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Goodwin, John R.; O'Reilly, Robert R. – 1979
Interviews were conducted with the presidents and senior administrators of 20 Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology located in the province of Ontario (Canada) to assess the relationship between organizational size and organizational structure. It was found that a relationship existed between the size variable and certain structural dimensions.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Centralization, Community Colleges, Horizontal Organization
PALOLI, ERNEST G. – 1967
AN INVESTIGATION WAS MADE ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONTRASTING ORGANIZATIONAL TYPES CREATED IN THE LABORATORY SETTING AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF THREE TYPES OF ROLE STRAINS--ROLE UNCERTAINTY, ROLE DISPARITY, AND ROLE INCOMPATIBILITY. THE TWO ORGANIZATION TYPES STUDIED DIFFERED IN DEGREE OF SPECIALIZATION, EMPHASIS ON RULES AND REGULATIONS, AMOUNT…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Horizontal Organization, Organization, Organizational Climate
Clott, Christopher; Fjortoft, Nancy – 1998
This study examined the independent and conditional effects of organizational culture type and managerial strategy on the organizational effectiveness of higher education schools of business. A total of 333 deans and chairs of business schools in the United States and Canada completed a survey instrument that addressed variables related to…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Business Administration Education, College Administration, Colleges
Caldwell, William E.; Daywalt, Ralph E. – 1983
Two private-sector models of organizational conflict that are appropriate and adaptable to the public sector are the bargaining and bureaucratic models. While the bargaining model covers conflicts among interest groups in competition for scarce resources, the bureaucratic model covers superior-subordinate conflicts. In the public education sector,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Collective Bargaining, Conflict
Creswell, John; Jones, Larry R. – 1979
Deans from 53 colleges of arts, science, and humanities at major U.S. universities provided data about the structure of their colleges. These colleges were studied because structural changes are occurring and baseline data is needed. Forty-two percent of the deans reported that a formal study of reorganization of their colleges had taken place in…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrators, College Administration, College Faculty