The National Collegiate Athletic Association revenues and expenditures are summarized and the percentage changes from 1988 to 1989 are tabulated. (MSE)

This article provides an overview of decision-making literature, describes individual and organizational decision stages, and reviews selected idiographic influences on decision-making. Also presented is a model for predicting and explaining variations in decision outcomes. These outcomes include affective, cognitive, and behavioral conditions.…

Competition between public and private colleges has existed since the 19th century and was recently heightened by competition in a period of declining enrollments. Several states are working to prevent conflict, build relationships, and foster cooperative action by supporting or creating state associations of all public and private institutions.…

A table lists the total number of self-advocacy organizations for people with developmental disabilities, by state, for the years 1990, 1993, and 1995. The total number of such organizations grew from 374 in 1990 to 743 in 1995. (DB)

Explores successful introduction of collaborative and workgroup computer technologies (such as meetingware and groupware) into the organization, and describes a method used to integrate new concepts and capabilities enterprise-wide. (JKP)

The retiring Executive Director of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) offers his ideas (in the form of excerpts from previous columns) on CEC membership, on being a professional, on today's leaders, and on teaching. (DB)

Potential problems in transferring technology from an idea to a product used by an organization occur in the areas of sponsorship, organization, and timing. Strategies for overcoming barriers include cultivating support, planning, education, cost-benefit analysis, understanding organizational structure, facilitating change, being sensitive to the…

Offers an editorial, in an experimental spirit, that develops a narrow definition for communication, organization, manager, and business and narrow definitions for organizational communication, management communication, and business communication. (MG)

Identifies five types of relationships at work: the unfinished, working alliance, developmental, personal, and transpersonal. For each type, the following are described: contribution to the organization, human motivation, signs of dysfunction, relationship skill needs, and counseling needs. (SK)

This is the ninth in a series of articles concerning the Association for Educational Communications Technology Code of Professional Ethics. It discusses the necessity for members to adequately distinguish personal views from institutional or organizational views. (LRW)

The directory lists community organizations (by state) offering services to deaf and hearing-impaired persons. Organizations listed offer such services as charitable assistance, advocacy/legal services, counseling, crisis intervention, drug/alcohol rehabilitation, interpreting services, job placement, adult literacy, psychiatric services, and…

Explores four topics: (1) organizational rhetoric as a fourth great system of rhetoric; (2) the modeling of organizational rhetoric; (3) representational magic in organizational rhetoric; and (4) the research and pragmatic implications of the fourth system. (MG)

Presents thoughts on organizational rhetoric from the point of view of social scientists, progressives, practitioners, rationalists, and polemicists representing useful touchstones for understanding, analyzing, and critiquing the rhetorical products of today's organizations. (MG)

Describes a study that was designed to document through citation analysis the intellectual development of research on organizations for the years 1972-84. Organizational theory and organizational behavior are highlighted, the use of author cocitation analysis is explained, and future research is suggested. (17 references) (LRW)

This column briefly describes the Council for Exceptional Children's Political Action Network (CEC-PAN), its activities, and history. The author, the current president of CEC, recounts her personal experience in serving as PAN coordinator for Arizona and in lobbying members of Congress. (DB)