Investigating the Relationship between Servant Leadership and Organizational Trust among Employees of Technical and Vocational Institutes in Zahedan City

The present study is aimed at investigating the relationship between servant leadership and organizational trust among employees of technical and vocational institutes in Zahedan city. The method of the present study is descriptive, of the survey and correlational type. The population of this research includes all the employees of technical and vocational institutes in Zahedan city with a size of 110 individuals and by means of the simple random sampling method, a sample was selected with a size of 86 individuals. The data collection was conducted by means of two questionnaires. Organizational trust standard questionnaire by Shafiʹe (2011) and servant leadership standard questionnaire by Hazrati et al. (2009) were used. In order to answer the research questions, the statistical tests of Pearson correlation coefficient, stepwise regression, independent t-test and one-way analysis of variance (one-way ANOVA) test were used. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between servant leadership and organizational trust of employees of technical and vocational institutes in Zahedan city, there is a direct and significant relationship between dimensions of servicing and humility and modesty, and organizational trust there is a direct and significant relationship between dimensions of honesty and integrity, reliability, competence and organizational commitment, and servant leadership.