The tools and resources in this book help school leaders seamlessly incorporate minority teacher recruitment and retention programs into current human-resources activities. With details about exemplary minority teacher recruitment and retention programs, this book also showcases strategies for how to replicate such programs in your own school or…

"Competencies in Organizational E-Learning: Concepts and Tools" provides a comprehensive view of the way competencies can be used to drive organizational e-learning, including the main conceptual elements, competency gap analysis, advanced related computing topics, the application of semantic Web technologies, and the integration of competencies…

The four papers which comprise this booklet on supervision are entitled a) Human Resources Supervision; b) The Case for Staff Development; c) The Advisory System and Supervision; and d) Beyond Accountability. The introduction presents previous views of supervision and discusses implications of recent teacher entrenchment. The first paper contrasts…

The current state of corporate education and the role played in it by U.S. colleges and universities are examined in this book, whose comprehensive framework brings both business and higher education into the process of upgrading and maintaining the skills of the American workforce. Attitudes, procedures, and policies that block increased…

The thirteen chapters of this book deal with the varied facets of supervision and give perspective on its history, organizational framework, strategies, models, and future prospects. Part 1 provides a brief historic sketch of supervision in the United States and then moves directly to the issue of evaluating and understanding teaching. The three…

This book is intended for the practitioner of evaluation or for the student about to do his or her first formal evaluation. Chapter 1 sets the role of evaluating within the context of an organization and discusses a critical role of evaluation: changing people, programs, and organizations. Chapter 2 discusses personnel appraisals from an…

This resource paper is concerned with the trend toward concentration of economic power in the hands of major job-providing organizations and the trend of occupational shifts occurring within the structure of advanced economies. It is part of a series designed to supplement existing texts and to fill a gap between research and accessible materials…

Drawing on the authors' extensive experience at Stanford University as well as the work of others, this book offers the first systematic approach to fiscal and human resource planning at colleges and universities. It shows how decision models can and should become an integral part of the planning process. The uses and misuses of planning models in…

Designed to be used as a classroom text, a book of readings, a reference, or a guide to rural development practitioners and decision makers, this book includes both general and sophisticated analyses relative to a comprehensive understanding of rural development fundamentals. Attempting to integrate the literature on micropolitan development into…

Within the context of UNESCO publications concerning science development, this first survey of country studies on Belgium, Chile, Egypt, Hungary, Nigeria and Sri Lanka gives information on the present state and organizational structure of social sciences. Evaluations of achievements which should contribute to the development of research and…

This book provides a detailed analysis of the development of education and training systems in Asia and the relationship with the process of economic growth. Focus is on four impoverished agrarian economies--Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan--that were transformed in little more than a generation into East Asian "tigers":…

Commissioned by the Office of Career Education (OCE), this monograph provides a perspective from which the OCE could (1) examine the human services education model implemented by the authors, and (2) consider its possible usefulness in OCE's future planning and development. The focus is on the potential alliance of career education and human…