| The study investigated the relationship between five organizational structures and four faculty roles at liberal arts colleges and universities in U.S. The five models of organizational structures used in the study were: Bureaucratic structures, collegial structures, political structures, symbolic structures, and systemic structures. Boyer's (1990) four domains of scholarship used in the study: Scholarship of discovery, scholarship of integration, scholarship of application, and scholarship of teaching.;Faculty from high and low consensus disciplines included in the study (Biglan, 1973). The total usable response rate was 37 percent. Faculty responses to the surveys factor analyzed. Four organizational structures found to be reliable and they were bureaucratic, political, symbolic, and systemic. Four indices for each one of the four domains of scholarship were created. The independent variables used in the study were background characteristics, career-environmental characteristics, and organizational structure variables.;The study found a relationship between the three organizational structure variables and the three domain of scholarship. Specifically, bureaucratic structures were positively associated with scholarship of integration, scholarship of application, and scholarship of teaching. Symbolic structures were also positively associated with scholarship of application and teaching. Systemic structures were negatively associated with scholarship of application. Finally, the significance of the findings for theory and practice, suggestions for future research, and limitations were presented. |
