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Download full textBartunek, Jean M. – 1979
This study investigated the effects of participation training, agreement, and decision importance on teachers' desires for participation in decision-making and their perceptions that participation would increase decision effectiveness. Results indicated that teachers who had received participation training preferred less participation in…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Management by Objectives, Organizational Development, Participant Satisfaction
Dossett, Dennis L.; And Others – 1978
Goal-setting has been accepted as an effective motivational tool. Whether goals should be participatively set or assigned was examined by holding goal difficulty constant in an investigation based on previous results which suggested that participants in goal-setting set more difficult goals than those for whom goals are assigned. Results suggest…
Descriptors: Clerical Workers, Difficulty Level, Employer Employee Relationship, Job Performance
Webster, Duane E. – 1977
The use of analytical models and quantitative methods for both short- and long-range problem solving offer library managers an excellent opportunity to improve and rationalize decision-making for strategic and organizational planning. The first step is to identify the problems confronting the library and understand its current capabilities.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Library Administration, Library Automation, Library Planning
Box, George – 1989
Quality improvement in the workplace via scientific techniques of research and training is discussed. Topics addressed include time factors, salient problems and assignable causes, informed observation, experimental design, study location, and training. Requirements for change in the workplace include: change in management attitudes and structure…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Job Training, Management by Objectives, Management Development
McDowell, Earl E. – 1986
An exploratory study examined how administrators (department heads/chairs) perceive faculty members, as well as themselves, in the performance appraisal interview. Subjects, 450 faculty members and 200 administrators at a midwestern university, answered an Appraisal Interview Questionnaire in which they rated administrator performance, content and…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Decision Making Skills, Department Heads, Employer Employee Relationship
Baldridge, J. Victor; Tierney, Michael L. – 1979
A nationwide longitudinal study was undertaken by the Higher Education Research Institute in Los Angeles to study the impact of Exxon Education Foundation's Resource Allocation Management Program on the 49 institutions receiving grants under the program. The focus was the behavioral consequences of management changes for administrators, staff, and…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing
