Authority-Task Problems.

Lippitt, Mary E.; Mackenzie, Kenneth D.

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ERIC Number: EJ150188

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Publication Date: 1976

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Authority-Task Problems

Lippitt, Mary E.; Mackenzie, Kenneth D.

Administrative Science Quarterly, 21, 4, 643-660, Dec 76

Authority-task problems are organizational problems created by inconsistencies between the task process system and both the authority system and the formal hierarchy of offices. A new theory is used to develop a model that predicts how an administrator responds to an authority-task problem. (Author/IRT)

Descriptors: Administrators, Decision Making, Group Structure, Higher Education, Models, Organization, Organizations (Groups), Problem Solving, Statistical Analysis, Task Performance

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