Most current trends in school administration and supervision place the curriculum supervisor in a rather weak staff position---a most undesirable state, especially in occupational education programs. (Author)

Suggests that the radical's lack of involvement and concern with process over content will lead to his defeat. Hopes, however, that radical violence will not obscure legitimate problems identified by activists willing to work for change. Presented at California Junior College Association, Anaheim, 1968. (Author/CJ)

Survey data were collected from a sample of 180 married men, employed as senior civil servants, in government institutions in Accra between 1967 and 1968. A syncratic power relationship was found most common among couples similar in education and age and jointly providing for household needs. A more traditional autonomic pattern was most common…

It is argued that while conflict regulation has typically been integrated into the college curriculum within a larger, subject-specific program, there is sufficient need and substance to warrant a formal curriculum. Some such interdisciplinary programs already exist. (MSE)

It is argued that, while conflict regulation has typically been integrated into the college curriculum within a larger, subject-specific program, there is sufficient need and substance to warrant a formal curriculum. Some such interdisciplinary programs already exist. (MSE)

Compared assaultive adolescents (N=17) and nonassaultive (N=12) adolescents on a measure of family structure, assessing family perceptions of the authority hierarchy and amount of closeness and distance between family members. Results demonstrated that the experimental group significantly more often perceived a reversal in the generational…

Academic patterns of power (over students, curriculum, etc.), pretense (faculty claims about competence and experience), and piggybacking (conversion of institutions into education conglomerates) reveal some ethical issues. The patterns are deeply rooted, each with historical reason for being and current justification, yet each has outcomes that…

Discusses a new focus for the principal: establishing for faculty members a feeling of proprietorship in the school. (Author)

Examines the concepts of and relationship between responsibility and authority. Identifies seven characteristics of educational systems (authority, interdependence, the unified whole, goals, evaluation, correction, and knowledge) as central to an analysis of educational responsibility. Suggests restructuring the educational system on a…

Depicts two common views of the principal--the effective leader and the low-profile administrator--and outlines a more realistic view: the principal who realizes constraints but exercises authority as fully as possible. (Author/JM)

Data collected from a sample of farmers representing 15 Pakistani villages show that greater equality in village power distribution is positively related to greater adoption of agricultural technology as analyzed at the village level. When effects of water control are parceled out, the power-adoption relationship is strengthened. (LC)

Applies the concept of control to organizations. Argues that organizations have been constructed over time on the basis of different modes of control of the labor process. The modes of control become specialized for different socioeconomic classes within organizations in reaction to historical cycles of capitalist development. (Author/RW)

This paper outlines the major features of educational bureaucracy today, notes the myths about bureaucracy, and suggest ways of more effectively coping with the bureaucratic phenomenon. (Author/KC)

Uses data from a survey of 316 social service agencies in 17 communities to examine factors affecting the influence attributed to an organization, including the organization's centrality in a resource network, the outside constraints on its relationships with other agencies, and its strategies of relationship formation. (Author/RW)