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Download full textDuttweiler, Patricia Cloud – Insights on Educational Policy and Practice, 1988
Numerous dysfunctions result from bureaucratic school organization, including an overemphasis on specialized tasks, routine operating rules, and formal procedures for managing teaching and learning. Such schools are characterized by numerous regulations; formal communications; centralized decision making; and sharp distinctions among…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Bureaucracy, Centralization, Creativity
Berman, Paul; McLaughlin, Milbrey Wallin – 1979
This research aimed to identify the school district characteristics that seem to explain the way districts adapt to pressures for change. The author hypothesized that all school districts can be characterized by one of three states: maintenance (they change practices and technologies but are stable in beliefs and structures that truly affect…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Case Studies, Credibility, Decision Making
Anderson, Mark E. – OSSC Bulletin, 1988
Team management became popular during the late 1960s and early 1970s as educators adopted the concept to help solve the increasingly complex problems facing schools. The mere existence of a management team of central office and building administrators does not mean that team management is being practiced. Chapter 1 enumerates the benefits of team…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Management Teams
Young, David A. – Administrator's Update, 1979
This paper outlines the possibilities for scientific inquiry into the design of the university organization structure. In a theoretical context, bureaucratic management techniques were not refined enough to apply to university structures until the mid-twentieth century. Universities today are bureaucracies in that they have a formal division of…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Change Strategies, College Administration
Macpherson, R. J. S. – 1986
This paper reviews some key ideas that have emerged from recent research into administrative practices in education and their relationship to organizational culture. "Culture" is defined as a system of knowledge and conceptions that members of an organization use for giving meaning to and coping with problems that they experience. The…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Culture, Educational Administration
PDF pending restorationRidge, John William – 1978
Suggested are concepts and ideas for organizing for institutional research so that it might become a legitimate and separate entity within higher education administration. The following three-way categorization of institutional research is advocated: institutional studies; management analyses; and periodic management reporting. The role of the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, College Administration, Educational Research
