Developing trusting relationships and reducing teacher burnout are two pressing issues that principals and superintendents confront on a daily basis in public schools. With the increasing demands of state mandated testing, No Child Left Behind, and improving standards for all students, principals and superintendents need to understand the relationship between the factors that influence student performance and a positive learning environment. The purpose of this study was to analyze teacher trust in the principal and teacher burnout as identified by teachers in selected Texas public schools. In this study, a cross-tabulation of teacher burnout by teacher trust in the principal indicated a moderate to strong association between the two variables. The Pearson product-moment correlation produced a strong, positive correlation of 0.61 (p<0.01) between teacher trust in the principal and teacher burnout. In addition, teachers who indicated low trust in the principal are about 28 percent more likely to experience high teacher burnout. In fact, out of the 315 teachers who completed this survey, not one teacher who reported high teacher trust in the principal scored high on teacher burnout. Next, the researcher explored how selected demographic variables influenced the teacher trust-burnout relationship. According to this study, the number of years that the teacher has worked with the principal has a strong influence on the teacher trust-burnout relationship, and the teacher’s age and the teacher’s experience have a moderate effect. In addition, teacher gender appears to have a slight effect on the teacher trust-burnout relationship, and principal gender, principal age, and principal race appear to not affect the teacher trust-burnout relationship at all. The researcher was unable to draw any conclusions on the influence of teacher race on the teacher trust-burnout relationship due to the small number of African American, Hispanic, Asian, and other race teacher respondents. Finally, the multivariate regression analysis suggested that teacher trust in the principal and the demographic variables in this study account for nearly 40 percent of the variance for teacher burnout. The results of this study suggest that principals must focus on developing trusting relationships with their teachers to reduce teacher burnout.

The issue of preventive health policy has become increasingly important topic. A point worth emphasizing here for the managers, market scholars, or policy makers is that whether the health policy would change the consumer behavior. For considerable efforts to encouraging consumer taking the physical examination, here, marketing signaling and costumers perceived trust might be considered as marketing strategies in this dissertation.

In the energy service industry, many companies aware of the limitation of their own resources. A company is no longer able to compete with others alone, so they try to forge the strategic alliances to get the important resources to achieve their strategic goals. On the other side, cooperation with other companies is deeply influenced by the interactions among partners. The cooperation could be broken because of the lack of the communication. The purpose of this study is to discuss the factors affecting the cooperation performance. The discussed factors include communication, dependence, trust, and firm characteristics. The results show that a competitive-collaboration relationship is very popular. Many companies in this industry are small-middle size. Since they have the problems of ¡§diseconomies of scale¡¨ and ¡§scarce resource¡¨, organizations emphasize on cooperating. To strength cooperation performance, good communication has significantly effect on goal achievement, and high trust and dependence would enhance satisfaction with each other.

Zugl.: Göttingen, Univ., Diss., 2007

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [72-75]).

Thesis (M.S.) in Human Development--University of Maine, 2001. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44-47).

Trust among individuals is essential for transactions. A human or software agent in need of resources may reduce transaction risk by modeling the trustworthiness of potential partners. Experience- and reputation-based trust models have unique advantages and disadvantages depending on environment factors, including availability of experience opportunities, trustee trustworthiness dynamics, reputation accuracy, and reputation cost. This research identifies how trusters may utilize both experience- and reputation-based trust modeling to achieve more accurate decision-making tools than using either modeling technique alone. The research produces: 1) the Adaptive Trust Modeling technique for combining experience- vs. reputation-based models to produce the most accurate aggregated model possible, 2) a quantitative analysis of the tradeoffs between experience- and reputation-based models to determine conditions under which each type of model is favorable, and 3) an Adaptive Cost Selection algorithm for assessing the value of trust information given acquisition costs. Experiments show that Adaptive Trust Modeling yields an aggregate trust model more accurate than either experience- or reputation-based modeling alone, and Adaptive Cost Selection acquires the optimal combination of trust information, maximizing a truster's transaction payoff while minimizing trust information costs. These tools enable humans and software agents to make effective trust-based decisions given dynamic system conditions.

The present study examined how a leader’s behavioural intentions are affected by the trustworthiness of their subordinate using the Affective-Cognitive trust model (Gillespie, 2003; McAllister, 1995). Two-hundred and twenty-five undergraduate students participated in an experimental study that assessed their willingness to engage in reliance and disclosure behaviours based on their perceptions of affective and cognitive trust. Given concerns about the conceptual overlap between trust and liking, we controlled for liking. Consistent with our hypotheses we found that cognitive trust predicted participant’s willingness to engage in reliance behaviours, whereas affective trust predicted participant’s willingness to engage in disclosure behaviours. However, when we controlled for liking, these findings held for disclosure behaviours but did not for reliance behaviours. Limitations of our study and implications for both research and practice are discussed.

Volunteer organisations provide significant value to society. However, limited research exists on ways through which volunteer organisations can manage the behaviour and attitudes of their volunteers. The main purpose of this study was to contribute to literature in this area by assessing the applicability of setting appropriate recruitment expectations and fostering organisational trust in the volunteer context. This was done by examining the influence of the relationship between pre-entry recruitment expectations and post-entry experiences of volunteers on levels of satisfaction, commitment, co-operative behaviour and turnover intentions. The influence of organisational trust on these variables was also assessed. Volunteers from a national non-profit organisation were given a survey of their expectations shortly after joining (and prior to undertaking any voluntary work), and then completed another set of measures two months later after participation in voluntary training and activities. Sampling resulted in 22 matched surveys between phase one and phase two. Results partially suggest that expectations and organisational trust are associated with volunteer satisfaction levels, and provide evidence indicating that further research in this area using a larger sample may reveal significant associations. Overall, the present study suggests that volunteer organisations can benefit from the appropriate management of recruitment processes and organisational trust, and provides a foundation for further research on this topic.

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