CORRELATION BETWEEN TRUST AND THE ATTITUDE OF EMPLOYERS TOWARDS EMPLOYEES
Resume. This article explores the correlation between the employers' trust to their employees and their attitude towards them. General level of trust of the leaders to their subordinates is higher than average, employed leaders trust to their subordinates more than the owners and women more than men. The highest degree of trust to the employees have employed leaders-women. The degree of trust of the leader to his subordinates does not depend on his age or length of his administrative activity. Correlation analysis has discovered 18 interconnections testifying that the leaders' trust to their subordinates is closely connected with such indicators of his psychological attitude towards them as subjectivity-objectivity and dependence-independence from the group. The results received indicate that the more subjective the attitude of the leader to his subordinates is, that is the more he perceives them not as means for his aims, but as confederates, friends or family members, the higher is the degree of trust to them. The dependence of the leader on the group manifests itself to the greatest extent in his positive attitude towards the subordinates' opinions. High degree of trust is connected not only with the greater dependence on the opinion of some employees, but also with the feeling of unity with the group as a whole. Psychological attitude of the leader towards the subordinates has an inevitable effect upon interpersonal cooperation and consequently upon relationship of the leader with the group. Leaders, characterized by a greater extent of friendliness (informality) of the relations with the subordinates, have a considerably greater degree of trust to them.