In the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, trust is defined as- 1 a: to place confidence: DEPEND b: to be confident: HOPE
2: to sell or deliver on credit transitive senses1 a: to commit or place in one's care or keeping ENTRUST b: to permit to stay or go or to do something without fear or misgiving 2 a: to rely on the truthfulness or accuracy of: BELIEVE b: to place confidence in rely on c: to hope or expect confidently.
Lateral - trust relations among peers or equals.
Vertical - trust relations between a supervisor and subordinate.
External - trust relations between an organization and its clients or suppliers.
The lateral trust involves your fellow employees; they need to know that they can depend on you if ever the time should come. This involves doing things that they aren’t around for or able to do- in other words you are standing in for them, taking their place. The way to build their trust on you is to show them that you know all there is to know about the subject. This means jumping at opportunities to do things that they don’t think you’re ready for and you proving them wrong.
nvolves your supervisor and subordinate. The word subordinate is defined as:
Honesty is defined in the dictionary as:
Once you’re found out for lying there’s really no turning back. You’ll always be known as the one that people aren’t sure they can trust with what you tell them. The only solution to this is to never lie. No matter how bad the truth may be- it’s no worse than the lies that you’ll have to tell to cover them up with. Honesty is one of the three qualities people look for in health workplaces. Supervisors want to know that they have employees that know all their “stuff” and won’t have to worry about if a disaster happened who could be depended on.