The major organizational climate assessment techniques are described and the differing potential of these techniques in the designing of organizational development interventions is discussed. Based on the data, an approach to the development of a basic taxonomy for assessing organizational environments is mentioned. (Author/MLP)

An enquiry of 83 American organization development consultants with experience as facilitators in public schools indicated that only seven reported using one or more of the recognized assessment techniques for which there are published data concerning factor structure, reliability, and validity. (Author)

The factors of people, technology, structure, and task provide a sociotechnical model for understanding the essential elements of schools as organizations. Schools can be understood as cultures and managed as such. Effective schools focus on a task-oriented organizational culture that meaningfully involves all participants in the key elements of…

This research attempts to find relationships between the Halpin-Croft Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire (OCDQ) and the Stern-Steinhoff Organizational Climate Index (OCI) in their respective descriptions of organizational phenomena. By organizational climate is meant those characteristics that distinguish the organization from others…

A factor structure extracted from the responses of 757 graduate students in educational administration is described along with the graphic representation of the 42 programs which they represent. The data are discussed with regard to their implications for program planners in educational administration. (Author)

Applies the Organizational Climate Index methodology in analyzing the work environments of professors in graduate departments of educational administration affiliated with the University Council for Educational Administration. (Author/IRT)