This monograph is an historical document portraying the problems of starting Florida's first ten teacher education centers (1974-75). Its aim is to provide information to individuals and groups considering active participation in teacher education centers. The document is organized as four sections followed by a bibliography and appendix. The…

The purpose of the conference reported on in this document was to bring insight into the broad area of communication. Contents include the conference program and papers presented at the conference, divided into four parts: research in the field of communication, communication in the organization, insights into the teaching of business…

In advancing an overall organizational pattern for the field of cross-cultural communication, it seems logical to divide the cross-cultural studies into the two major categories of international and intercultural. Four major types of communication can be classed as international: diplomatic and international political communication, American…

The Governing Board of the Southern Consortium of Black Colleges for Teacher Education determined that its future depended upon clarification and reaffirmation of its mission. As a result, a workshop was arranged to assist the Governing Board in (1) determining its mission, (2) determining its three major program themes, and (3) establishing for…

The purpose of this study was to determine which communication competencies will be essential to those entering a business or a profession in 1980. The 107 subjects used were "experts" in the area of business and organizational communication who responded to four questionnaires. It was concluded that college courses designed to enhance one set of…

Investigating the networks of communication in organizations leads to an understanding of efficient and inefficient information dissemination as practiced in large systems. Most important in organizational communication is the role of the "liaison person"--the coordinator of intercommunication. When functioning efficiently, coordinators maintain…

This paper outlines an instructional paradigm which can be utilized in any learning environment and discusses four instructional strategies which can be implemented in the teaching of organizational communication within a given instructional system. The instructional system, as defined in this paper, is a collection of people and things that has…

The governmental process entails a great deal of talk and writing. Much political language is informal, and some is official. In either case, its linguistic categorizations shape perceptions and feelings about problematic and controversial public issues, reflecting and playing upon the ambivalence and changing perspectives of all who are involved.…

The project reported in this paper reflects an effort to establish an audit plan which can serve as a basis for discussion and which may evolve into a useful research tool for studying the internal information diffusion system of a complex organization. A mass communication model, modified from Harold D. Lasswell, was adopted to represent the key…

This paper reports on initial efforts to develop and test a model which will account for the formation of communication structure in large organizations. Communication structure may be defined as those metric variables obtained from the quantitative analysis of communication network data. Communication networks may be defined as the patterns of…

This paper builds a theory of organizational communication which explains communication at several system levels. The theory is built around a decision-situation model of communication theory and incorporates concepts of organization structure and behavior taken from research on complex organizations. The theory is supported with original data…

If the justification for the existence of an area of study called organizational communication is that communication scholars have something to say to people in organizations, then researchers in the field must be able to take their knowledge into the work-a-day world and make themselves understood to people who are not social scientists. While…

Oral communication is the primary mode used by members of organizational groups to build and intercommunicate shared cultural myths and values. Verbal communication within organizational groups--businesses, church congregations, nursing teams, and the like--is the foundation of the reality shared by members of the groups. Finding the master…

The purpose of this booklet is to provide school board members, administrators, teachers, and others interested in education with an understanding of radio, how it works, and how school systems can take advantage of the communications possibilities offered by radio. After providing background information on radio as a mass communications medium…

This monograph first reviews a theory of individual communication behavior and points out the similarities between that theory and the observed activities of public relations practitioners. It then reviews the literature of formal organizations to extend the theory to more complex systems. Next, it operationalizes this expanded theory and reports…