The 21 resolutions approved at the American Vocational Association (AVA) New Orleans Convention reflected: concern about the economy, the single State agency concept for administering funds, more resources for research, and support for the adoption of the metric system. (EA)

Reports the results of a questionnaire survey of academic staff at the Western Australian Institute of Technology. Examines staff perception and evaluation of bureaucracy and of job satisfaction in the college. (Author/WM)

Presents a core typology of organizational environments consisting of 64 types which can be expanded depending on the user's interest and problems. Different types of environments have consequences for the planning of strategies, operations, and tactics; coalition behavior; and decisionmaking. (Author)

Second of six articles from a special feature on differentiated staffing.

Informal social networks are patterns of relationship and interaction among persons or collectives. This paper (1) outlines a typology of informal networks, conceived from the point of view of their importance to qoals of social policy; (2) describes strategies of intervention which may be directed to the creation or enhancement of one or another…

Major elements of the theory of social behavior formulated by Talcott Parsons are applied to a study of organization. The organizational model developed is based on Parsons' four functional imperatives of goal attainment, adaptation, integration, and pattern maintenance. Organizations are regarded as social systems distinguished by different…

A reasonably precise and measureable definition of coordination is that coordination is the exchange of needed resources between two organizations. The Early Childhood Development Division in Texas evaluated how and why coordination begins and is maintained over time in groups of two organizations and in networks of many organizations. In studying…

This document, prepared for the people who work with visitors in national, state, regional, and local parks as part of the Park Project on Energy Interpretation, lists by state approximately 200 United States citizen groups, companies, and non-government agencies involved in some type of energy work. The organizations included were selected on the…

The management audit is described for possible application as an extension of the mission of the Office of Manpower Utilization (OMU) of the U.S. Marine Corps. The present mission of OMU is viewed as a manpower research program to conduct task analysis of Marine Corps occupational fields. Purpose of the analyses is to improve the functional areas…

This paper was prepared in response to a need for a rational basis upon which to analyse and appraise existing and proposed organizational structures for advanced education in Alberta, Canada. The Rationale for Organization developed in Chapter 1 is based on a humanistic philosophy that views man as free and capable of infinite perfectability…

In the Division of Teacher Education at Indiana University, all teacher training programs and administrative and service functions are organized on an ad hoc working group basis. This document contains a description of the organizational arrangement within the division and a list of its teacher training programs. It also discusses the…

Various characteristics of the American university operate to constrain its participation in changing economic and social institutions. It is understood that the university has multiple roles, has a long legitimized public service role which is becoming a university-wide commitment, must respond responsibly to the pressures for wider involvement…

The annotated directory lists approximately 46 national and state resources, and organizations as of June, 1973 which serve gifted and talented children and youth. The listings include region or state covered, name of person or office to contact, name of organization or office, telephone number, and in some cases a short description of function…

This paper discusses 43 autonomous and semiautonomous centers on The Pennsylvania State University's main campus. It deals with (1) the history and origin of the Penn State centers, and notes that the centers established between 1887 and 1955 generally represented areas in agriculture, engineering and technology, life sciences and the physical and…