NOTES ON THEORY AND RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION: AN INVESTIGATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL ADAPTATION AND THE COMMUNICATION OF POWER AND AUTHORITY

INTRODUCTION An administrator is, whether he is aware of the fact or not, continually making predictions — predictions about market trends, demographic changes, life expectancy of physical plant, performance of personnel, and probable outcomes of various courses of action, to mention just a few. Ultimately, an administrator's predictions are limited by the parameters of his own relevant abilities, skills, attitudes and knowledge, however, predictions are also limited, in a very pragmatic sense, by their consonance with patterned sequences of events which conform to natural laws, and by the presence of imposed controls which define and confine the relationships between inputs, processes and outputs.