This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 11 titles deal with the following topics: (1) transnational communication knowledge transfer and utilization, especially between the United States and Asian countries; (2) police personnel evaluation procedures as an aspect of organizational control; (3) caregivers' speaking modifications to developmentally delayed infants; (4) leadership effectiveness of theatre administrators and organizational effectiveness of nonprofit professional theatre organizations in the San Francisco Bay area; (5) supervisor accessibility and role clarity; (6) the effect of participative decision making on supervisory and subordinate communication behavior; (7) superior-subordinate perceptual incongruence and organizational communication; (8) student and faculty perceptions of business communications needs; (9) rhetorical sensitivity, sex of interactants, and superior-subordinate communication; (10) sex differences as indicators of preferred conflict styles of managers in work settings; and (11) oral and written linguistic indices of deception during employment interviews. (RL)