This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 13 titles deal with the following topics: (1) speaker turns between staff and foreign clients at an employment agency; (2) the communication of norms in an effective organization; (3) industrial strategies and the communication/information sector in Canada; (4) the characteristics of effective written business communication; (5) ideology and power in organizations; (6) communication structure, network roles, and interpersonal orientations of staff members in a middle school setting; (7) the changing image of the Chrysler Corporation in l979-80; (8) a communication based model for interpreting organizational culture; (9) downward, task-relevant, confidential information disclosure between superiors and subordinates; (10) instructional and support staffs' perceptions of internal communication in a suburban school district; (11) identification in the United States Forest Service; (12) a model of continuous evaluation and feedback in the classroom; and (13) the effect of introducing remedial English usage instruction in collegiate business communication. (FL)