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Peer reviewedAnderson, Joyce S. – Community and Junior College Journal, 1984
Argues that theories of management and administration should be put into practice in the same academic institutions in which they were born, as they have the same applicability for college administrators as corporate managers. (DMM)
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Principles, College Administration, Management Development
Peer reviewedRodrick, Lewis – NASSP Bulletin, 1986
Assistant principals are important people, reminds this principal, who asks his colleagues to probe how they use their assistants. He follows with several suggestions about how to improve the situation. (Author/TE)
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Assistant Principals
Summers, Patricia M. – 1985
By using a collegial, "power-with" supervisory model that balances both institutional and individual needs, a manager can realize greater success in selecting, motivating, and retaining clerical staffers. Candor, accessibility, recognition, and two-way communication are the hallmarks of this participatory management model, with the goal of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Clerical Workers, Employees
Freed, A. Maria; Sheppard, N. Alan – 1983
Extending research findings that strong administrative leadership is the most important influence on a school system, this paper argues that improved leadership, aided by models of leadership style and behavior, can improve instructional effectiveness. Because a significant correlation has been found between teachers' behavior and student…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership Styles
Bottoni, Wayne R. – 1984
This speech proposes an approach to evaluating principals that incorporates strategies for motivating principals to improve. The first step is to abandon the "middle management mentality" by granting full decision-making authority to principals over matters directly pertaining to their schools, such as teacher employment, use of allocated funds,…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textBerliner, David C. – 1983
This exploration of an analogic conception of classrooms as workplaces and teachers as executives is divided into five parts. The origin of the author's interest in executive and management skills in teaching is described first. This is followed by analysis of the unfortunate history of the relationship between business management and education.…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Huddleston, Kenneth F. – 1982
In order to determine adequately how community and technical colleges can work with business and industry to meet the training needs of the existing work force, one must first understand the relationship between lagging productivity and the national economy. In the short run, lagging productivity increases inflation and unemployment, lessens our…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Economic Development, Educational Cooperation, Educational Needs
