The management team concept in school administration is currently being adopted by school districts throughout the United States. Basically, the concept refers to the involvement of all levels of management in the planning, implementing, and decisionmaking process when such activities directly affect their professional responsibilities. One key factor that may affect the degree and effectiveness of this management involvement is the pattern of organizational structure at the management level. This monograph reports on three distinct, yet related, pieces of research that focused on the relationship between identifiable management team patterns of school organizational structure in numerous public school systems in the Metropolitan Detroit area and (1) the involvement in the decisionmaking process, (2) the leader behavior and superintendents, and (3) the professional welfare of administrators. A selected bibliography is included. (Author)