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Peer reviewedLippitt, Mary E.; Mackenzie, Kenneth D. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1976
Authority-task problems are organizational problems created by inconsistencies between the task process system and both the authority system and the formal hierarchy of offices. A new theory is used to develop a model that predicts how an administrator responds to an authority-task problem. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Administrators, Decision Making, Group Structure, Higher Education
THE EFFECTS OF FORMALLY BASED STATUS DIFFERENCES ON GROUP PRODUCTIVITY, EFFICIENCY, AND RISK TAKING.
Download full textBRIDGES, EDWIN M.; AND OTHERS
THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THIS EXPERIMENT WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER HIERARCHICALLY DIFFERENTIATED GROUPS WERE AS PRODUCTIVE ON PROBLEM-SOLVING TASKS AS HIERARCHICALLY UNDIFFERENTIATED GROUPS. THE EXPERIMENT ALSO INVESTIGATED THE EFFECTS OF FORMALLY BASED STATUS DIFFERENCES ON GROUP EFFICIENCY AND RISK-TAKING. TWENTY GROUPS CONTAINING FOUR SUBJECTS…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics, Group Norms
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
