Abstract
The purpose of this study was to clarify the effect of some organizational properties on the efficiency of public administration of sport in municiparities in terms of contingency views. That is, this study was to investigate the relation between the task environment and the organizational properties and its efficiency. Task environment was defined as the environmental uncertainty which were relevant or potentially relevant to the goal setting and goal attainment of public administration,and measured from two dimensions; the simple-complex dimension and the static-dynamic dimension. Organizational properties was discussed from the degree of precision of the action program, the distribution of power, the tye of communication and integration. The questionnaire was conducted to 53 municipalities in Kochi Prefecture from August to October in 1984. Though it couldn't find a specific properties according to each task environment, public administration of sport that had good efficiency indicated the following properties; (1) they tend to have an organic or flexible action program irrespective of task environment. (2) with regard to the distribution of power, it was indicated that the council of sport promotion, sport leader in community (Taiiku Shidoiin) and the section chief of sport administration exerted a strong effect on the sport services. (3) they had frequent communication with other organization in public facilities and the top of Board of Education. (4) they tried to advice and subsidize to organization for sport in communitiy, consequently they were integrated with the authorities and the other organization concerned.
