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Download full textHendrickson, Robert M.; Bartkovich, Jeffrey P. – 1984
Organizational systematics were applied to a classification scheme for postsecondary institutions using a combined phyletic-phenetic approach. Nine characteristics of organizational structure were operationalized for the college setting: institutional autonomy, centralized decision making, functional specialization, effective participation,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Classification, College Administration, Decision Making
Quinley, John W. – 1996
A survey investigated the extent to which mid-level managers in community colleges used influence tactics. Survey respondents (N=208) reported on a variety of influence behaviors, categorized into nine influence dimensions (rational, consultation, inspiration, ingratiation, legitimating, exchange, coalition, personal, and pressure). Analysis of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Administration, Community Colleges, Higher Education
Peer reviewedDarder, Antonia – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1994
The role of institutional research in a college or university is closely related to the values, beliefs, and practices of those in authority. Institutional research has traditionally perpetuated asymmetrical power relations and subordination of some groups. However, institutional research can also be designed to promote cultural democracy by…
Descriptors: Change Agents, College Administration, College Environment, Cultural Pluralism
Peer reviewedTurner, Stephen – PS: Political Science and Politics, 1997
Poses an interesting analogy by considering the university as a constitutional entity with the faculty as its "citizens." Argues that elimination of tenure is an abrogation of the rights, and responsibilities of those citizens. Posits tenure as a stabilizing counterbalance to the often arbitrary actions of the administration. (MJP)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Economic Impact, Educational Change
