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Imbrogno, Salvatore – 1983
A policy system design that can benefit from the dynamics of small group behavior without suffering from the adverse effects associated with group thinking, in which the members of small groups acquire a concurrence seeking tendency, is comprised of three subsystem functions: (1) a sub-system normative function which requires that small groups be…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Decision Making, Group Dynamics, Models
Readling, John; Kiley, Lawrence A. – 1981
Periods of executive change provide an ideal time for the development of planning efforts for public school systems and for self-examination of the system's strengths, weaknesses, and long-range needs. In the anonymous school system under study, the new superintendent's application of general systems theory to school district management entailed a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role
