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MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES AND UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS: A SURVEY OF TRAINING NEEDS IN BRITISH UNIVERSITIES
R.M. THORPE, B. WHITTINGTONIn the past few years a new debate has started and blossomed among those concerned with British university administration. It has centred around the lack of specific provision of…
STAFF DEVELOPMENT FOR UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE ADMINISTRATORS IN AUSTRALIA
ROBERT McCAIGThe universities have traditionally seen as one of their major functions the preparation of persons for the higher professions. Though the definition of high profession has been…
THE CONSORTIUM IN HIGHER EDUCATION
DANIEL WALLACE LANGThat institutions of higher education should cooperate with one another is hardly an uncommon idea. In recent years, especially since colleges and universities began to feel…
AUTONOMY IN HIGHER EDUCATION: SOME RESEARCH FINDINGS
ADAM GRAYCARIt is generally held that the educational programmes of any higher educational institution, i.e. what is taught and how it is taught, are determined by those in the educational…
COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
W.G. WARREN, J.A. REESThis report arises out of considerations to “merge” different institutions of higher education, and from preliminary work on techniques for objective assessment of “learning…
ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ADMINISTRATIVE TRAINING PROGRAMS: PROFESSORS AND THEIR WORK ENVIRONMENTS
LLOYD K. BISHOP, CARL R. STEINHOFFThis paper presents the findings of a nation‐wide survey in the USA of the organizational environment, or climate, of UCEA affiliated preparation programs in educational…
GOAL SETTING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS
FRANCINE S. HALLFour common goal setting practices in public schools are assessed from the perspective of modern organization theory. The major thesis of the paper is that organizational goals…
AN ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM?
HAROLD W. BOLESThe team concept in school administration has been receiving attention and lip service in many school districts throughout the United States and, to a lesser degree, in Australia…
FACULTY INFORMAL STRUCTURE, PUPIL CONTROL IDEOLOGY AND PLURALISTIC IGNORANCE
LOUIS J. SALERNO, DONALD J. WILLOWERPupil Control Ideology is expressed in terms of a custodial‐humanistic continuum. A cutodial orientation stresses the maintenance of order through strong discipline and punitive…
CONSTRUCT VALIDATION OF A STAFF MORALE QUESTIONNAIRE
K.W. WILLIAMS, T.J. LANEThis paper reports on the construct validity of an instrument initially developed to measure five dimensions of morale among Australian teachers. Using factor analysis, the…
SCHOOL ORGANIZATION IN A CHANGING SOCIETY
E.H. NEWTONThis paper discusses the formal organization of the school in order to arrive at ways in which schools might be organized for the fuller development of children. Accepting that…
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- Professor Jayson W. Richardson