Showing papers on "Organizational culture published in 1973"

The Case for and Against Business Assumption of Social Responsibilities

Abstract: There are many sound reasons both for and against business’s assumption of social responsibilities. Because of the increasing amount of rhetoric which exists on this subject, it is appropriate to e...

Behavioral Problems With Management by Objectives

Abstract: This paper is concerned with some of the often neglected behavioral problems associated with the practice of management by objectives. These include problems relating to managerial style, adapting ...

What should we know about strategy formulation.

Abstract: If one reads the standard business policy literature, what does one find out about the formulation process needed to produce business strategy? Practically nothing! The literature is replete with d...

The Relationship of Organizational Structure to Organizational Adaptiveness in Elementary Schools. Report from the Project on Organization for Instruction and Administrative Arrangements.

Abstract: MF-$075 HC-$900 PLUS POSTAGE Case Studies (Education); Educational Change; Educational Innovation; Educational Research; *Elementary Schools; Multiple Regression Analysis; *Multiunit Schools; *Organizational Change; *Organizational Development; *School Organization This study attempted to examine the organizational structures of elementary schools in terms of complexity, centralization, formalization, stratification, and job satisfaction; and to analyze the relationship of these variables to the adaptiveness of elementary schools More specifically, it compared the Multiunit School-Elementary (MUS-E) type of school organization with that of the nonMUS-E type Adantiveness, or the activities that elementary school staffs carry out to adapt instructignal and learning programs to the differences identified among children, was measured with regard to student activities, teacher activities, and individualization Data were analyzed using multiple stepwise regression techniques with no exclusion or inclusion criteria While the study did provide evidence that organizational structures were related to organizational adaptiveness, it also revealed that factors in addition to the structural variables were contributing to the adaptiveness of MUS-E schools In other words, althougb MUS-E and nonMUS-E schools shoved substantially no difference with regard to their organizational structures, MUS-E schools were significantly more adaptive (Author/DN) echnical Report No 276 US DEPARTMENT OF HEALIR EDUCATION 6 AELFARE NATIONAL 10 STITUTE OF EDUCATION , L 41P6Co 0,,(ED EXACTLT AS RE (ELLA caoM THE PERSON OR C'P'-A17A,CKc,;,:,,N, 1r,A4G 7i 1 ,TAICD DO NO' ECt,,Aw 6rt F,+1 SETIT ccr,oro EDUCATION 2oso t THE RELATIONSHIP OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE TO ORGANIZATIONAL ADAPTIVENESS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS Report from the Project on Organization for Instruction and Administrative Arrangements by James Ellsworth Walter James M Lipham Principal Investigator Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning The University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin August 1973 Cfl'i:7 of ::11v::?ior 5Published by the Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning, supported in part as a research and development center by funds from the National Institute of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the National Institute of Education and no official endorsement by that agency should be inferred Center Contract No NE-C-00-3-0065

Influences of Organizational Goal Structures Upon Participant Evaluations

Abstract: A field study tested the relationship between attributes of organizational goals and outputs and the nature of the criteria used in participant evaluations. The results of the study imply that simi...

Formulating corporate social policy: consideration of the effect of managerial attitudes.

Abstract: The article reports on the social responsibility of business enterprises. The author focuses on the ethical and moral components being integrated into corporate culture after the social uprising wh...