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Power, involvement, and organizational effectiveness in higher education

✍ Scribed by S. J. Mudiappasamy Devadoss; Rodney Muth

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1984
Tongue: English
Weight: 662 KB
Volume: 13
Category: Article
ISSN: 0018-1560
DOI: 10.1007/bf00137189

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✦ Synopsis

Focusing on theoretical and empirical relations among power variables, faculty job involvement, and college organizational effectiveness, this study found that power behaviors variously affect one's sense of job involvement and overall effectiveness of one's college. In particular, influence was found to be positively related to involvement and to effectiveness, while coercion was found to be negatively related to effectiveness but not related to involvement. These findings suggest that empirical integration of divergent normative theories is useful for understanding how academic administrators might behave to improve the performance of their institutions and provide support for earlier studies which have used the empirical model used here.

Higher educational organizations, because they are labor intensive, require considerable internal coordination. These coordinative activities must harmonize competing expectations and demands for alternative courses of action among various professional and bureaucratic orientations. Who decides which ends will dominate or be addressed, and how, becomes critical to the organization's functioning. Fundamental to such allocative processes is the issue of power, for power can be both the glue that holds social systems together and the solvent that dissolves them.

In all organizations, power affects behaviors, from who talks to whom to who decides an issue. Yet, what power is and how it works are not altogether clear. Theoreticians are divided in their views of the effects of power on social systems, and researchers are hard pressed to agree upon even a nominal definition of power. Does power promote order-peaceful coexistence among organizational subunits, consensus on goals and the means to them, and effective

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