Changes in processes, problems, costs, and benefits develop when the decision-making prerogatives in a school are shifted from a hierarchical pattern to a participative one in which the principal shares power with teachers. A critical variable related to the success of a participative de cision-making mode is the congruence between attitude set-behavior mix of the principal and the teachers. Arthur Blumberg is Associate Professor of Education, Syracuse University, William Wayson is Principal of the Martin Luther King Elementary School, Syracuse, N.Y., and Wilford Weber is Assistant Professor of Education, Syracuse University.
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