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Peer reviewedBelasco, James A.; And Others – Planning and Changing, 1976
Reports the relationship between the teachers' participation in organizational decision-making and the perceived influence attributed to their administrative superiors, the principal and the superintendent. (Author)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Structure, Organization
Peer reviewedGrimes, Michael D.; And Others – American Sociological Review, 1976
Relates community structural variables to leadership arrangements, paying special attention to the results obtained when three alternative measures of "reputational" leadership (visibility, legitimacy and centralization) are used in two samples of communities. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Comparative Analysis, Conceptual Schemes, Ecological Factors
Download full textBacharach, Samuel B. – 1983
This essay reviews major trends in methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of organizations since the mid-sixties and espouses the political analysis of organizations, a position representing a middle ground between comparative structuralism and the loosely coupled systems approach. This position emphasizes micropolitics as well as…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Case Studies, Decision Making, Educational Administration
Roberts, William B.
The study presents the results of testing an original obersvation instrument designed to identify a power elite in multiple sessions of two eight-member adult discussion groups. Two questions guided the development of the study: (1) Can a power elite be identified in participation training groups? (2) Can an effective observation instrument with…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods
