This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the perceived effectiveness of written communication from central office administrators to building level administrators in a metropolitan school district, (2) upward communication in industrial organizations, (3) identification and evaluation of concepts pertinent to the basic business communication course at the collegiate level, (4) the relationship between attitude and information in school district populations, (5) organizational communication structures, (6) communication patterns and attitudes among Jordan's legislative elites, (7) the effectiveness of the inductive and the deductive organizational plans in a special request letter, (8) human communication and Weick's model of organizing, (9) the constitutive processes of memory in organizational communication, (10) perceptions of power among persons varying in organizational position, (11) the ethnography of a whistle blowing incident, and (12) office conversation as an information medium. (FL)