People in academic social systems who are interested in promotions learn about decision-making processes in academe, and about communication linkages. They learn to grasp the impact of these linkages and the support networks. An irrefutable ingredient is a sterling professional performance. Applying personal power requires individual tailoring.…

Discusses the change in the relationship between students and teachers, as that relationship is based on authority, over 20 years at two Episcopal schools. Available from Private School Quarterly, Post Office Box 21587, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33335. (IRT)

Three significant process relationships were found: (1) social power affected leader behavior; (2) group cohesiveness affected job satisfaction; and (3) job satisfaction affected intent to leave. Important nonsignificant findings also emerged: (1) leader behavior did not affect intent; and (2) group cohesiveness did not affect intent. (Author)

Androgynous husbands used fewer last-resort, dependency and authoritative, and more give-up means of influence. Androgynous wives tended to use significantly less give-up, accommodative, dependency and authoritative means. Different sex-role types will differ in the use of means of influence. (Author)

Previous faculty National Labor Relations Board status decisions are analyzed to discern the rationale behind the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to follow prior holdings of the Board. The Board can now either set a procedure for determining faculty status or declare faculty protected, forcing Congress to address the issue directly. (MSE)

Economics can help formulate clear and answerable questions for assessing educational performance and the use of resources, but the economist can also identify wider issues of power and control. The British educational system is a producer-dominated system with great monopoly power, limited by resources; its implications are noted. (Author/MSE)

Interprets Saul Alinsky's contribution to community development through three themes: community cohesiveness as one goal of community organization; political participation and goal of broadening community participation in city-wide decision making; and the use of nonviolent conflict in unifying diverse local interests and effectively bargaining…

Probes some ways in which teachers in a preschool system adapted their behavior in the light of the demands that they perceived the organization placed on them. Also examines the communication of power and authority that influenced the behavior of the teachers. (Author/IRT)

A national survey of student personnel administrators shows that they have policy-making authority for their areas of direct responsibility, that over 95 percent report directly to the institution's chief executive officer, and that student personnel services are diverse and include many traditional and nontraditional areas. (MSE)

Discusses several conditions that can inhibit or enhance a principal's effectiveness: the size of a school or district, the distribution of power, the unit of management, and the availability of support systems that foster professional development. (Author/IRT)

Maintains that civics education in high school would be more interesting to students if it involved politics as well as historical abstraction. Examples of pertinent political issues are presented and discussion questions are suggested. (DB)

Among other things, public sector bargaining divides public authority and redistributes a share of it to private entities--mainly unions--that are not elected by or accountable to the public. It also undermines the general conditions for healthy democratic governance of society. (Author/IRT)

The author proposes a new role synthesis for the principal, that of Chief Executive Officer--the ultimate "quality control officer" for the school and its program. He cites three main areas for change or improvement that principals must effect in order to assume executive authority. (Author/SJL)

Tests the viability of resource theory for explaining adolescent perceptions of parental power. Regression analyses support the resource theory approach. Findings show those potential determinant variables taken together are less influential for adolescent perceptions of maternal than paternal power. Parental power perceptions are not sex-linked…

A speech to the 1976 annual meeting of the National University Extension Association addresses the problem of who shall control, develop, organize, provide for, and profit from the continuing education of professionals in our society. Attention is given to the concept of professionalism. (WL)