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Buckley, Jay; Mank, David – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 1994
This article addresses assumptions that currently guide personnel training and technical assistance in organizations providing services to people with disabilities. Implications of a quality improvement perspective are then considered as they apply to new perspectives on roles, on decision-making processes, and on evaluation. (DB)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Program Improvement, Quality Control, Staff Development
Ferketish, B. Jean; Hayden, John W. – Training and Development, 1992
Total Quality Management is not a fad. Human resource development must be aligned with the culture of continuous improvement to make it work. Changes may be necessary in hiring, promotion, and performance appraisal. (SK)
Descriptors: Human Resources, Job Performance, Organizational Change, Personnel Evaluation
Peer reviewedClayton, Peter – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1992
Provides an overview of Japanese management theory and suggests applications to library administration. Highlights include participative management; shared decision making; long-term objectives; organizational philosophy; staff training and human resource development; strategic planning; staffing issues; cooperation; quality control; and total…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Library Administration, Long Range Planning, Organizational Theories
Download full textAlbin, Richard W. – 1993
In order for schools and community agencies to develop the capacity to support persons with severe patterns of problem behaviors in typical community settings, they need to be knowledgeable about recent behavioral advances and have processes in place for implementation of these advances. This need creates a new challenge for inservice training of…
Descriptors: Attendants, Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Behavioral Science Research
Raskin, Judith – 1990
The report presents recommendations of a task force on the integration of hearing-impaired students, focusing on procedures for early identification, standards for educational programs, staff development and training, and program quality indicators. After brief sections giving definitions and the rationale for integration, preferred practices are…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicap Identification
Brew, Angela, Ed. – 1995
This collection of readings is intended to provide a source book on best practices in staff development in higher education within a British context. The 13 papers are grouped into three parts: part 1 presents the educational development tradition which has focused on development of staff as teachers; part 2 considers development of staff in…
Descriptors: Action Research, Administrator Education, Department Heads, Distance Education
Medick, Glenn A., Ed. – 1980
These proceedings contain twenty-one presentations made at the Second Annual Conference of the Council on the Continuing Education Unit (CEU). The opening speeches--Introduction to the CEU and Future Directions for a Learning Society--are followed by the panel discussion presentation, The CEU: Can It Withstand Scrutiny?, and two respondent…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Business, College Programs
