Bibliography - a Selection
| Date | 01 December 1976 |
| Published date | 01 December 1976 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002085237604200412 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
BIBLIOGRAPHY -
A
SELECTION
ADKINS,
Douglas
L.,
The
Great
American
Degree
Machine.
An
Economic
Analysis
of
the
Human
Resource
Output
of
Higher
Education.
Berkeley,
Carnegie
Council
on
Policy
Studies
in
Higher
Educa-
tion,
1975.
xxiii
&
663
pages, ~ 14.
This
report
originated
from
doctoral
dissertation
research
at
the
University
of
California,
Berkeley.
It
presents
estimates,
prepared
with
the
help
of
a
com-
puter,
of
the
following
series :
(a)
the
annual
academic
degree
output
of
United
States
universities,
1890-
1971,
(b)
the
age
distributions
of
degree
recipients,
certain
survey
years,
(c)
the
transition
frequencies
and
time-lapse
distributions
between
lower
and
higher
degrees,
and
(d)
the
United
States
degree-holder
population,
annually
1930-1971.
Each
series
is
disag-
gregated
by
two
sexes,
forty-four
academic
specialties,
and
three
degree
levels.
The
degree-holder
popula-
tion
is
also
disaggregated
by
age.
The
author
critically
examines
the
data
he
has
collected.
The
work
is
likely
to
interest
economists,
specialists
in
the
history
of
higher
education,
sociologists,
and
political
scientists.
ANNA,
Henry
J.,
Task
Groups
and
Linkages
in
Complex
Organizations : A
Case
Study
of
NASA.
Beverly
Hills/London,
Sage,
1976.
64
pages,
~1.75.
The
purpose
of
this
paper,
No.
03-029
in
the
Ad-
ministrative
&
Policy
Studies
series,
is
to
examine
some
of
the
subunits
of
a
specific
complex
organization
like
NASA
through
the
application
of
a
modern
organization
theory,
the
matrix
approach.
The
study
is
based
on
a
series
of
interviews
with
NASA
project
managers
and
associated
personnel.
The
matrix
ap-
proach
provides
propositions
on
the
group
structure
and
process,
group
roles
and
style,
and
group
norms.
It
illuminates
the
area
of
the
relations
between
the
working
groups
and
the
administrative
system,
as
also
between
task
and
functional
groups.
ANSTEY,
Edgar,
FLETCHER,
Clive,
and
WALKER,
James,
Staff
Appraisal
and
Development.
London,
Allen
&
Unwin,
1976.
242
pages,
~8.75.
The
Director
of
the
Behavioural
Sciences
Research
Division
of
the
British
Civil
Service
Department
and
two
of
his
colleagues
have
prepared
this
book
which
is
based
on
research
over
a
period
of
five
years
in
collaboration
with
senior
administrators
in
the
Depart-
ment
and
with
the
Civil
Service
unions.
They
have
also
obtained
information
from
seventeen
organiza-
tions
in
the
public
and
private
sectors.
The
objections
to
staff
appraisal
and
the
difficulties
involved
are
clearly
dealt
with
and
the
need
for
training
in
appraisal
interviewing
is
emphasized.
The
book
is
mainly
con-
cerned
with
methods
centred
on
interviews
which
aim
at
staff
development,
improved
performance,
and
career
guidance
as
well
as
appraisal.
An
appropriate
selection
of
staff
reports
and
related
forms
is
appended.
BALUTIS,
Alan
P.
and
HEAPHEY,
James
J.,
Public
Administration
and
the
Legislative
Process.
Beverly
Hills/London,
Sage,
1974.
58
pages,
~1.50.
The
role
played
by
the
staff
in
the
New
York
State
Legislature
is
examined
from
a
public
administration,
particularly
organization
theory,
point
of
view
in
this
No.
03-024
of
the
Administrative
&
Policy
Studies
series.
It
is
stressed
that
the
principles
of
public
administration
should
be
applied
to
the
study
of
legislative
institutions
and
not
only
to
that
of
executive
institutions.
The
main
part
of
the
study
deals
with
the
functions
of
the
statf :
intelligence,
integration,
innovation,
and
influence.
BARRATT,
John
et
al.
(Editors),
Strategy jor
Develop-
ment.
London,
Macmillan,
1976.
viii
&
324
pages,
£10.
The
volume
contains
an
introduction
by
Kurt
Glaser
and
a
collection
of
sixteen
papers
presented
at
the
Conference
on
Strategy
for
Development
held
in
December
1974
at
Johannesburg,
at
which
the
discus-
sions
focused
mainly
on
the
developing
areas
of
Southern
Africa,
though
experience
from
other
parts
of
the
world,
including
Taiwan
and
the
Philippines,
was
also
examined.
The
aim
of
the
conference
was
to
consider
problems
and
opportunities
arising
in
the
planning
and
implementation
of
programmes
and
projects
in
the
fields
of
agriculture,
industrialisation
and
development
administration,
with
special
emphasis
on
techniques
of
motivating
and
involving
the
people
concerned.
BENNETT,
Spencer
and
BowEits,
David,
An
Introduc-
tion
to
Multivariate
Techniques
for
Social
and
Be-
havioural
Sciences.
London,
Macmillan,
1976.
xii
&
156
pages,
£ 10.
Multivariate
analysis
is
a
collection
of
statistical
techniques
which
have
greatly
extended
in
recent
years.
This
introduction
is
intended
for
social
and
behavioural
scientists,
both
students
and
practitioners,
who
are
not
familiar
with
the
use
of
matrix
algebra.
But
the
scope
of
the
text
is.
broader
than
multivariate
statistics.
A
wide
range
of
potentially
useful
techniques
have
been
included.
After
an
introduction,
six
chapters
deal
with
factor
analysis,
multiple-group
analysis,
multidimensional
scaling,
and
discriminant
analysis,
that
is
with
variables
measured
in
quantitative
terms.
Chapter
8
discusses
the
analysis
of
problems
formulated
in
terms
of
qualitative
data.
The
last chapter
is
an
overview
of
the
choice
of
techniques
and
the
inter-
relations
between
them.
The
book
will
be
useful
for
advanced
undergraduate
students,
postgraduate
stu-
dents,
and
teachers
of
quantitative
methods.
BERNSTEIN,
Samuel
J.
(Editor),
Computers
In
Public
Administration :
An
International
Perspective.
A
Reader.
New
York,
Pergamon
Press,
1975.
xxi
&
477
pages,
$30.
The
reader
contains
nineteen
extracts
from
United
States
and
four
from
European
sources
organized
under
the
following
headings :
An
overall
computer
development
and
management
information
policy,
Managerial
administrative
areas,
The
functional
ad-
ministrative
areas,
The
learning
and
utilization
of
the
computer,
and
The
state
of
the
art.
The
volume
concentrates
on
the
different
computer-based
systems
and
applications.
A
general
knowledge
of
computers
and
statistics
is
assumed
for
understanding
the
models
described,
and
it
is
shown
how
computers
are
now
being
and
may
be
used
to
improve
the
management
processes
in
public
administration.
The
conclusion
points
out
that
a
special
effort
should
be
made
at
three
levels :
data
management
and
organization,
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