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Peer reviewedCooke, Robert A.; Rousseau, Denise M. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1981
Presents a model relating the adequacy of an organization's problem-solving to its resources and to the appropriateness of its structures. Describes a test of the model, on 25 public elementary and secondary schools in southeastern Michigan, which found that different organizational structures use money differently and produce different outputs.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Input Output Analysis, Models
Download full textCooke, Robert A.; Rousseau, Denise M. – 1981
Research of 25 Michigan elementary and secondary public schools is used to test a model relating organizations' problem-solving adequacy to their available inputs or resources and to the appropriateness of their structures. Problems that all organizations must solve, to avoid disorganization or entropy, include (1) getting inputs and producing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student
