ABSTRACT
Downs, DeWine, and Greenbaum (1994), writing in the first volume of Communication Research Measures: A Sourcebook (Rubin, Palmgreen, & Sypher, 1994), surveyed more than 50 measures of organizational and team/group communication published between 1957 and 1991. The instruments they discussed were among more than 500 identified by Greenbaum and Gardner (1985) as having been cited in communication journals and dissertations over more than three decades, although only 20% of those had been used as many as three times and many within the originators’ own programs of research. Nearly all the measures discussed by Downs et al. (1994) appeared in print before the mid-1980s, the beginning of the “interpretive turn” in organizational communication research that followed from a summer conference at Alta, Utah, in the early 1980s (Putnam & Pacanowsky, 1983). Numerous changes in the areas of organizational and group communication have affected the number and type of measures developed since the Downs et al. (1994) review, the period that is the primary focus of this chapter.
