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There is practically no manager or senior executive in any organization who does not want to reduce stress and workload. How and to what extent they really go about it is the real question. Let's take a look at the advantages of trusting your employees :-

1. The basic benefit of trusting your employees is that you become confident of delegating your duties to them within the approved hierarchy and/or the organization structure. This paves the way for the devotion of your (perhaps) more precious time on activities which add higher value to the business.

2. The next important benefit of trusting your employees is that you are able to wisely do succession planning within the organization. Unless you trust someone, you cannot delegate; unless you delegate, you cannot expect accountability; and unless you make someone accountable, you cannot expect one to be an effective 'successor' to anyone else!

3. The morale and motivation which your trust in your employees create play a vital role in staff empowerment and enhanced contribution to organizational goals. You also become an indirect yet obvious beneficiary of this process !

4. Trust is reciprocal and highly infectious ! Trust breeds trust - so does mistrust.

It is a reasonable phenomenon that in a department within an organization, all employees are not equally trustworthy. The remedy in this case lies in a job rotation, lateral transfer (to another department), job enrichment, piecemeal delegation of authority, etc., some of which can prove successful in obtaining the desired change in behavior.

If you find that there is no one in the organization in whom you can repose trust, there is something fundamentally wrong in yourself ! You may try for a job change (i.e., another employer), bearing in mind the fact that whatever be the organization TRUST is no more a matter of choice. You have to necessarily trust a majority of your subordinates, peers and superiors - and vice versa. TRUST OR PERISH !

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