Dimensions of Administrative Performance

Abstract

-i-ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A detailed history of the management of a large research project would add much to the understanding of its purposes and design. The history of this project might be of special interest because of the manner in which the work of many researchers was coordinated to make an integrated project. This short account of how the study was supported, both by the efforts of many people and by grants of research funds, will not be such a detailed history; but it will help provide a setting for the report which follows. He believed that the technique might be useful in studying the work of many other types of administrators. John Hemphill worked with him to outline a proposal to study school administrators. As plans developed a

The Validity of the In‐basket Test as a Measure of Managerial Performance

“…Only four of the factors which had significant loadings on more than one category score seemed to be interpretable. These are listed below with their respective category scores and factor loadings: This factor is consistent with a second-order factor found in a study of school administrators (Hemphill, et al, 1961), which involves activities necessary in preparing to make decisions. Therefore, this factor was named Preparation for Decision.…”

“…This third factor was also almost identical with a factor which emerged in the study of school administrators (Hemphill, et al, 1961). It was named Organizing Systematically.…”

“…Procedures for scoring the in-basket test were developed, based on the early work of Frederiksen (1957) and Hemphill (1961). Three different approaches were used in arriving at scores : 1.…”