Reveals that the degree of centralization and power varies in different types of organizations as defined by the Hage-Hull typology. (FL)

Concludes that managing editors depend primarily upon face-to-face communication to reach newsroom employees. (FL)

Summarizes findings from two studies: 93 professors of educational administration ranked citizen involvement and school district information programs high as public relations strategies and an analysis of both mail and telephone surveys conducted concurrently affirmed the advantages of the telephone survey. (MLF)

Found significant differences in the communication behavior of public relations professionals within the following organizational variables: profit vs. nonprofit, counseling vs. noncounseling, wide vs. narrow spans of control, and upper vs. lower management levels. Provides an approach for understanding communication activity of public relations…

Describes briefly the state-of-the-art in organizational communication and suggests preliminary guidelines for evaluating the diverse efforts in this area. (PD)

Proposes a schema for categorizing interpretive research in organizational communication by analyzing four interpretive texts on organizational life: Terkel's "Working," Kanter's "Men and Women of the Corporation," Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine," and Heller's "Something Happened." (PD)

Describes a two-week corporate public relations simulation that allowed students, acting as media representatives, to experience the frustrations of dealing with a typical company during a crisis. (HOD)

A plan is presented for introducing instructional innovations in school districts through inservice education. (GW)

Virtual teaming has come to stay in the fast developing world of communication as it brings more value to customers, saves costs, accelerates competence, and leverages organizational learning. Therefore, students need to be educated about this new type of team and the tools that are available to facilitate communication and to enhance…

This article describes how new communication technologies and channels of communication are impacting historically basic channels of communication. This impact is described as being an incremental and evolutionary process rather than a blunt transition. A main theme stressed is that historically basic channels of communication, strongly grounded…

In the book, "Talking from 9 to 5," Deborah Tannen suggests that females have difficulty listening to males in the workplace because of the masculine inclination to talk sports the majority of the time. Men use sports idioms, metaphors, and cliches, making business a "peculiar language" which excludes "naive"…

The term "venting" has been used interchangeably with negatively-connotated words like "outburst,""bitching,""complaining," and with more functional words like "disclosing." A literature review of venting showed that researchers have approached the term from multiple perspectives. Because of the…

This examination of the social order of the Church of Christ, Scientist, provides a valuable learning opportunity for leaders of any organizational entity--or for any student of organizational communication/behavior. The study addresses labor, trust, power, and legitimization of activity within the church. It raises the issue of whether Christian…

Organizational cynicism, a recent entry into the study of organizational communication, explains the causes and consequences of employees' lack of trust in their organizations. Organizational cynicism exists on three levels: the cognitive belief in the organization's lack of integrity, the feeling of negative emotions toward that organization, and…

This book examines "baseline" communications in schools and school systems. Baseline communication is defined as schools' ongoing efforts to meet the information needs of parents and the community at large, to strengthen the partnerships of parents and schools, to promote school activities and events, to explain school programs and school's…