relatonships between organizational,work role,and behavioral variables are explored in sample of 787 senior British managers working in seventy-eight business organizations. the model of administrative reduction of variance in behavior developed by lnkson, Hicksort and Pugh in used as the framework of analysis. the model postulates thet two main strategies of administrattive control,structuring of activities and centralization,will give rise to conforming behavior and low levels of conflict through their prescription of roles. structuring of activities,however,is found to be associated with higher levels of conflict and hardly at all with conforming behavior, while centralization is associated with higher levels of conforming behavior,but not with conflict.In general the pattern of relateionships between the variables located at different levels of oraniztional analysis is more complex than previously envisaged