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This research was supported by grants from the Social Science Faculty in the Hebrew University and the F. A. Schonbrunn Research Fund. The authors wish to express their thanks to Sheila BenTuvia of the Consulting Service, Statistics Department, Hebrew University, for her aid in the data analysis, to Robert Frankenburg for his assistance in the administration of the experiments, and to an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments.

Organizational systems and engineering groups: a comparative study of two technical groups in industry , Organizational systems and engineering groups: a comparative study of two technical groups in indust... , کتابخانه دیجیتال و فن آوری اطلاعات دانشگاه امام صادق(ع)

Science in India: Institution-Building and the Organizational Systems for Research and Development . By Ward Morehouse. Pp. xvi + 144. (Popular Prakashan: Bombay, 1971.) Rs 25. Physics in India: Challenges and Opportunities . (Proceedings of the Conference on Physics, Education and Research, June 1970.) Pp. iv + 323. (National Council for Science Education: New Delhi, 1971.) Rs 10; $4; £1.25.

Retail dealers whose major business is in the products of a single manufacturer form an organizational system with that manufacturer. For this system to operate effectively as an integrated whole and to compete with similar manufacturer-dealer systems, certain administrative functions must be performed for the system, over and above the administration of the formally separate manufacturer and dealer organizations. This paper examines the interdependent roles of manufacturer and dealer and the administrative attempts to control quasiindependent units.' The author is a member of the faculty of the Department of Business Administration at Kansas State College.

This study is concerned with the relationship between Halpin and Croft's organizational climates as classified by the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire and Likert and Likert's organizational systems as classified by the teacher form of the Profile of a School Questionnaire. The positively significant relationship found between these two instruments supports the concept that the two models from which these instruments were developed are comparable.1

The organizational variables of complexity, centralization, formalization, stratification, adaptiveness, production, efficiency, and job satisfaction are defined. These variables are interrelated in seven basic propositions as suggested by the theoretical writings of Weber, Barnard, and Thompson. Then the seven propositions are used to derive twentyone corollaries and to define two ideal types of organizational systems. A limits proposition is suggested. The axiomatic theory, consisting of twenty-nine hypotheses, is tested against a number of research studies and receives considerable support. It appears useful in analyzing a number of organizational problems, including organizational change, centralization versus decentralization, and morale. The author is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin.