This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 16 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the delivery of bad news in organizations; (2) the diffusion of judicial innovations; (3) speech action in organizational socialization; (4) differential effects of leader style and group maturity upon subordinate satisfaction, task effectiveness, and task efficiency; (5) the role of vertical communication relationships of traditionally structured, complex organizations; (6) the relationship between superior-subordinate communication and job satisfaction; (7) the emergence of quality as a rhetorical fiction; (8) the information channels used in obtaining corporate image information; (9) the relationship between organizational structure and support for employee communication skill improvement; and (10) questioning in an organization. (FL)