability to correct that track record” (). Therefore, if the organizations put trust in their employees, it will promote pride and commitment from the employees. As such, if a team interacts with honesty, openness and respect with each other, they build up in each other confident and secure each other with trust. The team members will have more pride and commitment toward the organization and to themselves. Trust is a two- way relationship, “one trust, and the other trusted.”() The team members with a high level of trust are more willing to rely upon each other and are more committed to the projects. One of the keys for the team to earn trust among each other is to have an open line of communication. When team members are honest with each other, the results will likely be in a win/win solution, even though, from the beginning of the situation they didn’t agree with each other on a certain issues. If the team members have win/win strategies to a solution of the problem, they will have a positive outcome such as every team members are accountable for their actions. The presence of trust is vital to the conduct of the team because it is trust that holds the team together. Therefore, each team members need to prove themselves that they are capable of fulfilling their assigned responsibilities to them. If there are no trusting relationship is among the team members, the management and the team members will spend a great deal of time and energy on checking team’s member work. There are ways to lose trust when working in the team environment. One way to lose team’s trust is the team members act and speak inconsistency. “Nothing confuses people faster than inconsistency” (). For the team to trust each other each team members should be concise and consistent with their work and directions. Another negative way to lose trust in a team is when any team member seeks individual profits rather than the team’s benefit. “One who is out only for him/herself, especially in a team environment, quickly loses the respect and trust of others.”() Thirdly, trust is lost in a team environment when information is withheld. “When the communication channels shut down, rumors start and misinformation is believed to be real”. () In this case, if the true information is never presented then the trust within the team will disintegrate. The fourth aspects that can cause lost trust in the team are telling half truth. “Untruthfulness is a quick way to break a bond of trust” (). Last, when the teammates are closed-minded, this cuts off the communication between the team’s members as a results loss of trust. “An unwillingness to consider other ideas and points of view.”() In conclusion, there are certain steps that the team can take to keep trust in the team. From the beginning of the team formation, the team should identify the strengths and the weaknesses of each team members. This process will help the team to select the team members have the skills to complete tasks according to their skills. The next step is the team should converse and understand each other goals, they want to achieve for the group. This builds the team commitment with the team members. Finally, the team should have an agreement of how they the work should be distributed among themselves. References http://www.learningcenter.net http://www.trustedadvisor.com