The assumptions and the expectations of the budgeting systems in higher education are presented in an attempt to clarify the magnitude of the task of setting up a budgetary methodology. The assumptions of effective budgeting should be identical to the purposes of the institutions that are served. Developing a system around the acquisition,…

A stable, ordered dominance hierarchy was found via observational and sociometric methods for a group of 13-year-old boys during a five-week summer camp. This group structure was formed early in camp and was stable across settings, time, and types of dominance interactions. The hierarchy correlated significantly with the rank-orderings bed…

This monograph compiles eight papers discussing faculty collective bargaining experiences in eight different states. Part I contains articles on four states where faculty collective bargaining was in existence before 1971: Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Part II includes discussions of some more recent experiences in Hawaii,…

Attention is focused upon the interstitial, or in-between, groups of organizations in the community, as well as upon the conjunctive or competitive nature of the relationships within them. An effort is then made to offer some modifications to the many classifications of types of community leaders and structures of community power. Attention is…

This document is Part I of an extensive cross cultural project, and focuses upon the development of behavior that relates the child both to authority figures in the salient social systems about him and to the rules designed to govern the behavior of members of the system. Systems include the family, school, community, nation, and religion.…

These By-Laws, drafted by the faculty of Franklin and Marshall College, establishes a College Senate that will be responsible for "(1) the consideration and disposition of matters affecting the welfare of the College, and (2) preserving and advancing the well-being of the College as a whole." The Senate will consist of 20 members: 12…

The group discussion literature was examined to determine how fully its principles had incorporated social power principles, and to incorporate relevant power principles into the principles of group discussion. Discussion principles were classified by properties of group members, properties of groups, conditions imposed on groups, interaction…

A review of some of the basic approaches to the study of supervision in organizations leads to the conclusion that the behavioristic methodology of searching for temporal and spatial correlations between assessed events without establishing specific connections to theoretical networks has provided an inadequate basis for the understanding of the…

Attitudes of enlisted men toward interpersonal influence (the rank and authority structure) in the Navy were explored by administering questionnaires to 165 recruits at the time they joined the Navy and to 365 basic trainees during the final week of Navy basic training. Recruits had fairly accurate expectations of the inconsiderate and punitive…

Factors contributing to successful extension programs in American Indian communities are presented in this paper. Implications of the professional person's attitude toward Indian people are discussed, and concepts of program development as their application related to Indian communities are explored. Community involvement in program planning is…

This paper identifies the problems observable in the organization and operations of Harvard University's Governing Board and President's office. It poses issues requiring decisions and in some instances makes recommendations. The report first examines the Board of Overseers: the issues of power, such as lay control over universities, and the…

The present experiment provided a test of Fiedler's (1967) Contingency Model of Leadership Effectiveness, i.e., the relationship of leader style to group effectiveness is mediated by situational demands. Thirty-two 4 man task groups composed of military academy cadets were run in the experiment. In accordance with the Contingency Model, leaders…

This thesis describes a study that sought to ascertain if evidence could be found to support the idea that a relationship exists between a school administrator's ability to perceive the community power structure and his effectiveness in fulfilling role expectations as judged by his employer. A major thesis underlying this research held that…

Attempts by governmental powers to suspend the right to Habeas Corpus have occurred from time to time throughout English and American history. This study discusses one such successful attempt, engineered by William Pitt the Younger, then prime minister, in 1794. Pitt's success in gaining suspension of this writ and passage of the Habeas Corpus…

This final report announces the completion of a project, the purpose of which was to develop in coded machine retrievable form, a biographical data archive on the Soviet political elite, and in addition, to gather data on socio-economic and political factors in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The computer processed data is intended to help…