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Cyclical Renewal in a Large City School District -- Decentralization and the Policy Process
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Bresnick, David – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1974
Decentralization and recentralization are continuing phenomena in large bureaucracies, each cyclically emerging to prominence. The current decentralization strategy for large city school systems can only be successful in conjunction with continuing (though altered) centralized functions. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Centralization, Decentralization
Bureaucratic Structure in Schools: A Refinement and Synthesis in Measurement.
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Sousa, David A.; Hoy, Wayne K. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1981
Compares two methods of measuring bureaucratic structure, Hall's organizational inventory and the University of Aston (England) approach, and tests them using data from 55 public high schools in New Jersey. Factor analysis reveals four underlying dimensions of school structure, including organizational control, rational specialization, system…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Centralization, Factor Analysis
Subordinate Loyalty to Superior, Espirit, and Aspects of Bureaucratic Structure
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Hoy, Wayne K.; And Others – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1977
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)
Descriptors: Centralization, Decision Making, Multiple Regression Analysis, Organization
Success through Inattention in School Administration and Elsewhere.
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Lindblom, Charles E. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1994
Examines two ways of achieving social coordination: unilateral/hierarchical controls and multilateral controls. Discusses advantages of using mutual adjustment as an alternative to central coordination. Mutual adjustment occurs variously through language creation, moral codes, biological self-selection, market systems, and politics. Although…
Descriptors: Centralization, Decentralization, Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education
Two Images of Schools as Organizations: An Explication and Illustrative Empirical Test.
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Firestone, William A.; Herriott, Robert E. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1982
Two competing images present schools as either rational bureaucracies or loosely coupled systems. Teachers in 13 Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) schools were surveyed on two dimensions distinguishing these images: goal consensus and influence centralization. The results suggest that high schools fit the loosely coupled image and elementary schools the…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Centralization, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Two Images of Schools as Organizations: A Refinement and Elaboration.
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Herriott, Robert E.; Firestone, William A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1984
The finding reported previously in this journal (EJ 265 763), that elementary schools conform more to the image of the rational bureaucracy while secondary schools fit that of the anarchy or loosely coupled system, is reinforced and extended using a large sample, more reliable measures, and more elaborate techniques. (Author)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Centralization, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Impediments and Imperatives in Restructuring Higher Education.
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Benjamin, Roger; Carroll, Stephen J. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1996
The basic assumptions built into the governance of higher education obstruct effective responses to problems influencing its decline. University leaders'"donnish" convictions about universality and professionalism hinder their ability to apportion scarce resources among competing missions and academic programs. A more centralized…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Centralization, Financial Problems, Governance