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Download full textHarper, Nancy L. – 1988
A study investigated how managers in various kinds of organizations make decisions and also examined ways that using the Marble Company simulation (developed by L. C. Lederman and L. P. Stewart in 1985) could enhance, clarify, and extend its findings. Managers were asked to write down what they would say to their subordinates in order to elicit…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Data Collection, Decision Making, Employer Employee Relationship
Peer reviewedSchmidtlein, Frank A. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1999
Examines common assumptions about the rationality or irrationality of organizational behavior and finds that decision making occurs in a complex context that successful college/university institutional research offices must recognize and work with. Finds that emerging organizational theories suggest there are limitations on the use of data and…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Decision Making, Higher Education
Perrill, Norman K.; Stopek, Carrie D. – 1981
Employee selection and appraisal criteria were examined in 44 organizations to (1) test a new data gathering instrument, (2) determine the extent to which student interviewers and organizational interviewees had similar perceptions of the importance of the selection and appraisal criteria used in that organization, and (3) continue and expand an…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Data Collection, Decision Making, Evaluation Criteria
Staley, Constance Courtney; Shockley-Zalabak, Pamela – 1987
Research on sex differences in communication has produced mixed and contradictory results. An erroneous overlap exists between self reports of male-female behaviors, others' reports of perceived behaviors, and stereotyped projections based on social conditioning. The solution to this confusion in gender communication research may be triangulation,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection
Toombs, William; Sagaria, Mary Ann – 1978
Data collection and analyses of college records and interviewing provided a cross-sectional view of data flow and information transmission in a small college. The micro-analysis of interview data, forms, and reports yielded a picture of functional relationships, clarified loci of decision making, and stipulated functions served by data items.…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, College Administration, College Planning
Taylor, Beverly Loy – 1978
This guide, one of four, is a product of the Project on Social Architecture in Education, initiated to find out what it takes to develop a program and a working social system for a new school. The project began with interviews with school planners and consultants, then moved to the study of six new innovative public schools for a two-and-a-half…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Conflict Resolution, Consultants
