What is the level of trust in your current organization?

Hi HN,

I've worked in a couple of different countries and I've come across very different cultures regarding work. In some places the employees intensely distrusted the company to look out for their best interest and had a 'maximize your reward' mentality which meant do as little as possible while getting paid as much as they could which ended up not being that much perhaps because the circle of trust had been broken and management didn't trust their employees to work very hard either. Or maybe it's the other way around, management didn't trust employees or pay them very well so they decided not to work very hard. It's hard to say what came first but I've seen other cultures where workers were much more trusting towards management and they weren't perceived so much 'enemies' and workers as slackers.

I get that after the last financial crisis workers perceive organisations and the people leading them as greedy and self serving and they see no point in not doing the same. There's probably some geographical variation between attitudes and cultures, I've always perceived opinions on HN regarding work as being of the 'take the money and run' variety, switching jobs as fast as possible and generally having no loyalty in the company. Where do you currently work geographically and what would you say is the level of trust in your organisation these days? Has it been improving after the financial crisis or is it still one of self-serving distrust?