Twenty-six principals from schools in North Carolina participated in five days of leadership training. They then participated in a 2-week staff development workshop within their own schools but met together again for leadership analysis after the end of each day's staff session. A faculty environment survey was administered to all staff before and…

The administrative team is made up of all personnel in the school environment who are directly involved in the instructional process. The principal serves as the team leader responsible for the supervision of instruction in the school and the development of a staff organization which best implements the educational program. Recognizing that modern…

This report examines variations in organizational patterns and perspectives toward field-centered research and evaluation. While recent trends show greater concern for research, present efforts are mostly university or organizationally based. Limited systematic attention has been given to research and evaluation efforts that share…

This curriculum guide gives a brief review of the relation of business to the community and an introduction to problems in organizing a small business. These problems include basic long-range decisions: type of financing, need for the business, and method of financing. The document also focuses on the more immediate problems of location, housing,…

This research project focused on the development of communication theory from qualitative data gathered through unstructured methods in a natural setting. The project emphasized the search for and discovery of communication variables by using data collection methods (unstructured interviews and nonparticipant observation) that provided detailed…

This bibliography is compiled for persons who wish to understand organizational change as it occurs in the schools or who wish to enable it to happen more surely. Most of the entries deal with processes, structures, or events in the schools or their environments. Writings about other organizations are included only when they translate easily to…

In this publication, the authors suggest that the findings reported are sufficiently well supported by evidence to act as useful guides, even if tentatively. The central purpose of the program was to develop a theory and technology for structural and cultural change within the public schools. The program deliberately emphasized both formative and…

There exists a body of theory and assumption that runs squarely at odds with that which has provided the ideological underpinnings of educational administration as it has been developed over the past two decades. The ideological conflict between these two views rests on two fundamentally different ways of looking at the world. One is the…

Report examines the relationships between the power exercised by an organization, commitment to the organization, and task performance, using the theory of compliance proposed by Etzioni for the following hypotheses: (1) Organizations relying mostly on normative power tend to elicit more commitment from lower participants than do organizations…

This report studies the transactional style of organizational processes which emphasizes the interaction of both role expectations and requirements of the institution, and of need-dispositions of the individual. This paper uses the Ford Training and Placement Program as a specific means of illustrating: (1) the reasons for adopting a transactional…

The management field of Organization Development approaches institutions from the social, technical, and economic systems with major emphasis on group process. Organization Development contains many possibilities for libraries and their staff to meet the challenge of our greatly changing environment. This paper outlines the methods by which an…

This study reports the results of a pilot Change Agent Research (CAR) project initiated in the summer of 1975 by the Sports Institute for Research (SIR) for the Windsor Minor Lacrosse Association. The purpose of the project was to audit the association to diagnose the nature of its organizational problems and assist in initiating change in order…

This report is the result of efforts to encourage thoughtful individual corporate action in maintaining up-to-date internal policies and procedures relating to the functions of advertising and promotion. Information for the report was gathered by sending letters to the chief executives of major national advertisers requesting a personal review of…

This paper defines "student development" as emphasizing processes whereby classroom instructors and student affairs persons in post secondary education collaborate in facilitating the cognitive and affective development of the student. It traces the history of such an approach, and provides some resources in print for those who wish guidelines on…

A case study of the Devils Lake Manufacturing Corporation (a successful enterprise between the Brunswick Corporation and the Sioux Indians on the Fort Totten Indian Reservation) is discussed. It shows how the thorough training of operative employees in a minority enterprise has been a factor in the organization's success. (Author/BP)