This paper examines the International Communication Association (ICA) audit, the aim of which is to establish an integrated communication audit system and a multimethod approach to the auditing of the communication of an organization. Many of an organization's communication variables and concepts are examined so that strengths and weaknesses in…

The Canadian Department of Communications project on teleconferencing commenced in 1972, to meet what was foreseen to be a developing federal-government need to provide improved group communications between headquarters and outlying divisions. Section one of this report presents background justification for investigating teleconferencing as a…

The relationship between organizational theory and the development of the human curriculum needs further assessment. The author suggests that Management by Objectives (MBO) can further the goals of human curriculum by altering the modes of organizational communication. (Author/DS)

Examines the stance of the corporation as advocate and communicator of information of concern to its employees and publics and presents guidelines for organizations that are considering implementing advocacy communications. (MH)

Discusses the destructive aspects of reorganization that must take place if change is to be successful. The 1970-71 reorganization of the U.S. Post Office Department is used as a model. (Author)

States that a fundamental change is taking place in the concept of the market system from one of private interests to one of public interests, and discusses the approach that companies may take in developing their marketing plans within the framework of the public market system. (MB)

Discusses effective management techniques and stresses the importance of practicing positive employee relations. Suggestions for management effectiveness include trusting employees, maintaining flexibility, being accessible to employees, having a written problem-solving policy, and giving employees equal opportunity for advancement. (BH)

Uses value analysis to examine the rhetoric of a large multinational high-technology organization, focusing on the value-oriented arguments that emerge from the rhetorical strategies utilized in the organization's recruitment and entry level practices. Notes the recurrent rhetorical strategy of stating only the organization's positive values. (MM)

Explores the dimensions of expectancy theory in human communicative behavior. Examines human expectancies from a communicative perspective. Proposes an expectancy model of human symbolic activity centering on communicative expectancies within supervisor and subordinate relationships. (SR)

Investigates differences between networks, based on importance, response satisfaction, and frequency within the same functional communication network. Finds few differences in networks generated by these different methods for determining strengths of linkages, and a number of difficulties associated with current methodologies for examining more…

Notes that the issue of leadership and management has become a hot topic for school principals and administrators with books, magazines, and articles urging participatory corporate management techniques. Suggests newer management styles developed in the private sector offer some valuable approaches. (NH)

Discusses how (1) the "private relations" that existed between U.S. Steel and the government between 1930 and 1960 ended in steel crisis of 1962 and (2) this policy was viewed as inadequate by both an angry public and the Kennedy Administration when the steel industry tried to match foreign competition on quality and prices by raising…

Organized action need not depend on group consensus. Karl Weick's theory argues that only minimal shared understanding is needed and that common ends and shared meanings may be outcomes of organized action, not prerequisites. This paper reveals four communication mechanisms that generate and sustain equifinal meaning (multiple routes to a single…

Explains how the Communications Design Center of Carnegie-Mellon University assisted the Allen-Bradley Company in simplifying the company's manual-writing process and developing a handbook for the manual writers. (DF)

Reviews six corporate histories more as documents of organizational culture than as objective histories to ascertain their value in organizational communication studies. (PD)