Questionnaire responses from 200 participants in a national administrator conference group indicate that secondary administrators perceive issues related to their control of the school organization as critical to their welfare in the team management approach. (Author/MLF)

"Reciprocity," a social simulation game based on exchange theory, was developed to study dynamics of power relationships in the context of marriage and the family. The manner in which Reciprocity may be used to study power in family relationships is illustrated in terms of a husband-wife and a parent-teen version. (Author)

Supervisors daily face the dilemma of authority. As middle-management personnel, they have two commitments: to the achievement and survival concerns of educational organizations, and to human concerns that revolve around the feelings, worth, and independence of human beings. (Author)

The purpose of this essay is to urge development of a theoretical perspective that links the study of internal control to that of external power relations and, in doing this, to make clear the necessary elements of such a perspective. (Author)

All educational authority is not contained within the schoolyard fence. Education and re-education are processes in which the authority underlying not just knowledge of things, but value orientations and even self-identity, should be created by communities that are much more enclusive than the profession of education. (CB)

A strong conservative current underlies much of what is currently said about authority in schooling. Educational authority should be rooted in the ideal of democratic social transformation, a function it cannot have when conceived of more narrowly in terms of institutional heirarchy and stability. (CB)

Nationalistic behavior represents the core of current world problems. We need to cultivate an alternative value system--one that reflects the implications of living on a planet where the means of existence are finite and where those means have to be carefully tended in order for our species to survive. (RM)

The author states that we must inquire deeply into the supports of liberty; these supports being the factor of power in its several overt forms, the facts of geography, the rule of law, interest in the general welfare, and knowledge of the nature of man. (CT)

Examines a dean's power in the following areas: rule-making, budgets, requests, leadership, discretionary funding, scheduling, staffing, curriculum development, and coordinating resources. (PD)

This paper suggests an approach which combines ideas about coalitions of power in managerial organizations with a soundly based technology of management development intervention. (Author/SSH)

Presents a perspective to help social workers develop the organizational skills needed to practice effectively in hospitals. Examines the nature of hospitals and the hospital worker's practice-building and practice-implementing skills. Examples illustrate task management, creating power, and developing the work role. (JAC)

Educational leaders must continually refine their skills to successfully utilize the following leadership components: reward, coercive, expert, and legitimate and referent power to help schools achieve and sustain their vision. The intent of this article is to examine how educational leaders can positively and successfully establish authority to…

The ultimate goal of a liberation curriculum is to make black students intelligent political activists so that they will know how to achieve and maintain power. (Author)

A plea for restoration of a reasonable balance of power between faculties and administrators. (Editor)