This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 dissertations abstracted deal with the following topics: (1) female managers' approaches to organizational conflict; (2) relationships between organizational climate and pupil control ideology; (3) information communication problems of small businesses; (4) communication and productivity; (5) the relationship of principal's verbal behavior to teachers' perception of communication and organizational climate in middle level schools; (6) communication, gender, leadership, and commitment in the organization; (7) teachers' perceptions of organizational climate of elementary schools administered by black prinicpals and white principals; (8) the influence of communication network centrality and information capacity on organizational performance; (9) Americans' perceptions of the communication styles of Japanese managers and the reality; (10) two-way communication as a function of the company newspaper; (11) a grounded theory approach to communication and conflict in voluntary organizations; (12) environmental perception and strategy selection in interorganizational communication; (13) administrators' communication networks in a public school district; (14) communication of organizational climate during job screening interviews; and (15) communication satisfaction, communicator style, and perceived organizational effectiveness in an educational setting. (HTH)