Trust in Organizations

Trust plays a central role in organizational life. It facilitates exchanges among individuals enhances cooperation and coordination and contributes to more effective relationships. This volume brings together a cross-disciplinary group of contributors to present some of the latest most exciting conceptual perspectives in the field and to demonstrate a variety of new methodological approaches to the study of trust. It includes discussions on: the psychological and social antecedents of trust; the effects of social and organizational structures on trust; and the broad effects of trust on organizational functioning.