{"id":8605,"date":"2014-09-26T16:49:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T15:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=8605"},"modified":"2014-09-26T18:10:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T17:10:02","slug":"local-and-central-government-least-trusted-by-staff-ilm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8605","title":{"rendered":"Local and central government least trusted by staff: ILM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Local and central government are the industries least trusted by their own staff, with \u2018budget cuts and upheaval\u2019 causing employee concern, claims a report by the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>A survey of 1,600 UK managers by found just 10% of central and local government employees \u2013 including the police and fire service \u2013 had \u2018high trust\u2019 in their organisations \u2013 the number of positive opinions charted minus the negative. This compares to 32% in education and 34% in financial services, banking and insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Only 29% of public sector managers are thought to have high levels of trust in their organisation, compared to 45% in the private sector and 46% in the third \u2013 according to The truth about trust.<\/p>\n<p>Research suggests leader \u2018openness\u2019 was the highest driver of employee trust, followed by effective communication, the ability to make decisions and competence in their role.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Our research shows relatively low levels of employee trust across the public sector, which we believe is due to uncertainty following several years of budget cuts and upheaval. This challenge is by no means unique to the public sector \u2013 we also see a real opportunity for leaders to transform low trust across the financial services industries by building the open two-way relationships that enable high-performance workplaces,\u2019 said Charles Elvin, CEO of the ILM.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s no surprise that those industries with the lowest trust levels internally are also among the least trusted by the general public. This suggests that the first step to building trust with consumers is to focus on gaining the trust of your most important stakeholders \u2013 your employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Trust is more than a nice-to-have, it is the lifeblood of sustainable organisational performance,\u2019 he added.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i-l-m.com\/~\/media\/ILM%20Website\/Downloads\/Insight\/Reports_from_ILM_website\/ILM-Trust-and-Integrity%20pdf.ashx\" target=\"_blank\">ILM report<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/Local-and-central-government-least-trusted-by-staff-report-finds\/37276\" target=\"_blank\">UK Local Gov article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local and central government are the industries least trusted by their own staff, with \u2018budget cuts and upheaval\u2019 causing employee concern, claims a report by the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM). A survey of 1,600 UK managers by found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8605\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8606,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions\/8606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}