To penetrate the growing complexity of theoretical perspectives and research methodologies surrounding organizational behavior, this paper introduces the ABC Matrix. This conceptual framework clarifies complex, repetitive organizational behavior by grouping behaviors (avoidance, buffering, and confronting) into readily understood categories.…

This report from the President of Oakton Community College (OCC) to the Board of Trustees presents and supports a recommendation to retain the college's interdisciplinary cluster system. Following introductory comments, the report discusses reasons for establishing a cluster college at the present, highlighting the benefits of this systems for…

To study the actions that can be used to manage and support change in high schools, two researchers made two-day visits to two high schools in each of nine districts in various geographic areas of the nation, where they interviewed students, staff, and central office personnel. In each district, researchers selected one school they judged to be…

Article considered the reorganization of colleges of education and an educational White Paper designed to affect those changes. (RK)

Questionnaire data collected from 91 varied well-known, social-change agents were organized into a framework called the change agent's general change model. This model includes their values about change, how they conceptualize means of effecting change, the techniques they use to carry out change, their personal characteristics, and their…

The Management Review and Analysis Program, an assisted self-study strategy for large academic and research libraries, assists libraries in reviewing and analyzing their current management policies and practices, and provides guidelines for the application of contemporary principles of management for the improvement of library programs. (Author/LS)

Recent California legislation provides for administration of local environmental health problems, traditionally the domain of public health departments, by non-public health organizations. Indications are that the trend of environmental reorganization is along agency lines. Proponents feel that this could be a model for national reorganization.…

An innovation adoption process paradigm is presented in four stages. Users (1) are aware of a specific need, (2) relate to the logical continuity between previous approaches and the innovation, (3) assess evidence of positive value, and (4) integrate the innovation with their personal and social lives. (Author/MLF)

The purpose of this paper is to present a method and an illustration for taking account of the problem of nonindependence among internally "hard" criterion measurements in the evaluation of OD efforts and organizational change. (Author)

The growing emphasis on organizational change and curriculum intervention is given a new look through the eyes of a change process model that provides a framework for examining the steps in developing, implementing, evaluating, and expanding a career development program. (Author)

Speech given before the Conference on Public-Library Relations (New York City, February 8-9, 1968).

The first part of this document describes the formation of the Education Steering Committee for Basic Skills Coordination by the Education Department, consisting of representatives from six staff offices and "Head Start." The Committee's goals and accomplishments are summarized, including compilation and distribution of a legislative…