Purpose: As state and federal accountability systems have increased demands for evidence of student achievement, the use of data to inform practice has become more prevalent. More research is needed to understand not only "what" organizational factors shape data-use efforts but also "how" these factors enable or constrain…

Previous qualitative studies show that when the formal organization of a school and patterns of informal interaction are aligned, faculty and leaders in a school are better able to coordinate instructional change. This article combines social network analysis with interview data to analyze how well the formal and informal aspects of a school's…

Explores the implication for human service organizations when concepts drawn from organization technology, control theory, and human system design are integrated in computer simulation models that can test alternative management decisions, policies, and organization structures prior to implementation. (Author/IRT)

Discloses the critical need for research into the effects of educational governance structures on decision-making quality. Notes the recent shift to a more decentralized quasi-market orientation consistent with other trends associated with the information age. Presents a framework for allocating decision-making authority in three countries.…

Investigates the way individuals seek to resolve role conflict (the resolution-oriented decisions they make), the reasons they ascribe to specific role conflict resolution decisions, and why these reasons differ depending on the role actors, organizational level, and specific nature of the conflict issue. (Author/IRT)

Examines the relationship between two dimensions of organization--centralization and formalization--and two aspects of employee orientation--subordinate loyalty and esprit. Multiple regression analyses revealed that the relationships were somewhat more complicated than originally hypothesized. (Author)

Examines some of the organizational dysfunctions that can result from an overdependence on the "rational-economic" decision-making approach. (Author)

Management information systems fail because they are based on the assumption that more facts are needed and they overtax computer systems. The alternative proposed here is much smaller (in data banks and dollars) than conventional systems and is designed to aid decision making rather than to build banks of facts. (Author/IRT)

Dissatisfaction with several of the job and organizational context characteristics (especially with the campus administration) was a significant predictor of militancy, but demographic characteristics (sex, academic rank, tenure status, academic department, faculty organization membership) had almost no predictive value. (Author)

Explores what happened within the Washington, D.C., school system as a result of the judicial decrees in Hobson V. Hansen and why the school system responded the way it dis. Focuses on the internal political and organizational responses to the decrees. (Author/IRT)

The impact of decentralization and devolution and its implications for principals in the state of Victoria (Australia) were investigated. Interview data documenting implementation problems and the effects of these reforms on the influence of principals and the future of the principalship in Victoria are presented. (MD)