Recently there has been a call for a better understanding of trust and distrust. This study examined the components of distrust. Content analysis was used to code the narratives of employees of a large paper-process organization. Separate content analyses examined two themes in the distrust...

This chapter provides a definition of group as used by group communication scholars or inferred by articles published by group communication scholars. The chapter considers group size, group identity, group member interdependence, group goal, and group structure as fundamental to groups....

Group communication as an area of intellectual interest had its beginnings in communication pedagogy with the goal of helping students to become more effective decision makers. A by-product is that group decision making became and remained a central research focus for many years. In the last 20...