Intimidation Strategy and Subordinate Trustworthiness in State Government Parastatals in South-South, Nigeria
Vol.6 Issue1
This study examined the relationship between intimidation strategy and subordinate trustworthiness in State government parastatals in the south-south of Nigeria. It adopted subordinate resilience and subordinate benevolence as measures of subordinate trustworthiness. It utilized the survey design and obtained data from 273 staff of 11 state government parastatals in the South-South. The Spearman rank order correlation was used in the test for the bivariate correlation between intimidation strategy and measures of subordinate trustworthiness. Findings from the study revealed that the use of intimidation strategy negatively relates with subordinate trustworthiness; and banking on this finding, we conclude that the application of intimidation strategy in dealing with employees in order to gain their trust is not a healthy approach in managing people in modern organization as it breeds more disharmony and consequently leads the organization into chaos. Thus, it was recommended that intimidation tendency should be controlled within the workplace and emphasis placed on driving collaboration and mutual value and respect within the organization such that enhances its level of bonding and cooperation between supervisors and their subordinates within the organization
