This paper discusses the use of management by objectives for performance appraisal in education, examining its potential strengths and weaknesses. Among the potential strengths of the performance appraisal approach are the following: 1) it fosters staff development, since an administrator's performance is evaluated according to how well his…

Two hypotheses guided these studies: (1) administrators with a greater risk propensity will develop more innovative job targets in a management-by-objectives program than will those with less risk propensity, and (2) educators' risk propensity will increase after group discussion. The Choice Dilemmas measure, content analysis of goal statements,…

This paper discusses the utility, versatility, and pros and cons of the formal performance appraisal as one of the tools of management by objectives (MBO). Rather than rating the traits of an employee, performance appraisal based on MBO rates an employee's achievements toward both his professional goals and institutional goals. The paper outlines…

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…

The Superintendent of Pennridge School District in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, evaluates the local district administrators for merit pay twice a year based on management by objective concepts. Working individually and in teams, the administrators develop common and individual objectives. These objectives are assigned point values by secret…

In 1975, Delta College began a project to prepare a set of institutional goals and a mission statement for consideration and adoption by the college Senate and Board of Trustees, and to identify those goals that should take priority over the following five years. All areas of the college were represented on the goal development committee, and to…

The Portland Public Schools have developed a model to evaluate support services of the system. Services rendered are defined by goal statements and evaluated by recipients of the services. A computer-based system maintains the service goals of each support unit, selects goals, prepares an appropriate questionnaire for each of 66 different groups…

This paper presents a management by objectives system in three sections: a method of developing the organization's goals and objectives, a method for the development of personal job functions and performance objectives, and a method for the establishment of performance evaluation sessions. Key terms are defined. A rationale for developing…

Management systems have been adapted for educational administration in response to the need for quality of educational opportunity, collective bargaining, school district consolidation, decreasing enrollments, accountability laws, limited financial resources, and participatory decision-making. Management systems adapted, not adopted, from business…