Management by objectives (MBO), if properly applied to educational organizations, provides a rational means of achieving objectives with scarce resources. This article discusses the need for MBO, describes the process and some of its potential benefits and pitfalls. (Author/NHM)

Control over land, a scarce resource for farmers, is found to be the source of women's power in a community of Illinois farm families. Women appear to make a trade-off of lower status and less power for male management of the family enterprise, which assures them a financially secure widowhood. (Author)

A summary of the art of teacher intimidation and suggested teacher behavior learned from interviews with some student "experts." (Author/MLF)

This essay examines: (1) theoretical relations between legal decisions, conceptions of education, and educational policy; (2) the tradition of ignoring legal contexts of education, and how the one conception of education produced by the Supreme Court is garbled and confused; and (3) a new conceptualization designed to link the interests of…

Explores the conflict over succession to Mao Tse-tung and China's future developmental patterns and strategic orientation. Theorizes that Hua Kuo-feng was Mao's personal choice for succession although opposed by party radicals. Discusses the purge of Teng Hsiao-ping, the Tienanmen riot, and the designation of Hua as First Vice Chairman after the…

This article argues that both comparative and provincially American studies can be enhanced through attention to the Crozierian perspective. Central elements of Crozier's theory of "illegitimate power" are abstracted, and the applications of Crozier's viewpoint to American settings are evaluated. (Author)

The author comments on a paper criticizing the role of trustees on a Canadian board of education and their decision-making processes. (GW)

The author responds to comments on a paper of his that criticized the role of members of a Canadian board of education and their decision-making processes. (GW)

Factors characterizing the organization, the job, the supervisor, the subordinates, and the fit between supervisor and subordinates were explored for effects on participativeness by the members of 144 work groups in 13 randomly selected local health departments. (Author/MLF)

Among the purposes of this paper is the goal of describing, further developing, and clarifying the influence structure and decision-making process variables of K-12 political systems at the state level. (Author/IRT)

President Carter's description of his negotiations with President Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Begin of Israel at Camp David in 1978 was coded to illustrate the extent to which levels of creativity and types of pressures toward conformity were involved. Two sets of categories were used. (Author/ABB)

Recent arguments for democratization of schools ignore students' contribution to school organization. This ethnographic study of an Australian Catholic high school for boys advances a case for more democratic classroom relationships and for recognizing and encouraging the active role that students can play in constructing such relationships.…

Leaders have a fundamental social contract with followers. Leaders should be held accountable for failures, inadequate effort, or inaction in the face of problems or threats to the well-being of the constituency and its interests. Clarity of purpose is especially important if the leader-follower relationship is to be sound. (MSE)

The author discusses the concept, first encouraged by Irving Bluestone of the United Auto Workers, that union and management personnel should work together to achieve company goals. The history of this cooperative effort movement within the United Auto Workers is described. (CH)

Analyzes "Peter Rabbit" and "Squirrel Nutkin" by B. Potter as presenting images of boys who refuse to participate in food gathering rituals of their clan, preferring to challenge authority. Treats the stories as modern myths that admonish boys to have fun, but be prepared for the consequences of mischief. (SKC)