How colleges work : the cybernetics of academic organization and leadership /
Index and references included.
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| Language: | English |
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San Francisco :
Jossey-Bass,
1988.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Jossey-Bass higher education series.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Understanding colleges and universities as organizations
- Problems of governance, management, and leadership in academic institutions
- Thinking in systems and circles: the structure and dynamics of academic organizations
- Making decisions and making sense: the administrator's role
- Part 2: Models of organizational functioning
- The collegial institution: sharing power and values in a community of equals
- The bureaucratic institution: rationalizing structure and decision making
- The political institution: competing for power and resources
- The anarchical institution: finding meaning in a community of autonomous actors
- Part 3: Integrating the models
- The cybernetic institution: providing direction through self-regulation
- Effective administration and leadership in the cybernetic institution.