Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 9 Issue 1

Innovation in the Commonwealth: The International Intervisitation Program, Australia, 1970

W.G. WALKER

Among the recommendations of the first International Intervisitation Program held in North America in 1966 was the organization of a second program at a later date. The 1970…

Complexity, Adaptability and Job Satisfaction in High Schools: An Axiomatic Theory Applied

FRED. D. CARVER, THOMAS J. SERGIOVANNI

The major purpose of this study is to test the applicability of an eight‐variable axiomatic theory of organizations to the secondary school. Three corollaries, derived from the…

The Validation of a Morale Measuring Instrument

KEVIN R. SMITH

A morale questionnaire developed in Australia was subjected in the U.S.A. to a test of its validity by using a small sample of schools judged by experts to be of either high or…

Status Obeisance and Pupil Control Ideology

A. RAY HELSEL

Schools are viewed as a special type of organization in which neither the organization nor its clients can exercise choice in the organization‐client relationship. That pupil…

A “Democratic Authority” for Bureaucracy

MARGARET D. CAREY

After an analysis of Weberian theory the author describes recent “augmentations” to the bureaucratic model. Although accepted as a residual feature of organizations, bureaucracy…

Principal‐Staff Relations: Situational Mediator of Effectiveness

LEONARD B. WILLIAMS, WAYNE K. HOY

The “Contingency Model” of leadership effectiveness postulates that effectiveness of a group is contingent upon the relationship between leadership style and the degree to which…

A Note on the Evaluation of Teaching Performance

J. THOMSON

The author critically examines “The Evaluation of Teaching Performance” (Journal of Educational Administration. VII 2. October, 1969) by T. J. Moore and W. D. Neale. An…

The Management of Schools in New South Wales 1848–1880: Local Initiative Suppressed?

M.J. ELY

In his article “The Management of Schools in Ncw South Wales (1848–1886): Local Initiative Suppressed”, E. J. Payne has argued that “The distinctly centralised pattern of…