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Critical Thinking: The Role of Management Education. Developing Managers To Think Critically.

Pierce, Gloria – 1990

Emphasizing critical thinking as the source of renewal and survival of organizations, this document begins by analyzing the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger as examples of inadequate critical thinking. The role of management education in promoting critical thinking is explored as well as the need for a…

Descriptors: Administrator Education, Critical Incidents Method, Critical Thinking, Decision Making

The Identified Need and Means for the Inhouse Training of Higher Education Administrators. ASHE Annual Meeting 1979 Paper.

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Olswang, Steven G.; Cohen, William D. – 1979

The findings are presented of two research studies designed to identify the causes of perceived inefficient and ineffective performance by administrators in institutions of higher education. The first study examined operational dissonance among the three levels of academic administrators (chairpersons, deans, and provosts) in complex…

Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Administrators

HANDBOOK OF STAFF DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RELATIONS TRAINING, MATERIALS DEVELOPED FOR USE IN AFRICA. REVISED EDITION.

NYLEN, DONALD; AND OTHERS – 1967

A SELECTION OF EXPERIMENTALLY TESTED MATERIALS, THIS REVISED AND EXPANDED HANDBOOK IS DESIGNED FOR USE IN DEVELOPING NATIONS IN GENERAL AND IN THE EMERGING AFRICAN NATIONS IN PARTICULAR. THE FOLLOWING ASPECTS OF STAFF DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RELATIONS TRAINING ARE PRESENTED--TRAINING NEEDS AND CULTURAL INFLUENCES IN ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICAN NATIONS…

Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer), Conflict Resolution, Culture Conflict