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Seymour, Daniel – New Directions for Higher Education, 1994
This article urges leaders at institutions of higher education to analyze the decision to pursue a Total Quality Management improvement strategy in the same way as any other strategy--as a return on investment. Evidence of costs and benefits of TQM from industry and campus is summarized, and barriers to a "return on quality investment" mindset are…
Descriptors: College Administration, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Higher Education
Wholeben, Brent E. – School Business Affairs, 1993
Operations research (OR) is the use of measurable interrelationships to explain the predictable links between measured phenomena and variable outcomes. Provides examples of OR techniques in school business management. (MLF)
Descriptors: Crisis Management, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Operations Research

Fisher, James L. – Educational Record, 1993
Although the Total Quality Management (TQM) system offers an admirable goal and offers promise of organizational improvement, the process it recommends is not a panacea and may only forestall the conflict inevitably arising from decision making, individual accountability, and organizational change. The approach is being abandoned by some. (MSE)
Descriptors: Accountability, Change Strategies, College Administration, Conflict Resolution

DeCosmo, Richard D.; And Others – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1991
This article details the four-year implementation of Total Quality Management at Delaware County Community College (Pennsylvania) to conserve resources, improve effectiveness, assure quality, and increase participation in decision making. Reported are planning, execution, and monitoring activities of the Implementation Team; specific problems…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, Community Colleges, Competition
1994
This reference guide serves as an index for an 11-volume series of handbooks that offer guidelines to school administrators on the application and implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM) principles to education--Total Quality Education (TQE). The topics are listed in alphabetical order to show the corresponding volume and page number(s).…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Change, Educational Planning, Educational Quality
Losak, John; Scigliano, John – 1994
This paper provides a framework for an institutional self study integrating total quality management (TQM) and institutional effectiveness (IE) models within the context of standards of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It highlights the common dimensions in general management principles between TQM and IE and the strategies for…
Descriptors: College Administration, Decision Making, Higher Education, Institutional Administration
la Grange, AC de W – 1996
This paper integrates principles of Total Quality Management (TQM) with those of investment for institutions of higher education. TQM with investment budgeting as one of its critical tools is seen to be essential for effective management in a time of decreasing financial resources. A process for investment budgeting is outlined and explained…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Administration, College Planning, Colleges
Sagor, Richard; Barnett, Bruce G. – 1994
This book offers guidelines for school administrators who want to apply the principles of Total Quality Management to the organizational challenges faced by schools. Based on W. Edwards Deming's nine attributes of successful leadership, the book shows how to make the transformation to instructional leadership based on Total Quality Education…
Descriptors: Action Research, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Decision Making
Marchese, Ted – AAHE Bulletin, 1991
This introduction to the application of Total Quality Management (TQM) on college campuses first reviews the development and application of TQM principles in Japanese industries and recent implementation in industries and the Federal Government in the United States. Twelve principles of TQM are then identified: (1) a focus on quality; (2)…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes, Change Strategies, Cost Effectiveness
Chamberlain, Don; And Others – Business Officer, 1994
College administrators often overlook the valuable assistance than can be provided by the college internal audit unit as they implement principles of total quality management. This unit is in a good position to conduct performance audits of departments and programs, the results of which can provide meaningful information to assist in…
Descriptors: Accounting, College Administration, College Outcomes Assessment, Decision Making
Cope, Robert; Sherr, Lawrence – 1991
This publication offers suggestions for improving management so that organizations, especially further education institutions, will be more effective. The conceptual bases for the book are three "tool chests": strategic thinking, speedy decision, and total quality improvement. Chapter 1 clarifies strategic planning and provides case…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Continuing Education, Decision Making, Educational Administration
Burton, Jennus L. – Business Officer, 1993
Arizona State University has developed a model for managing declining resources in administrative service functions. A variant of Total Quality Management, it involves clarification of administrative unit functions, unit self-examination, establishment of program priorities, environmental scanning, creation of an infrastructure to manage change,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, College Administration, College Planning
Freed, Jann E.; And Others – 1997
This digest, based on a larger report of the same title, summarizes principles for improving quality in higher education institutions. Emphasis is on the effect of the principles when they are used holistically to create a culture of academic excellence. The quality principles are based on the conceptual framework of total quality management (TQM)…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Decision Making, Educational Quality, Efficiency
Curry, Donna; Kirk, Nancy – 1991
Intended for use in conjunction with guidance and instruction from a teacher or tutor, this guide provides an overview of the philosophy of quality as well as some tools used in business and industry today. Each of four sections consists of a teacher explanation of the topics followed by student worksheets with annotated teacher keys. The first…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Arithmetic, Corporate Education

Glover, Robert H. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1993
In college administration, a climate for adaptive change should be created using the philosophy, processes, and tools of Total Quality Management in combination with other management innovations. An enterprise-wide infrastructure for distributing information on demand for decision makers to monitor institutional performance should be built.…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Costs, Decision Making
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