A new Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching study, "College: The Undergraduate Experence in America," reports deep divisions, conflicting priorities, and competing interests on college campuses that diminish the social and intellectual quality of the undergraduate experience. (MSE)

The Crisis Prevention Analysis model offers a framework for simple, straightforward self-appraisal by college administrators of problems in the following areas: fiscal, faculty and staff, support functions, and goals and attitudes areas. (MSE)

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…

Analyzes solutions to role ambiguity related to employment stress in terms of managerial and individual behaviors. Considers five categories of stress reduction culled from social learning theory. (Author/ABB)

Most organizational behavior literature recognizes the importance of guidance and good feelings (leader substitutes) in maximizing personal and organizational outcomes. In this study, teachers identified leader substitutes, not leader behavior, as significantly related to organizational commitment and role ambiguity. Includes 5 tables and 14…

Controlling for three types of pay systems (individual incentives, group incentives, and fixed hourly wages), examines the nature of relationships of technological organization and managerial and task features to the job attitude of work-role centrality (WRC). Found that technological organization was most closely related to WRC under incentive…

Concerns ways in which consultants can learn about their clients' politics and address this content explicitly. Describes two modeling techniques that consultants might use in consultant-client interactions to facilitate the explicit examination and analysis of internal politics. Illustrates these techniques with case examples. (Author/ABB)

Australia is the world's driest continent. One-third of the country's area is unsuitable for any land use, while another third is suitable only for cattle and sheep grazing. Australia's physical geography, weather conditions, wildflowers, and wildlife are discussed. (RM)

Having successfully used computer control in the solar-heated and cooled Terraset School, the Fairfax County, VA, Public Schools are now computerizing all their facilities. This article discusses the configuration and use of a countywide control system, reasons for the project's success, and problems of facility automation. (MCG)

The law school as an organization is examined by a hypothetical Irish monk from several moral points of view (teleologically, interpersonally, and according to the ethics of responsibility) and advised as to the effect of the law school community on its members. (MSE)

Examines changes that technology has made in librarianship and offers personal observations concerning changes in the future. Discussion covers allocation of responsibilities among library personnel; mobilization to work; behavior and skills critical for efficiency and productivity; changes in work based on flow of, and access to, information; and…

Continued existence of Unesco is threatened by United States withdrawal in 1984, and British threat to follow suit in 1985, because of alleged mismanagement and politicization. Effects on Unesco's Medium-Term Plan, 1984-89, including programs in communication and information, are unclear. Statements of professional association support and eight…

Organizational factors affecting curriculum change are discussed, including resistance to change, organizational climate, leadership and organizational culture, and conditions for effective participation. Four special considerations are outlined: the ethics of curricular change, creating a culture of innovation, zero-based curricular review, and…

The phrase "community of scholars" contains a contradiction. Actions that strengthen the community weaken the scholarship and actions that strengthen the scholarship weaken the community. Continuing tradeoffs between community and scholarship produce many of the unique organizational properties that universities exhibit. (Author/MLW)

Discusses use of local newspaper weather maps (and related weather information) to create activities for the science classroom. Basic weather vocabulary and weather patterns are also discussed. (JM)