The organizational patterns of the European School system represent an amalgam of continental educational practices. The European School serves children from Belgium, France, Federal Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. (Author/IRT)

Over 200 organizations, having as their primary emphasis the betterment of the Spanish-speaking American, are listed in this directory. Brief resumes of the organizations include name, address, principal officer(s), date of establishment, and a synopsis of objectives and activities. Six organizations are considered national in scope and constitute…

This Manual of Operation for the Administrative Functions at Wisconsin State University, Whitewater was developed to more clearly identify the administrative organization at WSU and to delineate the functions of the principal administrative officers. Part I presents state statutes and procedures outlining the authority for governance at State…

Previous methods for determining the communication structure of organizations work well for small or simple organizations, but are either inadequate or unwieldy for use with large complex organizations. An improved method uses a number of different measures and a series of successive approximations to order the communication matrix such that…

A number of conceptual and empirical problems that arise in 80 studies are noted and their implications are pursued. It is argued that size has generally been defined in terms too global to permit its relation to organizational structure to be understood adequately. An alternative conceptualization is presented. (Author/IRT)

Communication networks are simply regular patterns of communication between people in an organization. Such networks are essential since they provide the basic structure or informal organizational chart through which information is exchanged throughout the organization. (Author)

This article seeks to draw upon what has been learned about other kinds of organizations in order to clarify some of the matters that would be involved in a study of effectiveness in educational organizations. (Author)

This study presents data comparing managerial and supervisory orientations to bureaucratic procedures in nine bureaucratic organizations. (Author)

The significance of the establishment of the Guidance Division at the recent American Vocational Association convention in Boston is explained in a statement prepared by the Division's vice president. (JK)

The aim of this study was to develop a short form of the schedule of organizational information to represent accurately the major dimensions of context and structure established. (Author)

Deficiencies in existing models in organizational science may be remedied by applying the population approach, with its concepts of taxonomy, classification, evolution, and population ecology; and natural selection theory, with its principles of variation, natural selection, heredity, and struggle for existence, to the idea of organizational forms…

The transactions cost approach provides a framework for evaluating organizations on the basis of efficiency because it allows the identification of the conditions that give rise to the costs of mediating exchanges between individuals. The three basic mechanisms of mediation or control are markets, bureaucracies, and clans. (Author/IRT)

At the 1979 mid-year convention of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), topics discussed were Indian legislative priorities for the 96th Congress, a plan for increasing political awareness among tribes, and the May 1979 action by NCAI President Veronica Murdock requesting the resignation of the NCAI executive director. (NQ)