The Relationship Between Loyalty And Good Performance And Disloyalty And Poor Performance

In today’s society it is crucial to establish a basis of trust within an organization in order to remain competitive and successful. It is the foundation upon which all relationships are built. If employees feel you don’t trust them to do their jobs correctly, they will be unwilling to do much without your approval. But on the other hand, when they feel trusted, and that you believe they will do the right things, they will naturally want to do things well and be deserving of your trust.

In this book, trust is defined as “one’s willingness to be vulnerable to another based on the confidence that the other is benevolent, honest, open, reliable, and competent.” (page xiii) The author recognizes that trust is complex and dynamic. She views trust as the “lubricant” that greases the machinery of the organization. Trust is particularly important where parties are interdependent, or the “interests of one party cannot be achieve without reliance upon another.” In schools “teachers and principals are

Trust is the output of your behaviours and actions of you as a leader and it either builds or erodes over time. Ineffective leaders often don’t get this element of their personal accountability. Importantly, if you don’t build trust and mutual professional respect you cannot be an effective horizontal matrix leader. You must also assume good intent of your team and business partners rather than suspicion and derision so when something does happen (and it will) you are showing empathy in your own relationships by seeking to understand instead of becoming emotional and seeking to assign blame. This is something each of us need to make one of our personal management habits.

Trust is the driving force behind any good leader. Trust is essential when building positive working relationships. It is important for Soldiers to trust me. If they do not trust me, they will not approach me with their problems or come to me for help. I will always strive to build a trusting relationship with my Soldiers so they feel comfortable coming to me with issues. As a leader, it is my responsibility to take care of Soldiers, if they do not trust me I cannot succeed.

Leadership is not a solo act, it’s a team effort the authors explain (p. 223). To enable others to act the leader needs to create a climate of trust by facilitating relationships. To start the process one must, “be the first to let go of control,” Kouzes and Posner explain and it requires self-confidence (p. 227). Just like Bass and Avolio (1980)

Cottrill said that to manage people you need to be a leader and to be a leader requires being able to motivate other’s actions/behaviors towards a goal. To be effective as a leader your employees have to trust you. You accomplish this trust through being transparent and doing what you say you are going to do. (Cottrill 2017).

Trust is the most important value of leadership. To be a great leader, one must have mutual trust with their subordinates. A leader cannot achieve success without trust. In the past, I have learned that when I did not trust a leader, I had a harder time trying to follow their ideas or mindset. The lack of trust hindered mission success many times. A great leader will most likely always have subordinates that trust them to make the right decisions at any given time. Conversely, the leader will trust that their subordinates will do what is right all the time, and complete all tasks to

Organizational trust can be defined as “the extent to which one engages in a reciprocal interaction and a relationship in such a way that there is willingness to be vulnerable to another and to assume risk with positive expectations and a degree of confidence that the other party will possess some semblance of benevolence, care, competence, honesty, openness, reliability, respect, hope and wisdom” (Kutsyuruba & Walker, 2015, p. 109). When there is trust in an organization, it is more likely that it will be a successful, safe and respectful working environment. This is because employees will feel valued and want to put their all into their job.

According to Harvard Business school professor Amy Cuddy along side fellow psychologists Susan Fiske and Peter Glick in the book, “Presence” that says people quickly judge you on two criteria when they first meet you: 1) Can I trust this person, and 2) Can I respect this person. Per Dr Cuddy, “"From an evolutionary perspective," Cuddy says, "it is more crucial to our survival to know whether a person deserves our trust. It makes sense when you consider that in cavemen days it was more important to figure out if your fellow man was going to kill you and steal all your possessions than if he was competent enough to build a good fire. ”The foundation of all relationships, especially in business, is trust. To build teams with a common goal a trustworthy leader can have greater influence and effectiveness to the commitment of the team goal. Trust leads to better communication, ability to inspire, influence, and create real change. One of my personal greatest challenges is working on trusting others. If I as an individual am seeking the trust of others, I myself, must learn to trust others first in order to become a highly effective leader.

A leader must be honest. Without honesty, there is no trust. Without trust, no one will believe your ideas, and if people don’t believe in your ideas then they won’t support you. According to Inc.com, “Strong leaders treat people the way they want to be treated” (The 9 Traits That Define Great Leadership). It is so important that

Abandoned as a hatchling Hara was found on the side of a road by a caring priest. After being taken in Hara was taught the ways of a peaceful priest. One day while praying with the men he called his family their cathedral was raided by demonic forces. Hara watched as his father was executed and his brother taken hostage before he was taken as well. Hara and his brother were tortured for years upon years, until one day his brother, weakened to the point where he could no longer handle it, perished. Overcome by sadness and rage broke free of his chains by using the magic known as Necromancy. Using this dark magic he raised his brother back from the grave, his brother agreed to help him fight his way to freedom but felt great pain the entire time. When Hara and his brother made it to freedom Hara tried to send his brother back to the afterlife but before he could his brother told him,

Leadership requires trust. Trust is a distinctive human feeling. Trust isn't a checklist. Simply doing what you say you will do isn't being trustworthy, its being reliable. We need trust. When surrounded by people who believe what we believe, trust starts to emerge. When this happens we become more willing to take risks, and more willing to experiment, which requires failure by the way. We are more willing to explore and go somewhere that others have not, with the confidence that if we fail, trip over, or turn our backs that those within our community, those we trust and who trust us, will look after us after we are gone and pick us up when we fall. Our very survival depends on it. We are not that good by ourselves

Integrity coupled with loyalty is the focal point of my existence, the twin guiding forces which shape my actions and behaviour both in my personal life and work setting. Integrity, in particular, is the sieve which filters my thoughts and helps me make critical decisions while framing my worldview. The meaning of integrity for me has evolved over the years; while during my academic peregrination integrity translated to being original and not cheating on a test, currently , as a working professional in a corporate setup it resonates more with holding on to my beliefs when faced with undue pressure and plagiarism, not claiming undue credit and acting without bias. It has especially assumed more importance in the last three and a half years since

It is the trust we build in our relationships that make a difference between an effective and ineffective leader. Through my conversations, research and self-reflection I have identified this area – building trust – as a lagging skill. Initially, I thought my issues were around marketing myself and although that is still an issue, I think my ability to read other people and know when trust has been secured is a far more pressing

In order for interpersonal trustworthiness to exist in organizations, a leader-follower relationship must first exist between the parties involved (Caldwell et al., 2010, p. 500). Once that leader-follower relationship is established, leaders have to earn trust. Leaders earn trust by their respective actions, morals and virtues. Trust is can also be based on past history. If something was done in the past which questions a leader’s values, morals or judgment, it would be unlikely that the leader would be trusted in the future. One of the most important parts of being an effective leader is building and maintaining trust. Trust can further be defined as a “multi-dimensional construct comprising different dimensions of the trustee’s attributes that the trustor evaluates” (Ingenhoff and Sommer, 2010, p. 341).