Personal Narrative: The Ability To Totally Trust People

One of the biggest issues I have seen in my personal life as well as my working career is the ability to totally trust people. The definition that we looked at in class defines trust as the willingness to be vulnerable to an authority based on positive expectations about the authority’s actions and intentions. A great deal of my distrust at work stems from the total lack of communication within our group. My colleagues and I have conferred on many occasions that management continually withholds information instead of being totally transparent with proposed changes that affect the future career development of team members who are currently not at a managerial level. Another phenomenon that I have noticed within the upper management of my group that destroys trust is the perception that these officials have a specific affinity for personal gain as opposed to shared gain. In my opinion, nothing destroys the morale and trust of a team more than knowing that management is really only concerned with their bonus structure and involving themselves with projects that have high visibility within the company. I have also seen in my career that incentive-based rewards have the ability to de-motivate people as well as motivate. My …show more content…
One of the features that I remember being associated with the T person was in the fact that they would tend to spend little time developing personal relationships in the organization while letting task completion rule their personal interactions in the workplace. After taking this class, however, it now appears to me that developing personal relationships with work colleagues is an essential skill to master, which will pave the way to becoming an effective manager. This will in turn create genuine trust within the group and empowerment, which can lead help foster creativity within the