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Etherington, Edwin D.; Vancil, Richard F. – Coll Univ Bus, 1969
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Policy, Budgeting, Decision Making
Tucson Public Schools, AZ. – 1971
This publication defines and illustrates approximately 80 terms and concepts that are crucial to understanding the Educational Management Project, a comprehensive inservice program for educational administrators that was developed by the Tucson Public Schools. Annotations for the individual terms vary in length from approximately 30 to 350 words…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, Administrative Principles, Decision Making
Peer reviewedIrwin, Patrick H. – Long Range Planning, 1974
Strategic management is concerned with determining the long-term goals of an enterprise and deciding on the most appropriate course of action to achieve them. Strategic planning can revive the entrepreneurial characteristics of a business whose survival otherwise could be threatened. (Author/WM)
Descriptors: Administration, Decision Making, Futures (of Society), Management Systems
Peer reviewedO'Hanlon, James – Curriculum Theory Network, 1973
Presents descriptions of the management, systematic, and open-access curriculum development models to identify the decisionmaking bases, operational processes, evaluation requirements, and curriculum control methods of each model. A possible relationship among these models is then suggested. (Author/DN)
Descriptors: Administration, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Research
Download full textBowen, Howard R. – NACUBO Professional File, 1977
Academic planning in higher education is strongly influenced by business management theories and practices. The author questions the usefulness of this approach because the nature of higher education differs from the nature of a profit-making business. However, rational planning to achieve efficiency is relevant if efficiency is not confined to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, Decision Making, Educational Planning
Whittenburg, John A.; Schumacher, Anne W. – 1968
One of the responsibilities of the National Science Foundation (NSF) is to support the effective dissemination of scientific information. The performance of this responsibility requires NSF to evaluate alternative information systems/services which are proposed for this purpose. This responsibility necessitates making decisions which are similar…
Descriptors: Administration, Decision Making, Guidelines, Information Systems
Tucson Public Schools, AZ. – 1971
This paper defines and discuss a number of basic concepts relevant to educational administration that form the basis for the Educational Management Project, a comprehensive inservice program for educational administrators that was developed by the Tucson Public Schools. Major topics discussed include educational management, the difference between…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Principles, Administrator Role, Decision Making
Byars, Lloyd L. – Training and Development Journal, 1972
Describes systems management, the coordination of information flows among the functional areas of business as an aid in the decision-making process. (Author)
Descriptors: Administration, Administrators, Computer Oriented Programs, Decision Making
Peer reviewedReilly, David N. – Long Range Planning, 1974
Reports the results of a corporate planning survey involving fifteen United Kingdom companies and an experimental planning system developed as a research tool to investigate aspects of interactive planning. (Author)
Descriptors: Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Decision Making, Management Systems
Luty, Elanny T.; Metos, Thomas H. – 1971
Most educational management systems currently define organizational roles in terms of the operations to be performed. A more efficient manner of organization might be one that operates in terms of objectives to be reached. One way of implementing such a problem solving structure, would be to assign a particular problem to administrative personnel…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Principles, Administrator Role, Decision Making
Blakely, Robert J. – Adult Leadership, 1974
The sense of unity, of community, is lost because we have gone far beyond the human scale in which the individual can contain the social will and the social will can be an instrument ofpersonal fulfilment. Decision-makers need to move toward multi-purpose planning embracing the full spectrum of human needs. (Author)
Descriptors: Administration, Adult Education, Community Attitudes, Community Development
Whittenburg, John A.; Schumacher, Anne W. – 1969
Objectives of the study (summarized in Chapter I) were (1) to propose a task-oriented viewpoint in which the scientist actively participates as an integral part of the system in performing research tasks, (2) to identify major system planning decisions and criterion concepts for use in evaluation of proposed information systems, and (3) to…
Descriptors: Administration, Automation, Decision Making, Guidelines
Williams, James L. – 1974
During the past several years a number of studies and subsequent reports have been issued which addressed specific needs in the area of management for schools in the District of Columbia. All of the reports cited here--the Passow, Nelsen Committee, Price-Waterhouse, and Management Review Reports--identified areas of deficiency in the managerial…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Organization, Decision Making, Educational Planning
Miller, Donald R. – 1971
This monograph presents a comprehensive but tentative matrix program structure and system of account codes that have been integrated to facilitate the implementation of PPB systems in local school districts. It is based on the results of an extensive analysis of K-12 public school district programs and management practices. In its entirety, the…
Descriptors: Accounting, Administration, Budgeting, Codification
Mitroff, Ian – 1997
Ways in which to identify the correct problems to solve thereby avoiding the misappropriation of time, talent, and resources are presented. The text is divided into 3 parts: "The Foundation for Smart Thinking,""How to Solve the Right Problems," and "Systems Thinking for the Systems Age." The chapters under these headings are: Chapter 1, "The…
Descriptors: Administration, Case Studies, Critical Thinking, Decision Making
