The ultimate aim of any modern corporate is growth with profit maximization. Growth is the first and foremost characteristic of nature and its products which include modern societies with all their industrial, agricultural and service sectors and above all the research organizations to cater to the needs of primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. Governed by the laws of the universe and nature, societies, markets and above all human life are in the constant churn of development in the realm of creativity and innovativeness.

In this competitive age, trust plays an important role for the smooth functioning of an organization. Things are totally different these days. Instead of traditional bureaucratic organizations, we have more flexible and informal organizations. Also, team-based organizations are giving better results in the present scenario. In this kind of environment, the trust factor has become more relevant and important. Though trust has always been seen as one of the essential ingredients of a social life, now within an organization it has been recently looked upon due to its increasing importance. This paper highlights the role of trust between a leader and his followers. Leadership and trust go together and leadership cannot exist without a requisite amount of trust.

In this modern era, where competition has become a part of life and all organizations are in search of means for having a competitive edge over others, with increased levels of efficiency and productivity, trust within an organization plays a significant role. Gone are the days when the traditional bureaucratic organizations, which did not differentiate between man and machine, could survive. It has been proved by research that team-based organizations are more efficient and give better results than the traditional ones.1 Because of this development, the importance of trust has been looked upon in the recent years because of trust being the guiding star to effective teamwork.2 Trust has always been seen as an essential ingredient of a social life but trust within an organization has only been recently looked upon due to its increased importance.3 Thus trust in a leader-follower relationship is also an area, which had not been explored until recently.

As explained above, with the revolutionary change (which deals with valuing the man power within the organization) that has swept off the traditional bureaucratic organizations and has given way for effective team-based organizations, trust has become the soul of an organization. The fact that people can work as a team only after they trust each other need not be explained. When the people of an organization decide to do something, all of them invest in some or the other form in the said assignment, and all hope for positive results because all whether emotionally (psychologically) or physically contribute to the task. Hence, all the members of the organization, in some or the other manner, make themselves vulnerable and dependent to the actions of the other members, and this is how a common man would define trust.