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Gephart, Martha A.; Van Buren, Mark E. – Training and Development, 1996
Suggests that high-performance work systems create the synergy that lets companies gain and keep a competitive advantage. Identifies the components of high-performance work systems and critical action steps for implementation. Describes the results companies such as Xerox, Lever Brothers, and Corning Incorporated have achieved by using them. (JOW)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Corporations, Organizational Change, Program Implementation
Download full textMuse, Clyde – 1996
Arguing that workforce training is fundamental to the community college mission, this report discusses the necessity for re-examining related national policy and presents models for developing programs that meet current and future workforce training needs. Following an introduction highlighting community colleges' customer responsiveness,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Role, Community Colleges, Educational Change
Peer reviewedHopkins, David – Studies in Higher Education, 1984
It is argued that the failure of change in teacher education results from lack of understanding of the dynamics of change and the organizational features of teacher education, generally subject to external pressure. The role of institutional dimensions of problem solving, decision making, communications, goals, climate, and implementation are…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Change Strategies, Decision Making, Educational Change
Peterson, Clifford S. – 1993
The growing demand for colleges and universities to be accountable to their publics and the recognition that assessment is of little value without a systematic planning effort have led many institutions to turn to the concept of Total Quality Management (TQM). This pamphlet discusses the process of adapting TQM to a typical community college, a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Organization, College Planning, Community Colleges
Griego-Jones, Toni – 1995
A discussion of the role of bilingual education programs focuses on their function as a district-wide or school-wide reform effort, rather than as a discrete program within a larger system. It is proposed that this approach requires changes in the traditional roles of school personnel and thoughtful attention to how to involve all participants.…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Agency Cooperation, Bilingual Education Programs, Change Strategies
Chang, Paul Min Phang – 1980
The development of an off-campus program at the Science University in Penang, Malaysia, is described in this paper. The author sees this development as a case in which administrators mediated successfully in the development and implementation of an educational policy. The program was designed to provide off-campus study opportunities for employed…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Correspondence Study, Course Organization
Elmore, Richard F. – 1980
Addressed primarily to practitioners--legislators, administrators, and their staffs--this monograph is structured around a series of hypothetical exchanges between legislators and administrators concerning the implementation of a basic skills program. The author asserts that the hierarchical control that legislators traditionally rely on for…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Compliance (Legal), Decision Making
Malpica, Carlos – 1983
Twelve papers were presented at a 1980 International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) workshop on the generalization of educational innovations from the local to the national level. Six of these papers are published in this report, along with a substantial bibliography and an introductory chapter summarizing the papers and describing the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Problems, Administrator Role, Adoption (Ideas)
Direct linkGallucci, Chrysan; Knapp, Michael S.; Markholt, Anneke; Ort, Suzy – Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy, 2003
The convergence of two apparently opposite theories of urban educational reform is analyzed as it occurs in three middle schools in a New York City school district. The first theory, emphasizing small schools of choice, promotes close relationships between students and adults in distinctive school programs. The second--centralized, standards-based…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Middle Schools, Instructional Improvement, Educational Change
