Trust and Interpersonal Relationship

Trust and Interpersonal Relationships

Conduct individual research and locate an article from the University Library on how trust affects interpersonal relationships. Then prepare a response to the following questions:

• When working in teams, is trust assumed or do team members have to earn trust?

• Consider how trust is lost when working in teams and how to keep trust among team members.

• Relate findings from the article to your answer

When working with teams your first thought are doubts about your team members like are they going to do their part of the work. Will there be someone in the group that would be lazy and not contribute anything but still receive credit. Another would the personality types. Will they be aggressive and take control of everything and try to tell you what to do and not care about your opinion. I would that trust is assumed and while you work on your project that when you get to know on another trust is than earned. Having considerations for the people you are working with also helps to gain some sense of trust and security within the group. “Thus, building on their sense of general trust or distrust (dispositional trust mediated by caution), as people interact with strangers and start to gain isolated pieces of information about them, they use the information to attribute motives, attitudes and goals, construe patterns and revise their predictions of the others’ behavior. As interaction continues, the decisions are increasingly based on specific, rather than general, assessment and attributions.” (pg 65).

If trust is lost within the teams, it makes it more difficult to communicate with each other and you start to work on your own and in the end nothing comes out the way it should because there’s no trust within the group. Nobody will cooperate with one another and conflict would arise in the process of trying to work together. “Many scholars, following Deutsch (1958), posit that trust is a necessary antecedent to...