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" The decision-makers : "
Lyle E. Schaller.
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BL
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1024694
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b779064
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| Main Entry
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Schaller, Lyle E.
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The decision-makers : : how to improve the quality of decision-making in the churches /\ Lyle E. Schaller.
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Nashville :: Abingdon Press,, ©1974.
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223 pages ;; 23 cm
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0687104025
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: 9780687104024
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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1. How Decisions Are Made -- Getting on the Agenda -- Consensus or Majority? -- Influencing Decisions -- "One of us" -- The Impact of Tradition -- Reducing the Power of Tradition -- The Location of Decision-Making -- Decisions or Choices? -- The Four Basic Decision Situations -- Types of Decisions -- Influences on the Process -- The Three Basic Power Centers -- Steps in Decision-Making -- 2. What Is Your Frame of Reference? -- The Real Lay-Clergy Gap -- When Were You Born? -- What About Original Sin? -- What About the Holy Spirit? -- Commitment and the Church -- Types of Churches -- How Large Is Small? -- the Rule of Forty -- 3. Pressures of Institutionalism -- Forms of Institutional Pressure -- In Defense of Denominationalism -- The Question of Scale -- What Are the Choices?
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4. Tinkering with the Machinery -- General Trends -- What's the Game? -- Issues and Problems -- 5. Polity, Politics, and Patronage -- Polity -- Politics -- Patronage -- Elections -- Interchurch Cooperation -- Duds and Bombs -- Turning Back the Clock -- Another Approach -- Weakness or Strength? -- What Are the Lessons? -- 7. Dollars and Decisions -- The Seven-Percent Crunch -- Benefits and Costs -- Who Gets the Subsidy? -- Criteria in the Allocation of resources -- 8. Friends, Pastors, Leaders, and Managers -- Perspectives and Methods -- Who's in Charge Here? -- Evaluating and Choosing Leaders -- Leadership Qualities -- Motivation or Manipulation? -- 9. Evaluation and Accountability -- Which System of Accountability? -- Another Alternative -- 10. The Context for Tomorrow -- The Neo-Fundamentalists -- Points of Tension.
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Church management.
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Decision making.
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Church management.
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Decision making.
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254
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BV652.S29
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