The effects of organizational trust on organizational innovation orientation and risk taking behavior: An application for the public and private banking sector employees in Adana

Nowadays, in a market sector, where there is a continuous change, on one side the organizations need to create trust within the organization and on the other side manage their impact on innovation orientation and risk taking behaviors. The results of these researches vary according to sectors changes. In the banking sector where competition is intense, organizational trust, risk taking and organizational innovation orientation are prominent concepts. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of bank employees operating in Adana on their organizational orientation and their managers and colleagues on their innovation orientation, risk taking behaviors. Another aim of the study was to test whether there was a significant difference between the variables of the study and gender, age, marital status, working time and total work experience. According to the results of the research, it was found that trust in the manager and trust in the organization, which are the sub-dimensions of trust in the organization, did not have a significant effect on the risk taking behavior of the employees, but trust in the colleagues had a positive and significant effect on the risk taking behavior. It was also found that trust in the manager, organization and colleagues had a positive and significant effect on the organizational innovation orientations of the employees. There was no significant difference between the study variables, gender and marital status. It was determined that there was a significant difference between trust in manager and colleagues and age, work and total work experience. It was found that as the age and total work experience of the employees increased, their trust in their colleagues decreased.