The components of the trustworthiness in the interpersonal elationships among University teachers

Abstract

Given it is understood what trustworthy co-workers can have different answers, the objective of this study was to obtain a concensus of four panels of experts of which are the behaviors and attitudes that favor the perception of trustworthiness among professors`, and to contrast it with a model of 5 dimensions of the trustworthiness. It was carried out with 4 Delphi groups, the experts consisted of 38 university professors belonging to Faculty of Socials Sciences. Results show that the proposed model is a partially adequate mark to understand trustworthiness. More behaviors and attitudes of benevolence are named, however, what could be most important is to develop the trustworthiness corresponding to the dimension of integrity. How university teachers create trustworthiness in the workplace was discussed.