Relationship between employee's perceptions of the finance managers' power sources and organizational trust

The purpose of this research is to explore the relationship between managers' power sources and organizational trust levels according to the employee's perceptions in the finance sector. The sample of the study, which conducted a quantitive survey research method, consisted of 340 finance sector employee, working in Istanbul Anatolian-Side in Turkey. One data gathering instrument of the study incorporated the "Organizational Power Sources Scale" developed by Zafer (2008) and the other was the "Organizational Trust Scale" first developed by Daboval, Comish, Swindle and Gaster (1994) and adapted to Turkish by Yılmaz (2005). Descriptive statistics and parametric analysis tests were used to determine the relationship between the power sources and organizational trust. According to the research findings a high or moderately positive relationship was found between power sources except coercive and all organizational trust subdimensions. There is a positively low level of relationship between coercive power and all organizational trust sub-dimensions. There is a positively moderate relationship between sensitivity to employees and organizational trust's subdimension communication environment, as well as a low positive relationship with openness to innovation and trust to administration subscales. Thus, the results revealed that sub-dimensions of organizational power significantly predicted organizational trust scores. Keywords: trust, finance, power, management, leadership