How colleges work : the cybernetics of academic organization and leadership / Robert Birnbaum.

Index and references included.

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Access Note:Faculty Development Collection.
Main Author: Birnbaum, Robert.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1988.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Jossey-Bass higher education series.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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