In the face of reduced resources, recommends a well-considered, productive approach to decision-making, rather than a reactive approach, in areas of increasing faculty productivity, reducing full-time faculty, assessing community needs, developing new resources, and evaluating management. (MB)

Many management styles in business and education today are not efficient, however the system of Management By Objectives (MBO) is proving to be successful. An MBO system basically has three parts: plan, implement, and review. In the planning stage the organization's purpose is defined, a mission statement developed, goals set, and objectives…

This chapter of "The Best of the Best of ERIC," Volume 2, contains 14 summaries of documents and journal articles on the management team, all of which are indexed in either "Resources in Education" or "Current Index to Journals in Education." The materials included deal with various aspects of this topic, such as…

Interest in the Planning, Programming, Budgeting System (PPBS) has waned over the last five years for several reasons. Early rhetoric about PPBS obscured its true character and promised more than it could deliver. Initially, few had the competencies needed to implement it. It is often wrongly believed to be solely a budgeting system. Finally,…