Systems analysts help the University of Buffalo prepare to move and store tons of goods and transport 40,000 students daily. (Editor)

This document presents 34 guidelines for educational managers who are implementing or considering planning-programing-budgeting systems (PPBS). The guidelines, divided into planning, programing, budgeting, and systems analysis, are designed to point out potential trouble spots that could occur at any of the stages of system implementation. The…

Provides academic administrators and researchers with a critical review of available tools in management techniques; a structure for considering possible analytical projects to undertake; and the steps that should be taken by administrators to ensure proper organization, planning, and control of management science efforts. (Author/DEP)

This speech analyzes the critical ingredients of an objectives-based management system for (1) goal determination--decisions regarding the direction of the educational enterprise; (2) progress monitoring--the formative evaluation of the system's enroute success in attaining its goals; and (3) output appraisal--the summative evaluation of the…

Discusses tendencies in systems management procedures that are indicative of the curriculum field's social commitments, systems language as social rhetoric, and the constitutive aspect of systems procedures as they are applied today in education. (Author/GB)

Resource acquisition is a general process active in all social organizations. The relative success of organizational resource mobilization determines whose goals and values will be met. Several factors impinge on resource mobilization, including suborganizational levels, technological sophistication, professionalization, and unionization.…

This paper demonstrates a process for investigating the economic and budgeting impact of educational innovations on the educational systems where they are introduced, based on the assumption that the money to finance educational innovations will have to be shifted from existing programs or other innovations. To illustrate the use of his analytical…

This report describes the critical path method (CPM), a system for planning and scheduling work to get the best time-cost combination for any particular job. With the use of diagrams, the report describes how CPM works on a step-by-step basis. CPM uses a network to show which parts of a job must be done and how they would eventually fit together…

A transactional system is the routine method for carrying out certain processes. This paper describes how a transactional system can be developed and operated for an office that has no computer support. The model is an Office of Institutional Research (OIR). The OIR manual (noncomputer supported) transactional system at Texas Southern University…

A system approach is a process for effectively and efficiently achieving a required outcome based on documented needs. Three major types of system approaches have emerged from a variety of problem-solving techniques. The design-process mode builds a system to meet determined and substantiated needs. The solution-implementation mode uses various…

The purpose of this paper is focused toward a systems understanding of the contemporary university, the American University being the data base. A general systems conceptualization called the open systems university is presented. Comprehensive and generic in character, it is hoped that the theory of the open university will be viable enough to…

This paper explores the potential of systems analysis for the educational manager. It contains a review of systems concepts with comments on current and proper practice. An application model of systems analysis in an organizational context is provided to foster rational decisionmaking and increased skill in problem finding and solving. The…

This model is a computerized mathematical simulation of the manner in which educational decisions and patterns of school operation affect costs. The design shows how teacher salaries, school building design parameters, and decisions regarding class size and instructional materials expenditures contribute to total school costs. The sophisticated…

Includes 410 annotated citations arranged as follows: systems analysis; management in the public sector; policy, strategy and planning; organization; control and evaluation; costs and financing; information and decision-making systems. (JEG)