Assessed the impact of managerial behavior and manager reputation on perceptions of power in two studies. Behavior significantly influenced perceptions of reward, coercive, legitimate, expert, and referent power; reputation significantly influenced perceptions of legitimate, referent, and especially expert power. Suggested the existence of an…

Describes interactional elements of the power of situations and presents a perspective on the instrumental use of friendships. Suggested methods for micropolitical counteraction include information illumination, independent thinking, stress innoculation, dilution of oppressive demeanor, and mental distancing. (JAC)

The ways that institutional researchers can analyze the political nature of their institutions and better understand the role institutional research plays in that environment are suggested. The major strength of an institutional research office is information and the analysis of information. (Author/MLW)

A case study of the Flood Recovery Task Force (FRTF) in northeastern Pennsylvania reinforces the importance of preexisting, integrative structures to group mobilization and documents the routine political nature of FRTF activity. The study also establishes the role of well-organized status and economic influentials in disaster recovery. (Author/KC)

Trends in Australian higher education indicating increased government intrusion into the decision-making structure are outlined. Suggestions for action include coordinated efforts with state agencies to forestall national intrusion, united action among faculty and administrator associations, increased political sophistication within universities,…

The practical usefulness of H. S. Bhola's models for planned change is questioned through speculations on problems that would have arisen if the models had been applied in arranging an Inter-American Development Bank technical assistance project in Barbados. (PP)

Two positions on the issue of legal education regulation are described: that regulation assures quality and protects the public; and that legal education should be completely deregulated, allowing any school to become a law school and anyone to practice law. A middle ground is advocated, abolishing accreditation but retaining bar examinations.…

Used factors identified in the literature as predictors of centralization/decentralization as potential discriminating variables among several decision making configurations in university affiliated professional schools. The model developed from multiple discriminant analysis had reasonable success in classifying correctly only the decentralized…

Analyzes African development strategies as a response to conditions and limitations imposed by a history of colonialism and neocolonialism. (Author/MJL)

Problems unique to central administrations and board members are discussed, including the line of authority, treating institutions equitably, exceeding statute-imposed limitations, the failure of board members to do their homework, and the extent to which the board should represent the people of the state and the institutions it governs. (MLW)

Previous efforts to frame age relations within the context of class stratification have been incomplete due to a failure to grasp the underlying continuity in the inequality produced by age and class location. Both age strata and social classes differ in their possession of valued resources and access to the means of acquiring these resources.…

The prevailing trends in American education-- centralization, bureaucratization, and hyperrationalization-- are being pressed upon the institution of schooling through current modes of educational change. A better approach is to increase human control over educating, locating responsibility for educational improvement with the teachers themselves.…

Presents a multivariate model for explaining cross-cultural variation in sexual stratification as implied in Collins's theory. Tested the model with subsample of societies (N=74) from the standard cross-cultural sample. Results were inconsistent with Collins's theory. Kinship and family variables were better predictors than economic and political…

A survey of 601 managers and workers in 10 German manufacturing companies studied the implications of workers' participation for the exercise of control. Statistical analysis of data on control over work environments, production organization, personnel, and finance indicated that, in more participative companies, distribution of control is more…

Studied the gender-linked reactions of small groups to co-leadership situations. Results showed female co-leaders at a group relations conference for college students could be liked, but they were not perceived as having task relevant attributes. Group members' associations to gender were more powerful than associations of formal authority. (JAC)