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Peer reviewedAnderson, B. Robert – School Management, 1973
Each of the 24 administrators brings his concerns to the team for discussion and suggestions. At the request of team members, priorities are set and the individual administrator attacks his own objectives in the most professional manner possible. Inherent in the program are built-in methods for proceeding towards attainable goals, progress checks,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, Administrator Evaluation, Administrators
Gray, Frank – 1978
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…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrators, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Bell, Terrel H. – North Central Association Quarterly, 1974
Author described in outline form how an MBO system functions in a school district, in order to judge more clearly the potential of MBO as a means to performance accountability. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Administration, Educational Needs
Peer reviewedChronister, Jay L. – Community College Review, 1974
Considered the advantages and disadvantages of implementing MBO in the community college. (RK)
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Responsibility, Community Colleges, Deans
PDF pending restorationSpillane, Robert R.; Levenson, Dorothy – 1978
Directed primarily toward those concerned with school administration, this guide describes a Management by Objectives (MBO) System and its application in a local school district. Three basic steps are outlined in the system approach: annual district-wide goals are set by the board of education in consultation with management personnel at all…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Guides, Educational Administration, Educational Planning
Download full textHughes, Meredydd, Ed.; Richards, John, Ed. – 1975
A key issue in educational administration in England at present is the interrelationship between professional responsibility and public acceptability, and between professional responsibility and political control. These papers show how the conference focused on this issue and the question, Should the education service in the future continue as an…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Administration, Educational Change, Management by Objectives
Lessinger, Leon M. – 1975
Effective accountability always involves four essential elements: Knowledge of what is required, knowledge of who is responsible to whom, knowledge of how to be successful, and knowledge of the consequences of not being successful. The movement in education now called accountability has added the additional requirement that educators stipulate the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Administration, Educational Objectives
McGrew, Jean B.; Hafeman, Donald A. – 1974
In response both to a growing national grumbling about the need for educational accountability and to a felt need to better define and focus on district priorities, the Madison Public Schools adopted a mangement by objectives (MBO) program in 1970. It is on the basis of three years' experience with this program that this book has been written. The…
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, Educational Administration, Educational Change
Mann, Dale – Research Bulletin (Horace Mann-Lincoln Institute), 1977
Reviews the basic rationale and elements of Planning, Programing, Budgeting Systems (PPBS) and discusses the value of PPBS as an administrative control system for implementing educational policy. (JG)
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Administration, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Baron, Bernard – 1978
The various elements of the management approach to tertiary education (broadly, all institutions of further and higher education maintained by local authorities) are identified, with the principal focus on the general approach known as "Management by Objectives" (MBO). The arguments for and against its use and possible hazards following…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bibliographies, Educational Administration, Educational Objectives
Chamberlain, Philip C. – NASPA, 1975
Defines some of the problems involved in using the new management techniques in higher education but also examines the potential benefits of proper implementation of these tools. (HMV)
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Administration, Feedback, Higher Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, Eugene, OR. – 1976
This annotated bibliography summarizes 12 selected publications concerned with the general topic of management by objectives. The selections are intended to give practicing educators easy access to the most significant and useful information regarding management by objectives that is available through the Educational Resources Information Center…
Descriptors: Accountability, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Administration, Educational Research
Keim, William E. – 1975
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…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Evaluation, Administrators
Rooney, Patrick O. – 1973
During the past several years, the Ventura Unified School District has devoted much time and effort to the development of the concept of educational accountability. The management by objectives system, which has been developed and is presently being implemented in the district, and the evaluation procedures set forth in the Stull Act…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Policy, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Guides
Temkin, Sanford – 1974
Although two economic methods, cost effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis, are frequently mentioned as useful tools for educational decision making, only one, cost effectiveness, has potential for making a contribution to this field. A benefit-cost analysis tries for each alternative to measure benefits and costs, which are then discounted to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Costs
