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Describes the history of a multi-instrument approach for auditing the communication behavior of organizations. Notes that with the advent of the Internet, limitations of survey research have virtually been eliminated. Outlines four necessary steps involved in a Web-based communication survey. (PM)

A survey of the standard of awareness among parents of high-school players regarding the risk of acute brain injury revealed that parents were not aware of the risks involved in playing high-school football. Subjects did not know much about the football helmet warning risk. Parents seemed more concerned about knee injuries, sprains and shoulder injuries than brain injuries.

Reports on a study examining how communication modality--audiovisual versus written--affects individuals' judgments of others' truthfulness or deceptiveness. (SR)

Three case studies of university communication audits are presented to illustrate recommendations and changes implemented in institutional communication as a result of the audit. (JMF)

The ICA Communication Audit is described in detail as an effective measurement procedure that can help an academic institution to evaluate its internal communication system. Tools, computer programs, analysis, and feedback procedures are described and illustrated. (JMF)

Presents research in the areas of information flow and perceptual/attitudinal variables which has been conducted over the past 30 years of organizational communication research. (JMF)

References and associations that can give further assistance to academic institutions interested in assessing and improving their communication systems are provided. (JMF)

Guidelines are offered to a college or university for conducting a communication audit. These include steps in planning the audit, use of the variety of tools available for administering the audit, the development and feedback to the institution, and development of recommendations to improve institutional communication. (JMF)

Several reviews of organizational communication theory have been published recently in the Communication Yearbook and elsewhere (Richetto, 1977; Dennis. Goldhaber, & Yates, 1978; Redding, 1979; Jablin, I980). They give a detailed summary of North American research results and theory building. However, very little other than American research is discussed. Relevant research has also been done in the field in Europe for quite a long time. It would seem fruitful to try combining these results with the American research tradition to attempt at least some degree of synthesis in this unusually diversified branch of communication research. Organizational communication overviews have so far been very cautious in their interpretation of research results and with good reason. The reviewers very correctly point out that there is little integration in the various theoretical and methodological approaches. In the following we discuss some organizational communication research findings in different countries using the general frame of reference of the contingency approach. We shall mainly concentrate on our own research findings based on organizational climate studies using three different communication audit systems. Reference is made to other relevant research whenever possible and when known to us. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the representative research methods and procedures that were used in the study of communication phenomena within complex organizations. It describes ways by which organizational communication research was accomplished, along with an analysis of research on organizational communication. A comparison between laboratory and field settings for communication research, and descriptive and predictive research designs, is presented. The article also describes the relevance of time factor recognition to communication theory and research.

Focuses on the nature of organizational communication. Method by which communication is managed in organizations; Various approaches concerning organizational communication; Major communication networks in the organizational communication system.

The purpose of this study was to explore the hypothesis that the French and English Canadians, due to their unique cultural backgrounds, differ in their perceptions of and satisfaction with the nature of the organizational communication system under which they operate. The study was conducted in a large community general hospital. A total of 977 or 65.9 percent of the employees (of the 1,483 employees asked to complete the questionnaire) responded. The study revealed that Anglophcne employees consistently showed lower levels of satisfaction then the Francophone employees with the various aspects of the communication system that were investigated in this study. It was suggested that consistency of response to communications perhaps stems from the differing cultural values of the two groups of employees. Implications of these results were discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the concept of compressed speech with variation in difficulty, rate of presentation and sex of the listener. Study conducted to determine the relationship between difficulty, rate of presentation and sex of the listener while listening to speeded speech; Test score means for four rates of presentation to males and females at all levels of difficulty; Details of the effect of sex on listeners' comprehension.

Focuses on the effects of videotape on attendance and attitude in the fundamentals of speech communication. Feasibility of using videotape in communication classes; Hypotheses regarding classes which do assignments on videotape will have better attendance than classes which do no assignments on videotape; Demographic profile of the students.

Focuses on the development of the PAUSAL Program, a computer program used in detecting and measuring pauses in speech. Presentation of the PAUSAL Program for digital computer; Procedure in utilizing the PAUSAL Program.

This article discusses the concept of an organizational department. According to the article, a department is composed of a number of subsystems (subgroups, cliques, committees), all of which are interdependent and interrelated. Further, a department has a multiplicity of purposes, functions, and objectives, some of which are in conflict.