Abstract
Sixteen principals and administrative staff at seven international schools in the area participated in semi-structured interviews, responding to 18 open-ended questions relating to their views on trust, including its development, and the five "facets of trust" proposed by Tschannen-Moran and Hoy (2000) and its role in leadership. Findings indicated the tendency to base trust primarily on competence was more prominent among Chinese than Western participants and among males than females in this study. In contrast, the likelihood of viewing trust in terms of relationships was greater for Western than Chinese participants and for females than males. This study also found that males and females tend to view trust development differently. Males are more inclined to describe trust development in a somewhat transactional framework, while females exhibited a more interdependent (relational) view. Similarities to existing theory, including the five facets of trust, were also found.
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