The pressures for accountability and collective bargaining will formally and forcefully alter the existing informal balance of power relationship between the structures of official law and policy on the one hand and the informal structure of teacher professionalism and colleagueship on the other. (Author/IRT)

Explores the implication for human service organizations when concepts drawn from organization technology, control theory, and human system design are integrated in computer simulation models that can test alternative management decisions, policies, and organization structures prior to implementation. (Author/IRT)

An attempt to discover relationships between school size and teaching styles as reported by faculty members. Some differences were revealed, but differences explainable by school size were slight. (Author/RA)

Authority consists of a subjective aspect, the accepting of a communication, and an objective aspect, the character in the communication by virtue of which it is accepted. Of these, the former is the more important, for there is no authority if the communication is rejected. (Author/WM)

This study described the work motivation of selected public school educators. Partial support was found for the assertion that individuals who are upwardly mobile seek intrinsic rewards in unstable situations with less concern for security. (Author)

Reports an attempt to develop a comprehensive instrument for the analysis and quantitative measurement of organizational characteristics within elementary and secondary schools. Both elementary and secondary factor profiles are reported with concomitant research findings drawn from empirical analysis of the data. (Author)

Examines the relationship between two dimensions of organization--centralization and formalization--and two aspects of employee orientation--subordinate loyalty and esprit. Multiple regression analyses revealed that the relationships were somewhat more complicated than originally hypothesized. (Author)

Examines some of the organizational dysfunctions that can result from an overdependence on the "rational-economic" decision-making approach. (Author)

Examines a possible causal relationship between social class, school organizational structure, and student aspirations for further education. Data indicate that a fairly sizeable relationship between the variables and the nature of that relationship is such that a process of cooling the mark out'' seems to be operating. (Author)

Presents an instructional module approach to the teaching of theory in educational administration. Suggests that the approach has potential to meet identified criteria of competency based instruction. The approach is designed to incorporate both methodological procedures of theory construction as well as substantive content of administrative and…

Using Data from empirical Studies available on the various dimensions of faculty stress, this article suggests implications for organizational design in academe. The author interprets academic behavior in terms of two criteria -- organizational effectiveness and academic freedom. (Author)

Traditional research methodologies (questionnaire surveys) ignore the role of institutional contexts in defining and structuring human agency. Biography and ethnography acknowledge context's importance in constructing leadership systems and treat followers' implicit theories more effectively. This article discusses the purposes, problems, and…

Dissatisfaction with several of the job and organizational context characteristics (especially with the campus administration) was a significant predictor of militancy, but demographic characteristics (sex, academic rank, tenure status, academic department, faculty organization membership) had almost no predictive value. (Author)