A case study to defi̇ne the relation between organizational trust and psychological capital

The development socurring in ourage of business world, fierce competition environment have forced organizations to be more flexible and organic structure. Assuring cooperation among employees, keeping the communication channels open, developing team spirit, attaching importance to emplyees knowledge and skill development, meeting employees,expectation and needs are the foundation strategies that organizations are obliged to implement. Trust phenomen to have been vital necessity on in such an organization is sum and substance. Vital necessity During recent years, it has been to appeared from the studies on organizational structure that trust atmosphere of an organization occupy a vital position among factors which make organizations successfull. Besides, the Notion psychological capital which is one of the important studies to analyze employees, positive behaviors is a very important source both individually and organizationally. In this study, there altion between organizational trust and psychological capital have been searched, which enables positive outputs, organizational trust has been examined in three different categories: trust to manager, collegues, institution. Psychological capital has also been examined with hope, optimism, endurance, self-sufficiency dimensions. In the practice part of there search, a survey has been applied to personel workingin public education sector as middle and lower level employees. 112 out of 120 surveys have been answered. Then this data has been analyzed respectively with reliability analysis, factor anlysis, and t test in SPSS 17.0 software. As a result of analyses, it has been founded that organizational trust has relation with hope and optimism which are the components of psychological capital. Key Words: Organizational Trust, Psychological Capital.