Illustrates how some bureaucratic elements are being strengthened at the expense of participation in organizational decisions by examining several sectors of British administration--industry, local and central government, development planning, and the health service. (Available from Plenum Publishing Corporation, 227 West 17 Street, New York, New…

Studies that relate computerization to either centralization or decentralization of organizational decision making are reviewed. Four issues are addressed that relate to conceptual or methodological problems. (Author/MLF)

This study, with a sample of 265 blue- and white-collar workers in six organizations, tests propositions from the theory concerning relationships between power used by organizations, commitment of workers to the organization, and task performance. (Author)

This paper presents a discontinuous analysis of organizational development and the part played by administrative capacity considered as a summation of individual attributes. Based on 20 years' study of one kibbutz, it is suggested that there are qualitatively different levels of demand for administrative capacity. (Author/MLF)

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)

Considers the use of social psychological variables like organizational identification as criteria in personnel selection research; examines how self image and perceived job characteristics are related to how much individuals value organizational identification. (Author)

The interrelationship between a set of organizational variables was investigated at 14 work organizations within a company. The variables were production, quality, costs, job satisfaction of operatives, job satisfaction of supervisors, work anxiety, accidents, absence, labor turnover, and industrial unrest. (Author)

Factors characterizing the organization, the job, the supervisor, the subordinates, and the fit between supervisor and subordinates were explored for effects on participativeness by the members of 144 work groups in 13 randomly selected local health departments. (Author/MLF)

A framework and method of a three-country comparative study on the process of participative decision-making are described. Research methods, models, and instruments are developed in the context of a longitudinal design. The major hypotheses relate to the situationally determined relation between power decentralization, skill utilization, and…