This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 14 titles deal with the following topics: written communication flow between administrators and faculty at a community college; an analysis of the perceptions of legislators and university administrators on selected issues; communication systems and task rational perceptions in operating organizations; the effects of department size on faculty perceptions of communication effectiveness and participation in decision making; message-response in superior-subordinate communication; the relationship between organizational communication and worker performance; factors perceived to facilitate communication between superintendents and assistant superintendents; the effect of word processing on business letter writing; a rules-based approach to communication within a formal organization; organizational effectiveness in biomedical communications systems; the relationships between information potential and biographical characteristics, channel and source usage, innovativeness, and performance for faculty members at selected two-year colleges; the role played by the American Medical Association from 1920 to 1965 in shaping public opinion concerning compulsory national health insurance; the intercultural communications network; and oral and written business communication problems of selected managerial trainees. (FL)