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Download full textBacharach, Samuel B.; Mitchell, Stephen M. – 1983
This paper reports a survey of the attitudes of school personnel toward teacher unions and draws some implications concerning the dynamics of labor relations in school systems. Teachers, principals, superintendents, and school board members responded to questions on what areas unions should be involved in, degree of satisfaction with the local,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining
Bacharach, Samuel B.; Mitchell, Stephen M. – 1983
This essay reviews quality of work life as a management technique and argues that quality-of-work-life programs, conceptualized multidimensionally, offer a unique mechanism for improving working conditions in schools and within districts. A brief analysis of major management ideologies concludes that some techniques advocated under the label of…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Satisfaction
Mitchell, Stephen M.; Bacharach, Samuel B. – 1983
Because research on job characteristics as predictors of turnover is of debatable relevance to the study of school board turnover, the research reported here examines the impact of variables capable of capturing the political context. In a survey including data from 263 board members from 83 school districts in New York State, the dependent…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role
Bacharach, Samuel B.; And Others – 1983
Conceptualizing militant behavior as a strategic choice involving collective action and occurring within a specific organizational context, this paper examines the impact of various organizational factors on elementary and secondary school teachers' willingness to engage in militant behavior. Teachers in 83 New York districts were surveyed as to…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Group Behavior, Labor Relations, Multiple Regression Analysis
Bacharach, Samuel B.; Mitchell, Stephen M. – 1983
Emphasizing a distinction between interpersonal versus intergroup behavior, this paper investigates the impact of interpersonal and intergroup characteristics on the individual's decision to rely on collective action. Four dimensions of interpersonal versus intergroup behavior--social mobility versus social change, personal deprivation versus…
Descriptors: Behavior, Educational Administration, Elementary School Teachers, Group Behavior
Bacharach, Samuel B. – 1983
Drawing on survey data from 83 New York school districts and case studies of 6 districts, the project reported here explores several aspects of schools and districts as organizations. The conceptual framework guiding the study emphasizes that educational organizations are not governed either by their structure or by the reactions of individuals,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Behavior, Boards of Education
