This discussion of movie censorship outlines federal court cases involving controversial films which led to the development of the Motion Picture Association of America Code and Rating System. The Age-Classification System and the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography established in 1968 are described. (EJS)

Discusses the need for educational research organizations (such as the American Educational Research Association) to systematically and critically study their own research priorities, review procedures, membership requirements, and resource allocations. (GC)

Presented in graph form is the annual MENC (Music Educators National Conference) audit report, which shows how MENC's financial condition has changed over the past 10 years when both institutions and individuals have been hard hit by inflation and taxes. (KC)

Uses a multisystems theory of organizational communication and a coorientation paradigm to conceptualize which employees of an organization will achieve the highest level of accuracy in communication with an external public. Uses data from a study of a large business firm to test the conceptualization. (JMF)

A number of common patterns of organizational transition are identified. These describe some very prevalent modes of organizational adaptation that are characterized by the evolution of, and interaction among, environmental, structural, and strategy-making variables. (Author)

Discusses the results of a survey of the policies companies have adopted to protect confidential employee data and the findings of the U.S. Privacy Protection Study Commission. (Author/IRT)

Provides a general treatment of the issue's topic, touching upon material explored by other articles in the issue and noting the efforts of particular organizations and information centers in providing effective retrieval and dissemination of gerontology literature. (JD)

Applies the methods used in the analysis of input-output tables to the study of interdependence among the different subdivisions of organizations. (Author/IRT)

The population ecology view that variation in sets or clusters of organizations should be isomorphic with variation in cluster environment was used to explain structural variation among hospital clusters. Cluster differentiation seems to be casually affected by range of services, average hospital size, and the periodic closing of hospitals.…

A profile of a Chicago (Illinois) architectural firm. Shown are an office building, a public library, an observatory, and two houses. (Author/MLF)

Operationalizes garbage-can theory into a stochastic process model for the case of a traditional Weberian bureaucracy. Illustrates how ambiguity may impinge on decision making within a structural setting familiar to classical organization theorists and derives the managerial implications of garbage-can theory. (Author/IRT)

Examines the use of influence diagrams to help understand political processes within organizations. This technique is illustrated through a case study of a new extended care facility connected to a hospital. (Author/IRT)

Outlines certain basic principles of dialectical interaction and suggests their applicability to interorganizational relations. The notion of resources plays a key role in this framework. (Author/IRT)

Four conceptual dimensions (organizational domain, integration, risk, and need) are explored to determine their likely independent and interactive influences on the adoptability of a computer application in local government. (Author/IRT)

Presents the findings of a questionnaire survey of four different population groups in Washington, DC--associations, corporations, government, and private companies--regarding their communication problems. The cover letter and questionnaire used in the study are included, and the results are tabulated. (JD)