This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 16 titles deal with the following topics: (1) women proteges' perceptions of the mentoring process; (2) the relationship between opportunity for upward communication and facets of job satisfaction; (3) the organizational construction of intrinsic motivation within a public sector bureaucracy; (4) professionals' responses to selected errors of usage and items of disputed usage in formal written English; (5) the influence of cultural differences on personal values as determinants in the preference for managerial styles in an organizational setting; (6) communication strategies in Japanese-American negotiations; (7) the role of the attributional model of motivation in organizations; (8) organizational management theories; (9) communication, coordination, and conflict in work organizations; (10) organizational incongruity; (11) effective entry-level organizational communication as assessed through a survey of personnel recruiters; (12) the relationship between the principal's instructional leadership and the school's organizational system; (13) communicating via electronic mail; (14) loose coupling within a complex public agency; (15) the relationship of bureaucratic structure to the communication satisfaction of teachers; and (16) organizational communication processes and job stress. (FL)