This research examines the following hypotheses: (1) that members of organizations with low power have one of four ways of balancing power as a preferred power-balancing style, (2) that such styles have biographical correlates, and (3) that certain styles will be overrepresented in organizations. (Author)

Examines the utilization of staff conferences within the large industrial organization and finds that for the 680 supervisors and managers surveyed, hierarchy of authority is strongly related to staff conference utilization; while contingency exposure is found to be only weakly related to holding staff conferences. (Author/JH)

Problems of academic governance are best handled function by function. (DB)

Criticizes the assumption that participation of the less powerful in decisionmaking processes results in a reduction of power differences between the more powerful and the less powerful. (Author)

Data indicate that controllers do not have the same authority in all their functions nor in the various decisions within those functions. (Author)

Muses on the power and intelligence of Henry Giroux as a composition theorist and pedagogue. Recounts Giroux's presentation at the 1993 Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition and his categorizing of the "power dynamics" present at most institutions. Opts for "expressivist" pedagogy. (PA)

Examines why language planners in the Philippines argue the way they do concerning critical language issues in the country. Suggests discursive "strategies of forgetting" are employed across complex structures of relations shaped by decades of colonialization, Filipino elite collaboration, and current neocolonial and global conditions.…

The case of the American Bar Association's Commission on Professionalism illustrates that issues of regulation and professionalism have broad impact on practitioners. In associations with diverse memberships, such issues become highly political and limit decision making. (SK)

The author of "Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought" reflects on the challenges that currently affect the construct's usefulness: the changing meanings of the term "outsider within" and how the changing meanings work with current marketplace ideologies. (JOW)

Discussion of the relevance of Michel Foucault's ideas in the provision of services to people with mental retardation focuses on the postmodernist thinker's own life including his preoccupation with "limit experiences," transgression against all societal norms, suicide, and death from AIDS. It suggests that the application of discourse…

Conceptualizes the learning organization as a metaphor, given the centrality of narrative in human endeavors. Reinterprets the learning organization using narrative theory and social theory. (Contains 52 references.) (SK)