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Hearn, James J.; Thompson, Hugh L. – J Gen Educ, 1970
Faculty participation in policy-making decisions at institutions of higher learning is examined in depth. (CK)
Descriptors: Administrators, College Faculty, Decision Making, Faculty Organizations
Download full textSmith, Martha L.; Smith, Milton L. – 1980
This paper reports on two processes used to begin a long-term series of studies on educational power structures in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Purposes of the study were to determine if (1) substrata or pools of power undergird educational power structures, (2) certain paths to power are…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Employed Women, Occupational Surveys, Policy Formation
Bartunek, Jean M.; Keys, Christopher B. – 1980
The effects of a three-year Organization Development (OD) intervention on power equalization were examined in seven experimental and seven control schools. The principals and teachers from experimental schools participated in OD workshops, in a project-coordinating council for planning and policy, and in school goal-setting activities. The power…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Decision Making, Elementary Education, Organizational Development
McPartland, James M. – 1977
In this speech, the author considers how the authority dimension of school organization may be related to students' lack of attention to long-range goals and to some of their motivational problems in the classroom. First, the author reviews how the distinction between short-run and long-run returns is similar to familiar distinctions made by…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Organization, Organizations (Groups), Participation
Patchen, Martin – 1972
A conceptual approach to studying interpersonal influence is outlined as a framework within which results of a study of purchase decisions in business firms are presented. Data concerning the bases of influence in these organizations--especially data showing the importance of a person's stake in the decision--do not fit neatly into the well-known…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Group Dynamics
Talbert, Joan E. – 1984
Based on an institutional-contingency view, this study focuses on ways in which public and private school sectors in six San Francisco area counties embody different organizational logistics and authority principles, including rational-legal, traditional, and local-market. Results suggest that, among other characteristics, nonreligious private…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
Mowday, Richard T. – 1976
This study examined selected aspects of the exercise of influence in educational organizations. Power motivation, characteristics of the exercise of influence, and influence effectiveness were studied. A sample of elementary school principals indicated their perceptions and behavioral intentions relevant to the exercise of upward influence in…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Education, Motivation, Organizational Effectiveness
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This paper discribes the analysis of data in the Management Implications of Team Teaching Project (MITT). It touches on the interviews conducted with teachers and principals, presents the breadth of information obtained in the questionnaire, and explains how the data were aggregated and how issues were grouped. Information collected in the…
Descriptors: Centralization, Cluster Analysis, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Analysis
Redfield, Kent; Gore, William – 1975
Concurrent with a needs assessment and community input study, a research team undertook two behavioral science research efforts. The first was an identification and examination of the influence network through which local leadership was organized. The second was an examination of how those who constituted the network of policy-making influentials…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Community Development, Community Influence, Decision Making
Jennings, Robert E. – 1982
The organization of local government in England underwent significant structural revision during the 1970s, creating centralized authorities focused on objectives and service delivery systems rather than on organizational structures and the separate services delivered. As the most autonomous local agency prior to reorganization, education was the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Centralization, Decision Making
Booth, Ronald R.; And Others – 1985
In October 1984 the Illinois Association of School Boards mailed four-part questionnaires concerning collective bargaining and salaries to superintendents in 940 of the 1,006 school districts in Illinois. This report arranges the data from the 582 responses into tables providing information concerning four broad subjects: the current status of…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Fringe Benefits
FRANKLIN, PAULA; FRANKLIN, RICHARD – 1967
THIS NATIONAL TRAINING LABORATORIES (NTL) CONFERENCE, DEPARTING SOMEWHAT FROM ITS USUAL EXPERIENCE-BASED LEARNING PROGRAMS, FOCUSED LABORATORY TRAINING METHODS ON THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS IN URBAN COMMUNITY PROBLEM SOLVING. THE CONFERENCE PRESENTED THEORY, INFORMATION, AND OPINION ON THE NATURE OF CITIES AND THEIR DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Change
Mezey, Susan Gluck – 1977
The research investigated the relationship of a person's sex to his or her public policy preferences, with particular regard to women's issues. Women's issues are reflected in public policy which directly affects women's lives. Examples are day care facilities, sex bias of educational materials, and abortion facilities. The study was conducted to…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Comparative Analysis
