This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The nine titles deal with the following topics: (1) small group interaction within effective and ineffective decision making groups; (2) vertical communication as perceived by administrators and teachers; (3) communication roles as predictors of job satisfaction and management preference; (4) organizational structure based on communication patterns; (5) organizational communication in university-based adult education in Ghana; (6) the motivational effect of interpersonal communication in the employee performance evaluation; (7) communication in organizational departments during periods of rapid change; (8) the relationship among work values, communicational climate, and job satisfaction; and (9) perceptual differences in receiving information and organizational communication relationship scale factors. (RL)