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Dunning, Robert Scott; Sincoff, Michael Z. – 1978
In long established research organizations, it is necessary to safeguard good research ideas originating at lower organizational levels. The upward progress of unusually good ideas in an organizational hierarchy may be compared with that of ordinary ideas by means of a mathematical model, with the assumption that ideas follow a Poisson…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Bureaucracy, Communication (Thought Transfer), Group Structure
Stech, Ernest L. – 1980
A study of coordination modes in work group communication was conducted to evaluate and expand leadership contingency models. A total of 106 people in classes and workshops on organizational communication completed seven questionnaires resulting in nine measures of six independent variables representing the following contingency factors from…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Contingency Management, Group Dynamics
Deutelbaum, Wendy – 1978
In contrast to a teacher-dominated literature classroom where authority rests with the one who has the power to grade, a classroom dedicated to cultivating the creative process breaks down the traditional hierarchies (such as theory and practice, text and reader, and organization and improvisation) and concentrates on the needs of the individual…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication (Thought Transfer), Creativity, English Instruction