What do we mean when we speak of the organization of household activities? How do home managers vary in their styles of organization? How can these styles be identified ? The answers to these questions are suggested by research in which a valid and reliable instrument was developed to identify the organizational styles of home managers. Through the use of factor analysis as the statistical procedure, four organizational components, or factors, were identified as sources of variations among home managers and were tentatively named Task Standardization, Task Assignment, Task Regularization, and Task Arrangement. This paper includes a description of the conceptualization and development of the Organizational Activities Index, a discussion of factor analysis as a research tool and means of identifying components of home task organization, and suggestions for further research and use of the Organizational Activities Index.
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