James A. Belasco

The Role of Ceremonials in Organizational Behavior

Deals with a study that explored the ceremonial aspects of personnel role with particular emphasis on organizational significance of ceremonials. Relevance of ceremonials for personnel administrators; Ceremonials of relevance for individual role performers; Role of ceremonials in the stability or equilibrium functions of a business organization. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

Determinants of Attitudinal Militancy Among Nurses and Teachers.

Determination of the factors that influenced the attitudes of white-collar workers toward joining unions and participating in strikes. Reasons for the intra- and inter-group variations in militancy; How the nature of occupations accounts for the levels of militancy; Relationship between personality traits and attitudinal militancy. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

Decisional Participation and Teacher Satisfaction

The following article examines the relationship between the levels of satisfaction experienced by teachers and their state of decisional participation. Following March and Simon and Katz and Kahn, satisfaction was defined as a willingness to remain within the current school organization despite inducement to leave. Decisional participation was defined as the discrepancy between current and preferred levels of participation.

Patterns of Teacher Participation in School System Decision Making

The following article examines the correlates of three separate con figurations of teacher participation in school system decision making. Defining decisional participation in terms of differences in the number of decisions in which teachers wish to participate and the number of deci sional instances in which they actually participate, the identified deci sional patterns are Deprivation, Equilibrium and Saturation. Four hy potheses relating personal and organizational characteristics to these decisional conditions are tested. Joseph A. Alutto is Associate Professor of Organizations and Human Resources at the State University of New York at Buffalo and James A. Belasco is Professor of Management at San Diego State College.

Line Staff Conflicts: Some Empirical Insights

Data reported in this paper indicate that staff-line conflicts may be less severe and essentially different in nature than had been previously assumed. Analysis indicates general agreement between ...

The American Association of University Professors: A private dispute settlement agency

Focuses on the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), a private dispute settlement agency in the United States. Definition of academic freedom; Nature of the AAUP and its basic structure that has shaped the dispute settlement procedures; How AAUP advocated academic freedom. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)