Achieving the increasingly complex objectives characteristic of today's junior college requires a professional staff that is highly specialized, yet is capable of encouraging wide participation by those affected in the problem-solving activities of the organization. Overspecialization without a related concern for a team approach will, in the long…

Describes the application of strategic-planning principles at Gainesville College (Georgia) in the 1980s, the commitments the college made to both specific and general planning objectives, and the results over time as reflected in enhanced institutional effectiveness. Concludes that any strategic plan must be implemented daily and must be…

Cleveland, a former student and colleague of Watkins was aware of his earlier use of the Halpin and Crofts Organizational Climate Descriptive Questionnaire (OCDQ) at the school level in a school improvement initiative. Later as superintendent of a small city school system, Cleveland encouraged an elementary principal to utilize the results from…

In 1977, the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire (OCDQ) was administered to elementary teachers and principals in a southeastern school system. Results are compared to those found in that same school system by Kenney (1966) and Taylor (1971) to trace organizational climate change over time and in relation to school desegregation. (SJL)

The focus of this research was on the question of organizational climate tendencies over time. Andrew Halpin and Don Croft developed the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire and some of the more important research questions raised in conjunction with its development were examined. (Author/RK)

Replicating a 1971 profile study of a school system, this study used the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire to compare teachers' and principals' perceptions of the current environment in 55 of the elementary schools originally studied. Internal generative effects have caused almost all of the schools to move toward a closed climate.…

The article describes an application of the Organizational Climate Descriptive Questionnaire (OCDQ) in the author's dissertation. He explored the possible relationships among [Fred] Fiedler's assessment of psychological distance of the leader (the principal) and the organizational climate of schools as assessed by the then recently developed OCDQ…

As the basis for his doctoral dissertation, Taylor explored some of the conjectures advanced by Halpin and Croft relative to the possible directional changes in the organizational climate of schools over time. Taylor limited his study to elementary school based upon the question raised by Watkins in his dissertation relative to the validity of the…