The Costs of

Cleveland, Harlan

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ERIC Number: EJ129606

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1975

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The Costs of "Openness"

Cleveland, Harlan

AGB Reports, 17, 5, 7-10, Mar/Apr 75

The author argues that very wide consultation tends to discourage innovation and favor stand-pattism and that the very great benefits of openness and wide participation are flawed by apathy and non-participation, by muscle-binding legalisms, by processes which polarize two adversary sides, and by the encouragement of mediocrity. (JT)

Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems, Administrator Role, Consultants, Decision Making, Educational Administration, Higher Education, Participation, Policy Formation

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