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Young, Stephen P.; Baker, Vicki L. – Management Teaching Review, 2023
Managers are essential in the strategy-making process and often use the launch of new products to aide in the advancement of their selected organizations. This article links current management curriculum with the role of the product manager, introduces students to the concepts of strategy and product management, and encourages students to think…
Descriptors: Management Development, Design, Decision Making, Costs
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Craig M. McGill – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2023
This paper seeks to better understand the workplace learning that occurs in the executive office (henceforth referred to as EO) of the NACADA: The Global Community of Academic Advising through a conversation with the association's Executive Director, Dr. Charlie Nutt. After providing a context of NACADA and its EO as well as my interview with…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Workplace Learning, Management Development, Administrators
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Allen, Tawannah G.; Jackson, Anthony; Johnson, Dustin Namath; Jordan, Derrick D. – Journal of Organizational and Educational Leadership, 2020
Childhood trauma is an all-too common factor in the lives of students and their families. Schools and communities across America are more likely to serve families that have experienced trauma (Anderson, 2016). Although trauma or toxic episodes can impact families across the economic spectrum, children living in poverty, in socially isolated areas,…
Descriptors: Principals, Management Development, Trauma, Administrator Role
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White, Alexandra – Management Teaching Review, 2020
Using the premise of a fictional earbud company, "EarWorm," students in an introductory management course become EarWorm managers who problem-solve and make decisions about the best choices for their company. This article outlines this engaging and participatory exercise in detail. Students are able to directly connect course concepts to…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Management Development, Introductory Courses, Teaching Methods
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Vornberg, James A. – NASSP Bulletin, 1988
Describes the Evaluating Your Faculty Evaluation instrument, a device to help principals clarify their role in the teacher evaluation process and to identify areas needing improvement. To improve instructional leadership skills, principals should involve faculty in criteria development, attend seminars, and constantly examine their own personal…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Instructional Leadership, Management Development, Principals
Oxbrow, Nigel – Information Outlook, 2000
Discussion of knowledge management (KM) explores the need for new roles and considers the skills mix required by the people and teams who design KM environments. Highlights include the knowledge economy; the roles of senior executives, planning teams, and implementation teams; business units; and the role of the information profession. (LRW)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Competence, Economic Factors, Information Scientists
Barnett, Bruce; Long, Claudia – Phi Delta Kappan, 1986
In 1983 the Far West Laboratory's instructional management program established Peer-Assisted Leadership (PAL), a unique professional development program for principals. No longer isolated, principals help each other develop analytical and other skills to become better instructional leaders. MLH)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluative Thinking, Leadership
Quinn, Terrence – Principal, 2003
Former principal suggests several ways to make principal's job more manageable: Revise the principal's job description, improve professional preparation, provide ongoing professional development, provide more support, improve management practices, and strengthen staff hiring. (PKP)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Elementary Education, Management Development
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Sange, Peggy – Educational Leadership, 1982
The Instructional Leadership Project of the Anne Arundel County (Maryland) Public Schools determined staff development needs in the district's secondary schools and designed a three-year program to help administrators, guidance personnel, and department chairpersons build the requisite staff development skills. (PGD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Department Heads, Faculty Development, Management Development
Dalin, Per – 1980
No country in Europe, with the exception of France, provides specially designed professional preservice programs to prepare educational administrators. This is partly because administrators have little power, being controlled at one level by central politicians and administrators and at the institutional level by teachers and teacher unions.…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Centralization, Change Agents
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Bamberger, Richard – Catalyst for Change, 1986
The Greater Capital District Region Principals' Center (New York) allows principals to meet in a collegial setting to share skills and practices and renew administrative energies. The program also helps principals manage stress, improve management skills, and discuss important concepts like instructional leadership and making teaching a true…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership, Management Development
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Bates, R. Clifton; Shank, Joanne G. – NASSP Bulletin, 1983
The Miamisburg (Ohio) City School District found that--through clarification of administrative style, definition of responsibilities, and acceptance by other administrators--the associate principal is a more effective school leader, administrative team member, and community liaison than is the usual assistant principal. (Author/RW)
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Assistant Principals, Elementary Secondary Education
Murphy, Joseph – School Administrator, 1993
Recently, the National Center for Educational Leadership surveyed 35 Kentucky superintendents about changing roles since passage of the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act. Results showed that superintendents were learning to lead from the background, enhancing all stakeholders' participation, and working hard to manage reform requirements. Many…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Role, Central Office Administrators, Educational Change
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Foote, Elizabeth – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1999
Offers information from the ERIC database regarding midlevel managers and their training needs. Includes research findings, advice for chairs, and descriptions of professional-development programs. (VWC)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Community Colleges, Leadership, Leadership Training
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Greenberg, Danna N.; Rollag, Keith – Journal of Management Education, 2005
In this article, the authors describe an e-mail-based simulation that helps students experience the fast-paced, complex world of the middle manager. In this electronic in-basket exercise, students assume the role of a district manager in a doughnut company as they respond to a rapid series of high- and low-priority e-mails ostensibly sent from…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Management Development, Simulation, Business Administration Education
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