Investigating the networks of communication in organizations leads to an understanding of efficient and inefficient information dissemination as practiced in large systems. Most important in organizational communication is the role of the "liaison person"--the coordinator of intercommunication. When functioning efficiently, coordinators maintain…

Information was gathered concerning community Action Agencies (CAA) educational activities, programatic activities and organizational interactions both within the CAA structure and between the CAA and other organizations. The study was designed to focus on a comparison between CAA educational activities and specified Community Action Program (CAP)…

This paper presents a summary and analysis of the current state of research in the field of organizational innovativeness and develops a provisional conceptual outline of the overall process and characteristics of organizational innovation and the general factors which may be related to innovativeness. Based on the "summaries approach" to…

Organizational development in education views the school as a social system and is directed toward growth of the school's internal staff relationships so that the school can attain and sustain an optimum level of organizational performance. During a 1-week training session, involving administrative and teaching staff members at an experimental…

Present and possible future forms of West Virginia rural extension organization were examined in the light of modern societal change and complexity. Individual adjustment to a changing social and cultural environment was proposed as the aim of the future Extension service. These were among the implications of such an orientation: (1) with the aim…

This workshop was undertaken to exchange, through face to face interaction, theoretical formulations on adult education and the social sciences; and to provide adult educators with opportunities to learn more about theory building principles and strategies. Papers for the first day discussed research dissemination and utilization, measurement of…

This study explores some of the relationships of the task structure in organizations to the allocation of power, job satisfaction, and perceptions of rewards. Six elementary schools in three school districts in a Midwestern State were studied. Three schools were "traditional," the others were multiunit schools. Questionnaires were administered to…

These are the authors' personalized statements of how organizations function, how organizational excellence is to be judged, and how an organizational development effort can contribute to the achievement of such excellence. The book deals with the fundamentals of planned change as they apply to the corporation. It describes the principles and…

While the concept of decentralization does highlight parent participation in school affairs, the actual process of getting parents involved in educational decision making is one of progressively building up confidence, knowledge, and skills of strategies which the system has withheld from them in the past. A small group of risk-taking parents can…

The Education Professional Development Act inaugurated, in 1971, a Pupil Personnel Services Program to encourage recruitment, training, and program development for more versatile pupil personnel service workers. The program established seven three-year regional projects, each with a center providing leadership to smaller satellite settings. A…

During the past several years a number of studies and subsequent reports have been issued which addressed specific needs in the area of management for schools in the District of Columbia. All of the reports cited here--the Passow, Nelsen Committee, Price-Waterhouse, and Management Review Reports--identified areas of deficiency in the managerial…

This paper argues that research on innovation and organizational change should shift its focus from the impact of individuals to that of organizational structure and environmental factors. The results of two research projects carried out in 1968-69 and 1969-70 on organizational change in school districts are presented to support the premise that…

The Wilbur Cross Library of the University of Connecticut has conducted a Management Review and Analysis Program (MRAP) study as outlined by the Association of Research Libraries. The MRAP report contains introductory chapters on the history and present circumstances of the University of Connecticut and its library. There follow reports and…

The Appalachian Volunteers (AV's), conceived of by Federal, State, and private interests in February 1964, were sponsored by the Council of the Southern Mountains. The organization undertook weekend and vacation projects using college students to repair and renovate one-room schools in isolated areas of eastern Kentucky, later including summer…

At their inception, community colleges adopted the traditional department/division structure. But there is a trend in community colleges toward combining related disciplines into a single department. Despite any administrative effort to subordinate or abolish the traditional department, the faculty within each discipline considers itself a…