This simulation is designed to help students understand the complexity of organizational life and learn how to navigate a work world of chaos, conflict, and uncertainty. This adaptation and update of an exercise by Cohen, Fink, Gadon, and Willits has been a successful addition to MBA and EMBA courses. The participants must self-organize, choose…

A model of decision making in an organized anarchy, i.e., a very loosely structured organization. Possible application of this computer simulation model illustrated by comparison with university decision making. (RA)

Criticizes the assumption that participation of the less powerful in decisionmaking processes results in a reduction of power differences between the more powerful and the less powerful. (Author)

This Bulletin gives an overview, through questions and answers, of team management from the standpoint of the superintendent, the principal, and industry. Team management is "ideal" to the extent that it operates democratically, and "practical" in that it normally finds a more sound solution than if one person, alone, came up with a solution. The…

A checklist is presented to facilitate school faculty and administration decision making when contemplating the establishment of a school-wide media center. (JY)

This paper introduces the concept of a behavioral externality and relates it to the decisionmaking process in decentralized organizations. (Author)

A test, through simulation techniques, of the hypothesis that the approach to organizational control is dependent on the degree of subunit interdependence. (Author)

This document brings together the fruits of the work that the Trenton, New Jersey school district did between 1970-73 to create a new system for administering innovation and assuming responsibility for the spending of millions of dollars in Federal grants. It contains material relevant to a school district looking to implement a project management…

It is claimed that, properly organized, management information systems not only can contain all the data within a total organization, but can refine and arrange the information so that it becomes meaningful to the decisionmaker. At present their functions are virtually restricted to middle management, operational control levels. However, the rapid…

Looks at how restructuring an organization affects the people in it and what this means to practicing administrators. (Editor)

Develops a model of the relationship between mass-output orientation of manufacturing technology and three organizational variables -- verticle integration, decentralization in top decisionmaking, and the use of sophisticated controls. (Author)

Decentralization, for the purpose of this study, is defined and variations in control patterns actually found in eleven nationally known university organizations are presented. Sections of the research instrument used to collect the data are included. (Author/CK)

Progress in realizing the full potential of computerized data processing is being hindered by costs and by the spread of a multitude of small, independent computer facilities. There is a need for some uniformity of specifications among the various systems. The result would be a compatibility that could help to reduce costs more rapidly because of…

The results of a comparative study of 30 manufacturing firms in India indicated that the most effective organizations tended to choose a unidimensional strategy of administrative control. This strategy consisted of the use of formalized procedures to control decentralized decision-making with respect to both human and material resources. (Author)

Examines the role of leadership as it is viewed by others in the organization; the relationship of humanistic management to the leader's health and home life and, consequently, to his or her job performance; and the influence of changing economic conditions on the expectations of management and resulting leadership style. (Author/IRT)