The effects of organizational trust on organizational toxicity and performance

This paper focuses on teachers’ perception of organizational trust, organizational toxicity and performance. Three research questions and hypotheses are formulated for the study. The sample comprised one-hundred fifty-six teachers. A structured questionnaire is used to collect data. Mean, t-test, correlation, and regression analyses are used to answer the research questions and test the hypotheses formulated. The study reveals that the organizational trust affects the organizational toxicity negatively, while it affects the performance positively. Moreover, there are not any significant differences between groups according to the t-test results. The results of the study draw attention the importance of building employee trust to increase performance and reduce adverse outcomes.