To recognize high performance administrators, a South Carolina school district has added a performance incentive to the basic salary plan for administrators. Criteria for comparing job targets that are selected by the administrators are based on scope, complexity, and anticipated impact. (MLF)

Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Illinois has, in one document, a comprehensive "one-and-five" year plan that is designed to develop instructional and program needs and relate them to anticipated revenue as a foundation for the coming year's budget. (Author/MLF)

Drawing from the experiences of Delgado Community College (DCC) in Louisiana, this manual offers guidance on choosing and implementing an institutional planning system. Section 1 offers introductory comments on planning, educators' reluctance to embrace the management systems of the private sector, and the growing recognition of the importance of…

Stating that management training programs usually contribute little to organization results because they focus on improving personal characteristics, the authors describe a training and development strategy and training design to produce performance-improvement results. Programs using this strategy are described. (MF)

Outlines factors that led to success and to failure in merit pay programs for administrators. Briefly describes merit pay programs in several school districts. (IRT)

In spring 1981, a need was identified for the improvement of the faculty evaluation system at Brunswick Junior College (BJC). A committee, formed to study methods of faculty evaluation, recommended an evaluation system based on Modified Management by Objectives (MMBO). Subsequent to approval by the college administration, the new system was…

The staff performance evaluation program of McGill University Libraries is based on a hierarchy of objectives in which individual and unit goals are compatible with department, area library, and overall library system goals. Individual goals and performance standards are formulated jointly by the staff member and his or her supervisor according to…

Describes a systems approach to administrator evaluation that incorporates performance appraisal and management by objectives. (Author/JM)

In a small college, application of management by objectives concepts for planning and management have been used in three areas: personnel, programs, and budget. Interrelationships of these areas are discussed. Procedures are explained and results are illustrated so that these concepts can be used in other circumstances. (MSE)

Collected here are a number of varied materials on school supervision intended for secondary principals. These include a brief description of a presentation concerning school supervision; a number of visual aids, checklists, charts, and outlines used in the presentation; a short paper on the logistics of Supervision through Educational Management…

Describes an installation of Comprehensive Instructional Management System (CIMS), a management information system for the instruction of mathematics in a New York school system. Suggests that CIMS has yielded dramatic gains in mathematics performance. (PK)

Describes some characteristics of the modern organization that affect contract or negotiated management and identifies changes in approach relevant for library and information organizations management now and in the future. (EM)

Chandler (Arizona) High School has reported a dramatic increase in student achievement levels since implementing a number of management, curriculum, and discipline policy changes. Among the program changes that contributed to these gains are: (1) creation of a positive school environment, with high expectations for teachers, emphasis on high…

Seven articles on library reference services highlight reference obsolescence in academic libraries, major studies of unobtrusive reference tests, methods for evaluating reference desk performance, reference interview evaluation, problems of reference desk control, online searching by end users, and reference collection development in…

This report summarizes recent Cincinnati (Ohio) Public Schools efforts to develop systematic approaches to generating information for school and district administrators. The result of these efforts is a School-Based Information System (SIS) that provides the district's 57 elementary and 22 secondary schools with information in such areas as…