Document Type

Report

Publication Date

6-1986

Subjects

Local transit -- Management, Transportation agencies -- Planning, Transportation agencies -- Officials and employees -- Recruitment

Physical Description

126 pages

Abstract

This study reports on a survey sent to 493 transit agencies in 1983. The survey instrument requested information concerning agency institutional type, operating characteristics, service area population, employment, management pool, finances and recruitment problems for the period 1979-1983. Surveys were returned by 207 agencies, 171 of which were accompanied by organization charts. The purpose of the survey was to solicit institutional information concerning agency structure to serve as background information for a subsequent study of respondent agency managers.

The study results describe a managerial context that si extremely diverse across agency characteristics, change in attributes and organizational patterns. Only the thread of hierarchy seems to typify agencies. Size, location, population served, and possibly revenue do not seem to dictate functional requirements for management structure.

Description

Catalog Number PR021.

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/18072

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