Cultivating Workers’ Passion through Trust in Leadership of Government Tourism Establishments in Rivers State

Abstract

This study identified the association between trust in leadership and workers’ passion. The purpose was to cultivate workers’ passion through enabling trust in leadership. The study adopted cross-sectional survey, and collected data from a sample of 204 staff drawn from Government tourism establishments in Rivers State. The data collection technique was the questionnaire, and the research data were analyzed using Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation Coefficient. From the data analysis results, it was shown that both descriptive values of trust in leadership and workers passion were low. Although, they were low, they had very high correlation coefficient. It was found that the dispassionate work attitude of staff in Rivers State Tourism Establishments is instigated by distrustful leadership. Drawing from the above, it was concluded that workers passion is triggered by trustworthiness of the leader. The recommendation is that leaders should cultivate honest, reliable and openness to enhance the active engagement of workers in government tourism establishments.