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Peer reviewedLippitt, Mary E.; Mackenzie, Kenneth D. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1976
Authority-task problems are organizational problems created by inconsistencies between the task process system and both the authority system and the formal hierarchy of offices. A new theory is used to develop a model that predicts how an administrator responds to an authority-task problem. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Administrators, Decision Making, Group Structure, Higher Education
