Community Communications Group (COMCOM) is an organization formed to promote understanding and ensure access to communication between groups and individuals in local communities. Recent emphasis has been on libraries as the centers of information exchange regarding local affairs, organizations, and activities. (Author/JAB)

The study empirically examined the value of interorganizational relations to voluntary associations; the data are from questionnaires sent to rape crisis centers in the United States. Interorganizational cooperation was studied in its relationship to structural variations and organizational effectiveness. No relationship was found between…

Reports study results identifying specific communication skills being used by college graduates who have been in a business organization five years or less. (MH)

Describes various exercises that can be used in teaching organizational communication concepts using an experiential approach. (MH)

Examines the impact of direction and occupation on the importance of communication skills for entry-level positions in finance, management, engineering, and law. Results substantiate a three-dimensional model (based on direction, occupation, and position) for the examination and application of communication skill importance in organization. (JD)

To benefit fully from the consultants and guest lecturers hired to conduct inservice training for teachers, the McDowell County schools (North Carolina) cultivate a "red carpet" treatment policy for such visitors. Success depends on good two-way communication, efficient hospitality arrangements, administrative presence at workshops, and an…

Examines how police officers socially construct a sense of organizational drama when they label, valorize, and narrate their work experience. Demonstrates the importance of dramaturgical approaches to the study of organizational communication. (MS)

Discusses research that examined how five principals managed communications in their schools. Findings indicated that dyadic interpersonal contacts dominate principals' communications activities and serve to maintain messages about school organization. Principals prefer accomplishing communications through talk and include openness and high…

Administrators can avoid legal and personnel problems by ensuring that staff members, students, and parents clearly understand school board policies and procedures. Five steps are essential: adoption of official policy, policy dissemination, policy interpretation, development of handbooks, and action to ensure thorough communication with affected…

Explores the institutionalization of a fairly new Bureau of Consumer Services within the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. Using documentation and participant observation, this paper analyzes the Bureau's manipulation of symbols and the developing ceremonies of exchange that ensured the Bureau's growth and survival in an interorganizational…

Offers a perspective on how storyboarding fits as an organizational method of communication and focuses upon aspects of storyboarding that aid organizational communication connected with collaborative proposals, presentations, or publications. (EL)

Presents a list of suggestions for using the telephone that intend to make the most of opportunities to strengthen the bond between the school and the community. (EL)

Dick Curland, principal of Valley View Elementary School in Portland, Connecticut, enhances his effectiveness by maintaining high visibility, communicating clearly and frequently with others, supporting his staff, and developing positive personal contact with individual students. (PGD)

A parent advisory committee at Oneida Senior High School (New York) meets to discuss school programs and activities. The result is a solid support group to address problems that arise. (MLF)

Sophisticated managers know that reams of data cannot take the place of important information. Planning is necessary to ensure that what is being reported in an organization is necessary and useful and that data are not assembled just because the computer makes it possible. (MLF)