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White, Auston E. – 1990
Two structures of authority coexist in colleges and universities: one that manages the supporting functional services and one that deals with the production areas of scholarship, teaching, and learning. This literature review defines organizational structure, discusses traditional organization models such as bureaucratic models, and outlines the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Group Structure, Higher Education
Peer reviewedKakabadse, Andrew – Small Group Behavior, 1986
Investigated relationship between aspects of organizational structure and alienation as experienced by personnel (N=603) employed in nine social services organizations. Interviews with personnel making executive decisions, those making supervisory assessments, and those concerned with client interaction revealed that the best predictions of…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Alienation, Centralization, Employee Attitudes
Dunning, Robert Scott; Sincoff, Michael Z. – 1978
In long established research organizations, it is necessary to safeguard good research ideas originating at lower organizational levels. The upward progress of unusually good ideas in an organizational hierarchy may be compared with that of ordinary ideas by means of a mathematical model, with the assumption that ideas follow a Poisson…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Bureaucracy, Communication (Thought Transfer), Group Structure
Download full textTHIEMANN, FRANCIS C. – 1967
THIS DOCUMENT LISTS 56 JOURNAL ARTICLES, 18 BOOKS, 10 DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS, AND TWO UNPUBLISHED PAPERS ON SUCCESSION IN COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONS PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1948 AND 1966. SOCIOLOGY CONTRIBUTED 40 OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ENTRIES, HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE 19, EDUCATION 16, PSYCHOLOGY SEVEN, AND BUSINESS FOUR. (HM)
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Characteristics, Bibliographies, Bureaucracy
Kramer, Howard C. – 1982
Aspects of the relationships between state college and university representatives and state coordinating councils, and forms of intragroup behavior are considered. It is suggested that within an interorganizational paradigm, knowledge of and ability in interagency coordination may be crucial to the future of higher education. Higher education is…
Descriptors: Competition, Cooperation, Government School Relationship, Group Dynamics
Smith, Wade; Ellett, Chad D. – 2000
Efforts to change the role of principals over the past 30 years typically reflect a leader-centrist perspective of schools illustrated by the metaphors of a marching band or the slightly less hierarchical classical orchestra. In these conceptual systems, policy (score) is generated (composed) by policymaking bodies (composers) with principals…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Light, Donald, Jr.; Spiegel, John P. – 1977
Eleven years after the end of the height of protest on college and university campuses, it is important to try to understand what the student protest movement was all about, how it came to be, how and why it ended, and what will happen next. Through intimate case studies of takeovers at various universities, the dynamics of that era are examined.…
Descriptors: Activism, Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, College Administration
