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MacDonald, Donald – 1971
A study of organizational communication identified two structure roles--liaison and nonliaison--in each of three content-functional areas of organization communication--getting a job done, exploring new behavioral alternatives, and keeping the system functioning--and hypothesized that "liaisons" would perceive themselves in similar ways. Each…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Diffusion, Group Structure, Industry
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MacDonald, Donald – Human Communication Research, 1976
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Group Dynamics, Group Structure
MacDonald, Donald; Farace, Richard V. – 1971
For knowledge of organizational communication to increase, new concepts must be developed and correlative or even causal relationships between communication concepts and other organizational variables must be established. Here, meanings of "organization,""information,""communication," and "other organizational variables" are explicated, and three…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation, Group Structure