Bureaucratic orientation as measured by SEPS was found to correlate significantly with dogmatism, conservatism, neuroticism, and extraversion. (Authors)

Reports on a study made to identify the characteristics of the environment that contribute to decision unit members experiencing uncertainty in decisionmaking. Two dimensions of the environment are identified: the simple-complex -- the number of factors taken into consideration in decisionmaking, and the static-dynamic -- the degree to which these…

Distinguishes conflict from competition in the intraorganizational context and presents a behavioral conceptualization of the conflict process. Proposes that goal incompatibility, perceived opportunity for interference, and interdependent activities among organizational subunits increase the potential for conflict. This conceptual scheme is then…

The relationships between teachers' perceptions of the structural characteristics of their schools, the leadership quality of their principals, and the extent of the satisfaction they express with their work and their colleagues are examined. The results, as displayed by two groups of teachers, (one of which attaches a high, and the other a low,…

Describes what the interaction between the trend to centralized control of building operation and the increased capabilities of computers means to building design and operation today and in the future. (Author/DN)

The new Alameda Community College near San Francisco is designed to provide dignity and emphasis to vocational studies. Buildings are organized linearly around an alameda'' (tree-lined promenade) and feature corridorless, non-airconditioned, thin-wall design to capitalize on the mild Bay climate. (Author)

This paper describes costs and effects in the design and operation of linkage mechanisms in complex systems and changing environments. (LN)

Study suggests that one possible way to begin to increase the attractiveness of secondary schools is to open" the climate. (Authors)

Excerpts from speeches of two health educators to the general session of the Health Occupations Division at the 1971 annual meeting of the American Vocational Association. (MU)

Second of three articles cites research indicating employee productivity is usually higher under employee-centered" supervisors who keep a loose rein than under job-centered" ones who exercise close supervision. Since high expectations lead to increasingly high performance, and vice versa, authors suggest ways to turn around low-producing…

Projects a greater degree of success in developing management abilities in trainees by modifying and controlling human behavior. (EK)

Seeks to reveal the role of the communication process of a technical institute and the school's communication linkages with the labor market environment during the initiation of a new program of study. (LN)

Study of relationship between consultation and decision processes in an industrial research laboratory showed the efficacy of multidirectional consultation coupled with a pattern of shared, decentralized decision making. (Author/KJ)

A review of an American and an English economic study, facts, figures, and trends are presented to confirm the durability of inequality in the private economy, and the primarily passive role of the public sector, except for compulsory education and subsistence welfare for the very poor. (DM)