Reviews the growing body of literature on issue management and surveys the top 21 "Fortune" 500 industrial corporations of 1985. Offers a definition of issue management which may provide a common framework in which issue management may be correctly understood and recognized. (MS)

Focuses on the impact of the motives of participants in organizational romances, the illicitness of the relationship, and the power of the relational participants. Finds that only certain types of relationships showed associations with organizational effectiveness; illicitness was associated with negative outcomes in group work, not with…

Finds that, in situations involving conflict inherent in professional truth-telling/deception dilemmas, nurses' choices of a conflict management strategy are importantly influenced by characteristics of professional role, and organizational situation. (SR)

Offers a processual (sic) approach suited to the complex nature of organizational commitment during times of radical change. Emphasizes commitment as communication processes that are integrally tied to the creation of organizational cultures, involve identification via symbolic processes, and encompass various degrees of linkages between…

States that in a series of two studies, research identified situations in which superiors and subordinates felt the need to maintain their relationships; delineated communication tactics and strategies that were consciously enacted to maintain relationships; and investigated how superiors and subordinates in different kinds of relationship…

States that in addition to reflecting the social and power relationships between the writer and the reader, politeness strategies in administrative writing reflect the values of the organization. Offers a context-based approach to analyzing administrative writing, an approach that can be used to uncover discourse strategies in other organizational…

Presents a grounded theory study of coordination and communication in the provision of service to the urban homeless, to understand the social world of agencies providing such services. Concentrates on interorganizational relationships that facilitate (or hinder) coordinated efforts to provide homelessness services. (SR)

Suggests that those with different attachment styles will react to nonverbal involvement change in a manner consistent with their approach/avoidance orientations and mental working models of self and others. Finds that regardless of attachment style, targets reciprocated confederate behavior in increase-involvement conditions and displayed…

Investigates attributional implications of prosecutors' and defense attorneys' language strategies using the protocols of the historical Nuremberg trials. States that apart from more positive statements regarding the defendants being made by defense lawyers than prosecutors, both sides used a number of subtler strategies. (PA)

Found that revenge had a strong impact on attributions and accounts following sexual infidelity, whereas intent only inversely influenced the production of guilt. Found that concessions were perceived as being the most mitigating while refusals and silence were evaluated as most aggravating. Consistent with traditional and modern sexual double…

Advances a complexity account that suggests that there are increased processing-capacity and temporal demands associated with formulating and maintaining more complex message representations. Reports on four studies of this complexity account. Suggests that results of these studies provide considerable support for the complexity hypothesis. (RS)

Lays out a systematic analysis of different experimental designs for message effects research. Discusses advantages of designs that include replications. Considers the issue of a fixed- versus random-effects analysis, and argues that replication factors should be treated as random except in very unusual circumstances. Examines in detail two…

Introduces a special issue on critical histories of graphic design with a review of the particular problems identified with the history of graphic design as a field of study and the emerging discipline of graphic design history. Makes a case for the examination of graphic design through its relationships with larger discourses. (SR)

Introduces the subject/object juxtapositions inherent in the writing of history. Compares these "perspectives" with subject/object positions in the visual arts to present not only a background to current historiographic models, but to also suggest ways to extend beyond traditional historical method. (SR)

Argues that design, despite frequently well-intentioned ethical starting-points, has become generalized and rudimentary in its substantive and instrumental choices, and naive in its thinking about its own public role. Argues for a "mental ecology," for a multidimensional realistic reflexivity, which makes possible the recuperation of a…