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 communication training needs of managers in large businesses; (2) sociolinguistic signals of role in university office-hour interactions; (3) the determinants of participation in intraorganizational and interorganizational communication networks; (4) organizational communication in elementary schools; (5) barriers to effective communication as perceived by faculty and chairpersons in private undergraduate educational institutions; (6) communication adequacy in the changing organization; (7) communicative correlates of sex role identity and leadership style toward the development of a managerial self-concept; (8) communication satisfaction in private, church related schools; (9) staff peceptions of communications in selected Colorado school districts; (10) communication and the superintendency; (11) perceptions of organizational communication and power among female and male administrators; and (12) the relationship between satisfaction with a school communication system and teachers' work motivation. (FL)