ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ADMINISTRATIVE TRAINING PROGRAMS: PROFESSORS AND THEIR WORK ENVIRONMENTS
| Published date | 01 February 1975 |
| Date | 01 February 1975 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009733 |
| Pages | 54-61 |
| Author | LLOYD K. BISHOP,CARL R. STEINHOFF |
| Subject Matter | Education |
THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION
VOLUME XIII, NUMBER 2 OCTOBER, 1975
ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AD-
MINISTRATIVE TRAINING PROGRAMS: PROFESSORS
AND THEIR WORK ENVIRONMENTS
LLOYD K. BISHOP AND CARL R. STEINHOFF
This paper presents the findings of
a
nation-wide
survey
in the USA of
the
organizational
environment, or climate, of UCEA affiliated preparation programs in educational ad-
ministration. A factor structure extracted from
the
responses of
202
professors
is
described
along with a data analysis of the forty-two institutions they represent. Implications to
program development are also made based on an analysis of variance among the par-
ticipating institutions. This research
was supported in
part
by the School
of
Education,
New
York University, and the Staff Affiliate Program of UCEA.
INTRODUCTION
The
general
interest in the behavioral sciences to describe
and
better
un-
derstand the consequences of organizational life
and
its effect upon the in-
dividual provided the motivation for this
study.
It is
an
extension of
several
earlier studies conducted by Stern,1 Steinhoff and Bishop,2 and others
employing the
Organizational Climate Index
(OCI) to map
the
terrain and
generally describe organizational variables unique to a study population.
Similar to previous studies of educational and industrial settings this in-
vestigation applied the OCI methodology in order to analyze the work en-
vironments of professors in graduate departments of educational ad-
ministration affiliated with UCEA.3 This paper will describe the
organizational environment, or climate, as perceived by professors and
generally report an analysis
based on the
development of
a
factor structure
unique to this population.
CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH
The concept of organizational climate as a means of characterizing
organizational variables has received a great deal of attention in the
literature of both education and management in recent years.4 This term
has been used as
a
general one referring to particular specifications of
the
sociopsychological aspects of the organization. Of particular importance
in developing models for operationalizing conceptualizations for describ-
ing organizations is the work of H.A. Murray.5 Murray developed a
psychologically-based taxonomy which can be used to classify the
LLOYD
K.
BISHOP and CARL R. STEINHOFF are Professors of Educational Adminis-
tration,
New York University. Professor Bishop(Ed.D. Syracuse)
has published
extensively in
the area of individualized learning. Professor Steinhoff's (Ph.D. Claremont) main areas of
research and publication are organizational climate and change.
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