This account describes the total reengineering of an organization with the attendant changes to the culture, the nature of the work, the rethinking of the organizational purpose, and the identification of a new customer base and new concepts of how the organization will reach it. The case is presented not as scientific research but as a case of…

The basic strategy of this paper is to develop a general model for social system communication relations. It first describes the nature of domination and control and then goes on to propose rules as to how control systems deal with what is called communication stress. (Author/AM)

IN RESPONSE TO A NEED FOR A MORE THOROUGH AND RIGOROUS STUDY AND ANALYSIS PROCESS IN ENVIRONMENTAL FUNCTIONS PRIOR TO THE DESIGN OF NEW BUILDINGS, A STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO IDENTIFY THE EMERGING TECHNIQUES OF ARCHITECTURAL PROGRAMING PRACTICE. THE STUDY INCLUDED CORRESPONDENCE AND REVIEW OF PERIODICALS, QUESTIONNAIRES AND VISITATIONS, AND A…

The two words, "communication"--defined as the sharing of experience--and "process"--referred to as the movement of interrelated events or actions toward an identifiable goal--may be usefully viewed together as the goal-oriented combination of variables designed to produce at least a single communicative event. In an organizational setting, the…

The state of information about research in communications is presently in chaos, and only careful systems analysis and publication of clearinghouse-type information can cure the jumble of project topics now under study in the field. The whole system of communications research requires meticulous monitoring, managing, continuous updating with…

Employees in different kinds of organizations were surveyed for their perceptions of their companies' client and operational problem-solving networks. The individuals came from a manufacturing firm, a community college, a telephone company, a farmers' cooperative, and a hospital. Interviews were conducted with those people reporting numerous…

A method for modeling the structure of large social systems has been developed which is based on the interpersonal communication networks present in the functioning system. Recent developments in techniques and computer software have made possible the analysis of networks of several thousand persons. The new technique provides a method for…

A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR, WHICH FOCUSED ON RELATING VARIOUS SOCIAL SCIENCES TO THE ISSUES OF POVERTY, INCLUDED PAPERS ON SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF POVERTY, POLITICAL PARTICIPATION BY THE POOR, MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT NEEDS, GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS IN POVERTY, URBAN PLANNING, POLICE SERVICES, APPLICATIONS OF ANTHROPOLOGY, PROBLEMS IN SOCIAL WORK…

In man-computer communication, the computer responds only as it is programed to respond. A human's response is more complicated because it depends on the "pre-programed" ways that humans process information. The three functions a man performs on received information are conservation (in which messages are retained whole), reduction (in which…

The effectiveness of an organizations's adaptive behavior depends on the extent to which public relations concerns are considered in goal setting and program planning. The following five open systems propositions, based on a "functional" paradigm, address the complex relationship between public relations and organizational intelligence and do not…