This study explored the relationships between organizational structure and organizational climate on two levels -- the whole organization and the groups within it. (Author)

Organizational patterns can be examined from two major perspectives. The formal structure of an organization consists of those relationships among the organizational components that are the result of deliberate planning. This formal structure tends to be static and is the primary focus of management theory. The informal structure of an…

The entire November issue is a special edition devoted to the 1972-1973 American Library Association Handbook of Organization. (SJ)

A past president of the New York State Personnel and Guidance Association calls on APGA to increase greatly its efforts to develop active working relationships among the national, state, and local units in order to involve members more frequently and directly, to provide more services to members, and to influence public policy. (Author)

The assumption that an organization structure takes on the shape of a pyramid was tested using an index of organization shape. (Author/LR)

Describes a series of strategies that enabled a nationwide government program, the Teacher Corps, to survive, despite formidable external and internal constraints, and suggests some general patterns that may apply to other cases. Comments by Richard A. Graham and Roland L. Warren. (Author)

A model for explaining structural variations between work units within the complex organization is presented. Based upon an analysis of the impact of task difficulty and task variability on intraorganizational structure, a taxonomy of alternative work-unit structures is derived. The taxonomy suggests that work units within a complex organization…

A study of thirty academic departments in fifteen universities examined the relationships of the functional prerequisites to personal need satisfactions. The findings raised questions about the relationship between organizational achievement and personal satisfaction in the academic department. (Author/JB)

A discussion of how learning hierarchies were constructed by high and low ability students as they learned matrix algebra. (Author)

THE MAJOR PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE THE ATTITUDES OF STATUS-ROLE GROUPS ON THE ACTUAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONALITY OF THEIR PRESENT ORGANIZATION AND THEIR PERCEPTIONS OF EXPECTATIONS AND NEEDS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE. IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT THE FOUR STATUS-ROLE GROUPS OF THE TAIWAN EXTENSION ORGANIZATION WOULD NOT HOLD…

A stable, ordered dominance hierarchy was found via observational and sociometric methods for a group of 13-year-old boys during a five-week summer camp. This group structure was formed early in camp and was stable across settings, time, and types of dominance interactions. The hierarchy correlated significantly with the rank-orderings bed…

Authority-task problems are organizational problems created by inconsistencies between the task process system and both the authority system and the formal hierarchy of offices. A new theory is used to develop a model that predicts how an administrator responds to an authority-task problem. (Author/IRT)

This monograph, one of a series initiated by the North Dakota Study Group on Evaluation, describes the background and workings of a set of seminars in which experienced teachers from different schools meet regularly to study children's thinking. Anecdotal accounts from seminar discussions are utilized extensively throughout. Chapter I examines the…

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is a method of examing communication in an organization by focusing on: (1) the complex interrelationships in human systems, particularly in communication systems; (2) interactions across subsystems and system boundaries; and (3) the need to select and "prioritize" channels which will eliminate noise in the…

Reports the relationship between the teachers' participation in organizational decision-making and the perceived influence attributed to their administrative superiors, the principal and the superintendent. (Author)