The location of medical teaching in the university presents an interesting problem for historians of medicine and higher education. Because the training of physicians has been included among the tasks of the university for so long and because medicine was the first of the professions to organize itself,scholars have tended to view the linkage of…

Some realistic changes in the traditional authority-responsibility organizational concepts, which would recognize creativity, initiative, influence, and potential accomplishments, would involve people in industry who do not have formal authority or status--just talent. (Author/BP)

Paper presented in part at the National Seminar on Adult Education (Chicago, Ill., February 1968), based upon research for doctoral dissertation at University of Chicago.

Educational change is a process occurring through time, a systemic and dynamic phenomenon in which every action leads to reactions in related areas of the system, and a multidimensional phenomenon requiring examination from the perspective of several disciplines. The success of an innovation depends on how the change process is managed, how the…

The Disciples of Christ, an indigenous American religious movement born on the frontier, grew rapidly until early in the twentieth century. Its growth was based on a rhetorical vision that offered a plausible interpretation of the data of the senses and accounted for developments in human activity and conditions. That rhetorical vision was linked…

SEVERAL CASES OF ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT ARE EXAMINED FOR COMMON STRATEGIES APPLIED IN A SELECTED GROUP OF CASES. STUDIES SELECTED MET THE CONCEPT OF ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT AND PROVIDED SUFFICIENT INFORMATION TO INDICATE CASE OUTCOME. AFTER SELECTING THE STUDIES, THE STRATEGY AND ISSUES OF EACH WERE IDENTIFIED, AND COMPARISONS WERE MADE OF…

The humanization of bureaucracies is essential in modern society. Traditionally, the training of administrators has emphasized three models of organizations. The first is the productivity model, the second model assumes that fulfilling the needs of organizational members will increase client satisfaction, and the third assumes a stable environment…

PROPOSED IS THE CREATION OF THREE NEW, INTERDEPENDENT MECHANISMS OF CITY GOVERNMENT--ELECTED DISTRICT COUNCILS, A DIVISION OF SOCIAL PLANNING, AND A BUREAU OF SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY. BECAUSE THE FUNCTION OF EACH UNIT IS CLOSELY INTERRELATED THEY SHOULD OPERATE IN CLOSE COLLABORATION. THIS REORGANIZED ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE WOULD BE ABLE TO DEAL…

Economic, demographic and political trends are three major forces affecting the educational system. Since 1945, rapidly changing technology has increased demands for expert manpower and eradicated or considerably decreased the need for unskilled labor. The educational system responds to this challenge by preparing professionally qualified…

This book discusses the need for organizational planning in a rapidly changing society and examines how a systems approach to needs assessment can meet that need. In the foreword, futurologist Earl Joseph discusses the phenomenon of social change and need for systematic planning to anticipate and direct change. In chapter 1, the authors present an…

This paper examines the process of intervention design as it relates to the grammar of artifactual action. In his discussion, the author identifies three separate elements of artifactual action. These elements include defining the situation of action and the change agent's relationship to the situation; generating typical expectations about…

This report describes a study that examined the process of educational reform and sought to determine how and why internal changes occur in the evolution of an educational program. The author studied the progress of four educational reforms in the Brunswick-Freeport area of midcoast Maine, including the introduction of significant changes in the…

This survey was intended to determine the relationship between educators' previous involvement with institutional change and their interest in the Massachusetts Diffusion Assistance Project (MDAP). Materials describing MDAP were mailed to 159 school administrators who had indicated an initial interest in MDAP. Respondents were divided into four…

This booklet attempts to give a brief overview of the nature of organization development (OD). It describes the role of the professional organization development specialist, how he functions, and what he tries to do in the client system. It also describes the purposes of the Midwest Organization Development Network, a nonprofit association of OD…

The use of a management-by-objectives format as an administrative leadership evaluation method can contribute to the effect of an organizational leadership change. The applicability of this method to situations would be determined by a number of factors that may or may not exist in every organization. While the technique of using…