Role of Trust in Creating Good Leader

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ROLE OF TRUST IN CREATING GOOD LEADER
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Trust is considered as the main pillar of all human connections that include every
individuals like family members, friends, partner, colleagues and others. To define trust we
need to go in depth beyond all practical human norms. Trust is the deep sense of belief, faith,
and actions related to different human emotions (Bligh, 2017). The aim of this paper is to
provide a detail overview of the role of trust in creating good leader. In any organization,
trust plays a vital role in maintaining healthy work environment. Trust is the main foundation
that helps to hold the organization and its staffs together (Bligh, 2017). In workplace, trust
use to determine two major things like leader’s ability to motivate every employees associate
with the organization and the degree of efficiency of any leader in maintaining organizational
sustainability in competitive market. Employees usually prefers to work with an efficient
leader who always stand beside them in tough days. Trust can also define as the mutual bond
between individuals that helps them to sustain every difficulties of life. Trust is responsible
for generating a feeling of dependency among the subordinates towards their leader. It helps
to make employees feel secure and provide confidence to overcome sudden threats.
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Trust is referred to as the key factor for every leader that helps them to reach success.
In other words, trust can be defined as the expectation of one person that generate from the
feelings of belongings. Trust attains the popularity of achieving respect from people around
us (Bligh, 2017). For any leader, generating a trustworthy relation among all the team
members benefits organizational performance. No matter how effective a leader in his
performance, if no one trusts him then he is not considered as a good leader. In order to
achieve a good leaderships skills an individual needs to create a friendly work environment
that would help employees feel confident in clearing their doubts and share different ideas

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with his leader. This leads to generate trust in both sides. Simultaneously, it the sole
responsibility of any organizational leader to maintain trustworthy relation with the founder
or CEO of the firm to attain organizational goals and build a good brand promotion strategy
in the market. In order to enhance the employees productivity and creativity, a leader should
make his subordinates feel that he has complete faith on the effort provided by his
juniors.This results to generate team’s commitment in fulfilling organizational goals and
helps to provide job satisfaction to staffs. A leader should not only gain public trust but also
develop his skills to analyze critical situation and take steps to solve them (Campbell & Im,
2015). However, trust is the primary source of enhancing confidence level among the
employees a leader should show a positive attitude towards his subordinates and motivate
them to cope up with organizational barriers.
In Australia, there are two types of leadership styles that considers trust as the major
component in reaching organizational goals. In case of transformational leadership, leader
needs to create a trustworthy environment that help the employees to perform their task
efficiently and effectively (Leadership & Leadership, 2019). This leadership style has
determined the close relationship between the leader and its subordinates with the purpose of
contributing joint effort that may help the organization in achieving its target (Ekaningsih,
2014). The main concept of transformational leadership is based on motivating employees or
inspiring subordinates for enriching the organisational profit (Braun et al., 2013). Leaders
who follows transformational leadership are considered as the most helpful supervisors
because they not only help the organization to meet its target but also helps to prevent
employee retention (Epubs.scu.edu.au, 2019). The leader is always responsible for generating
employee willingness to serve better performance that may help the organization sustain in
the Australian market (Holland, Cooper & Sheehan, 2017).