Leonard C. Hawes

Elements of a model for communication processes

The model outlined argues that behaviors and meanings need not be studied separately. To explore the relationship between meanings and behaviors, communication is defined as patterned space‐time behavior with symbolic referents. A formal model for communication processes that explicates this definition is developed. These postulates are derived from some of the propositions of modern systems theory.

Social collectivities as communication: Perspective on organizational behavior

COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONS: A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE. By J. Eugene Haas and Thomas E. Drabek. New York: The Mac‐millan Company, 1973; pp. v+416.

A Markov analysis of interview communication

10.95. ORGANIZATIONS, STRUCTURE AND PROCESS. By Richard H. Hall. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1972; pp. xi+354.

A critique of assumptions underlying the study of communication in conflict

9.95. THE CREATION OF SETTINGS AND THE FUTURE SOCIETIES. By Seymour B. Sarason. San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass Inc., 1972; pp. ix+295.

Development and application of an interview coding system

10.50. THE LIMITS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE. By Herbert Kaufman. University: The University of Alabama Press, 1971; pp. 124.

The effects of interviewer style on patterns of dyadic communication

5.75. MODERN ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY. By Anant R. Negandhi. Edited Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1973; pp. 404.

Alternative theoretical bases: Toward a presuppositional critique

10.00. ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS: A TEXT READER IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS. By Koya Azumi and Jerald Hage. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath and Company, 1972; pp. v+582.

An interact system model: Generating a grounded theory of small groups

10 95. ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION. By Gerald M. Goldhaber. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Company, Publishers, 1974; pp. v+391.

How writing is used in talk: A study of communicative logic‐in‐use

6.95.

Colloquy: II. A response to Grossberg and O'keefe: Building a human science of communication

This study focused on patterns of verbal behavior embedded in the interview process rather than on externalfactors as predictors of outcome. A Markov model was used to map the relationships between interviewer styles, time, and patterns of communication. Each interview was conceptualized as a system, and the categories of verbal behavior were treated as the finite number of states the system could ocupy. Thirteen‐state and three‐state models of the interview systems were constructed which displayed both state probabilities and transition probabilities of the systems states. The basic finding was that although each interview system had different probability structures, the structure of any one system was quite stable over time.