Trust is essential for good work. It is one of the key components of a working environment which gives appropriate choice and responsibility to workers.
Without trust the job becomes a grind as professional choice is denied and documentation and bureaucracy are imposed in order for the worker to “prove” to their manager that they are, indeed, doing their job.
The issue of trust, or the lack of it, is one that has been raised repeatedly by Andreas Schleicher, the head of education at the OECD, who has argued that teachers will not be motivated to stay in a profession where they are treated like “widgets” on a factory production line – monitored for quality control and required to adopt processes that they find neither useful or helpful.
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