Communication, Leadership and Trust in Organizations

Trust in communication and leadership is the key to success in business. This book presents and discusses the main issues and challenges posed by communication, leadership, and trust. The first part of the book describes the communication and trust issues, the second part presents the role of trust in leadership, and the third part describes different examples of implementing trust to organizations. Readers will gain from this book theoretical and practical knowledge of communication, leadership, and trust; empirically validated practice regarding trust and its related concepts; and a novel approach for addressing this topic. This book can be used as a toolbox to improve understanding and opportunities related to building trust in organizations and will be especially valuable for students and researchers in the fields of leadership, organizational communication, business ethics, and trust research.

Joanna Paliszkiewicz works as a full professor at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS--SGGW). She is the director of the Management Institute. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of Vaasa in Finland.

Jose L. Guerrero Cusumano is a Tenured Associate Professor at Georgetown University. He is a faculty member of the Operations and Information Management (OPIM) group at Georgetown Business School. He has been faculty at Georgetown since 1989.