Reveals that the degree of centralization and power varies in different types of organizations as defined by the Hage-Hull typology. (FL)

Surveyed 163 women associate professors and professors to determine the characteristics that contributed to the success of women in the communication disciplines. (PD)

Provides an integrated assessment of literature about communication research on Hispanic and other ethnic groups within the context of assimilation and pluralism. (PD)

Experimentally tests for direction of causality in negative correlations previously found between a measure of teacher control of conversation and measures of deaf primary school children's initiative and loquacity. Results show that as teachers change style, their students follow them, exhibiting changes in initiative and mean length of turn. (RH)

Investigated cognitive assembly processes underlying speech production. Reported results of two experiments demonstrating that when students used an organizing device (an abstract problem-solution sequence) in preparing, practicing, and delivering speeches, they exhibited less silent pausing. (PD)

Reports on a study that tests the hypothesis that simultaneous speech-sign instruction is beneficial for learning for a hearing but language-delayed child. The hypothesis assumes that the child would first demonstrate a preference for sign in labeling vocabulary items but would eventually drop the sign supplement as vocabulary became less…

Reports on three studies that investigated the relationship between message credibility and distortion in the context of a faculty unionization campaign. Concludes that comparisons of this election campaign with others will aid in understanding how people form impressions of sources and messages and select and employ campaign strategies and…

Compliments are not only common daily discourse, but they are also used in companies, government agencies, and universities as written recommendations to determine hiring and promotion decisions. This report analyzes compliments as to structure, form, and content; replies they evoke; characteristics of compliment givers and receivers; and manner…

Develops the notion of "layers" of information within a table and discusses how such layers are typographically distinguished on paper and in a viewdata system. Presents a case study of the difficulties facing a British government department wishing to communicate regularly updated tabular information to the agricultural community. (FL)

Found significant differences in the communication behavior of public relations professionals within the following organizational variables: profit vs. nonprofit, counseling vs. noncounseling, wide vs. narrow spans of control, and upper vs. lower management levels. Provides an approach for understanding communication activity of public relations…

Analyzed inducements offered in brochures advertising the volunteer army. Found that (1) the appeals focused on education benefits, military/civilian job training, and economic incentives and (2) few appeals featured the intrinsic satisfactions of military service. Considers the implications in terms of recruitment and retention problems. (PD)

Uses the following four approaches to review interpersonal communication research conducted by speech communication scholars: (1) dialog, (2) cohesion, (3) message process, and (4) rhetoric. Helps to clarify why different approaches are used in teaching interpersonal communication courses. (PD)

Describes a study of seven language-impaired children that examined the presence and effect of adult communication behaviors that reportedly facilitate children's verbal output. Consecutive adult and child utterances were coded to identify adults' sharing of child's focus, child utterance length, adult utterance type, topic maintenance, lexical…

Describes briefly the state-of-the-art in organizational communication and suggests preliminary guidelines for evaluating the diverse efforts in this area. (PD)

Proposes a schema for categorizing interpretive research in organizational communication by analyzing four interpretive texts on organizational life: Terkel's "Working," Kanter's "Men and Women of the Corporation," Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine," and Heller's "Something Happened." (PD)