Suggests that a rigorous comparison of expressed goals (both written and verbal) of black organizations with existing organizational designs indicates that the overall organizational structure is not only ineffective for the achievement of the expressed goals, but the overall structure is dysfunctional as well. (Author/JM)

The viewpoints and findings of the seven empirical studies of organizational conflict contained in this issue are compared and contrasted. A distinction is made between conflict within a stable organization structure and conflict aimed at changing the organization structure. (Author)

The 1996 American Evaluation Association conference in Atlanta featured a session on strategies to promote monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs). At that time, there was a lengthy list of proposed initiatives to be undertaken in CARE. With the perspective of hindsight and reviewing the…

Part of a series of studies on higher education in different countries, this paper examines internal differentiation of Japanese higher education and the problem of coordination, using a comparative perspective. The crucial difference in the division of universities by subjects among different nations has been between chair and department…

Sponsored by the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), the second edition of this groundbreaking handbook assembles in one place the existing research-based knowledge in education finance and policy, with particular attention to elementary and secondary education. Chapters from the first edition have been fully updated and revised…

School-based management (SBM) is the decentralization of authority from the central government to the school level. SBM has become a very popular movement over the past decade. The World Bank's work program emerged out of a need to define the concept more clearly, review the evidence, support impact assessments in various countries, and provide…

This cross-cultural discourse analysis examines the construction of environmental issues on Greenpeace web pages in China, Japan and Germany. To uncover the semantic representation of environmental activism on these sites, the authors sought to identify discursive homogeneity and divergence and to bring to light embedded cultural assumptions. The…

Describes the areas of the National Science Foundation most affected by reorganization. These areas are the basic research area which went from one directorate to three and the advice/policy area which saw the creation of a Directorate of Scientific, Technological, and International Affairs (STIA). (GS)

This descriptive report examines public interest groups formed by women in the United States. In 1978 and 1979 representatives from the Center for the American Woman and Politics attended national and regional meetings of public interest and professional groups whose members work in local, county, and state governments. While there, they observed…

Described is the International Union of Biological Sciences and its functions. The United States National Committee is also described. (RH)

In this directory, the International Federation for Documentation (FID) provides names and addresses of its administrative and committee officers, and of its member and affiliated organizations, both international and national. Those international organizations with which FID is associated are also noted, and the relationship indicated:…

The interorganizational network may be conceived as a political economy concerned with the distribution of two scarce resources--money and authority. Organizations pursue an adequate supply of these resources. Interactions and sentiments of organizations are dependent on their respective market positions and their power to affect the flow of…

The issue of retrenchment as an organizational adaptation to changing conditions is discussed here in relation to four interrelated policy questions: What is the economic future of schooling? What economic assumptions underlie the institutional model of school organization? How could economics be interpreted in terms of a human investment model of…