A Study on the Level of Organizational Trust at Tahri Mohamed University from an Academic Perspective: The Case of the Faculty of Economic, Commercial and Management Sciences

This study aims to examine the perceptions of organizational trust among faculty members in the Faculty of Economics, Commercial Sciences, And Management Sciences at Tahri Mohamed University of Bechar across three dimensions: lateral trust (trust among professors), vertical trust (in the dean, heads of departments, and their deputies), and institutional trust (in the university policies and procedures). A descriptive approach was used, and data were collected through an online questionnaire distributed to all 106 full-time faculty members, with 54 responses received (50.9%). The data was analyzed using SPSS V29.0. The results show that lateral trust is the highest, followed by a moderately positive level of vertical trust, while institutional trust is weakly positive. Statistically significant differences were found between the three trust dimensions, revealing a clear hierarchy: lateral truat is the strongest, vertical trust comes second, and institutional