Explores the International Communication Association (ICA) Audit process including goals, products, instruments, audit logistics and timetable, feedback of results and follow-up, costs, current status and audits conducted to date. (ED.)

Provides an informal critique of some of the weaknesses and strengths of the ICA Communication Audit within the context of its theoretical importance and practicality. (MH)

The DELTA Chart acts as a communication device by displaying project needs in flow-chart form. Its five elements are: Decision box, Event box, Logic box, Time Arrow, and Activity box. It can also provide the administrator with better planning and monitoring capabilities. For journal availability see HE 509 147. (LBH)

Focuses on factors or behaviors considered most influential in affecting communication climate within a large telecommunications corporation. (MH)

Given their ability to scan and interpret information from external areas and to transfer this information to the innovating unit, persons filling boundary roles can be seen as an important information processing mechanism in the innovation process. (Author/IRT)

Cites two examples pertaining to the cultural context of technical communication in which cultural factors affected the writing problems that surfaced. Argues that teachers and consultants must make their students and clients aware of the cultural effects pertaining to their writing. (HTH)

Presents a small Kansas school district's five-step approach to public relations. Success hinges on coordinating school activities on a master calendar, publishing a monthly newsletter, writing weekly progress reports to board members, telephoning parents, and acknowledging staff and student contributions. An inset furnishes advice about effective…

Analyzes public relations writing as an activity which is uniquely related to organizational goals and objectives. Provides a basis for theory by linking rhetorical theory and communication management and describes a method for framing public relations writing objectives. Notes that objective statements are useful because, among other things, they…

Presents a model to examine how social influence processes affect individuals' attitudes toward communication media and media use behavior, integrating two research areas: media use patterns as the outcome of objectively rational choices and social information processing theory. Asserts (in a synthesis) that media characteristics and attitudes are…

Presents the Targowski/Bowman model of the communication process, which introduces a new paradigm that isolates the various components for individual measurement and analysis, places these components into a unified whole, and places communication and its business component into a larger cultural context. (MM)

Notes that "identification" and "commitment" appear frequently in organizational studies as ways of describing the individual's connection with the organization and argues that the concepts are distinct but interrelated. Sees identification as the substance of individual-organization relationships and commitment as the form.…

Offers models of three message design logics--expressive, conventional, and rhetorical--as alternatives to the premises and beliefs of ends to means reasoning. Describes a general method of message analysis based on these models, which is exemplified in a study of messages used in addressing a regulative communication task. (MM)

Indicates that, of the thirteen variables investigated, group support has the greatest relationship to work stress. Finds that role overload and responsibility for people are significantly related to behavioral style. Shows that group and individual level communication variables are more closely related to work stress than organizational…

Suggests an important modification to H. A. Simon's original Model of Interaction in social groups to (1) explain the emergence and organizational structure of communication, friendship, and activity patterns and (2) trace their effect on human sentiment. Indicates that the more frequently people interact with one another, the stronger their…