To communicate effectively within groups and teams, we must understand ourrelationships with other members and how those relationships influence the tasksand activities that the groups and teams undertake. Communicating in Groups,Third Edition, emphasizes that all groups--decision-making and social--requiremembers to successfully convey both relational and task messages. Author JoannKeyton points to the five key elements that define a group--size,interdependence, identity, goal, and structures--and demonstrates how groupprocesses are facilitated or hindered by them. Using examples from fieldresearch on both task and social groups, Keyton depicts group interaction as itemerges through conversation. She provides frameworks for analyzing groupinteraction, recommendations for effective group practice, and numeroustranscripts of authentic group communication that help to underscore theconcepts.Thoroughly revised in this third edition, the book features new material oncommunication structures, group tasks and activities, communication competence,and decision making. Keyton includes updated literature reflecting recentcommunication and interdisciplinary group theory and research, and she alsoplaces more emphasis on gender and cultural diversity, stressing the need forstudents to consider the multiple ways in which diversity influences groupinteraction. Highlighting the important connection between task and relationalmessages in both task and social groups, Communicating in Groups, Third Edition,is ideal for undergraduate courses in group and team communication, as well asfor management and business communication courses in group behavior andteamwork.