Managing People

Work place Management

Trust is a fragile commodity in management, yet an exceedingly valuable one. It can make all the difference between an employee who is emotionally committed to an organization, engaged, highly productive and one who is disengaged or even destructive.

One of the elements of a successful employee-manager relationship is trust. When the sense of trust is strong between an employee and manager, it adds efficiency to other elements of workplace productivity.

Many Managers lack fundamental training in managing people. Skills and techniques are easier to teach, but values, beliefs and attitudes are much harder to teach and harder for managers to learn. Think of trust like a bank account. You extend trust “credits” proportional to the risk you are willing to take with someone. When that person honors the trust you’ve granted, then he or she gets a deposit in the trust account. When the person says or does something that busts your trust, then you deduct from their trust account.

Trust accounts can become overdrawn and create situations where it’s foolish to extend trust because there is no more trust to give. Trust busters are behaviors that destroy trust, sabotage relationships, and reduce the balance in the “trust account.”  Beware of trust busters.

Aiyan Thiruvalluvar's view on trustworthy

தேரான் தெளிவும் தெளிந்தான்கண் ஐயுறவும்

தீரா இடும்பை தரும். (510)

परखे बिन विश्वास भी, औ’ करके विश्वास ।
फिर करना सन्देह भी, देते हैं चिर नाश ॥ (५१०)

Explanation by Scholars: 

Trusting a unworthy person and doubting a worthy person will give irremediable sorrow.

தேரான் தெளிவும் =  Trusting a unworthy person

தெளிந்தான்கண் ஐயுறவும் = doubting a worthy person

தீரா இடும்பை தரும் =  will give irremediable sorrow