This paper relates the "Agile School", an emerging archetype of the enterprise architecture: "Processes of Organizational Leadership" for leading and managing strategies, tactics and operations of forming in Higher Education Institutions. Agile School is a system for innovation and deep transformation of University Institutions…

The AAMP (administrative abilities matched to problems) system is simply one or more school administrator(s) designated by the school system's computer information system as having those abilities, preferences, and characteristics required to solve a particular system problem. An AAMP is formed on the basis of information provided concerning the…

Describes the Educational Opportunity Program of Northern Illinois University's adaptation of an administrative planning decision making program called the Delphi concensus seeking process. (MD)

The use in education of management techniques developed for industry is discussed, the rules teachers should consider before such techniques are employed, and some of the common causes of the failure of these techniques in education are examined. (Author/RK)

The need for planning in educational systems may be interpreted as the need to identify, prepare, and devise new or revised procedures through which explicit systemic goals may be realized. Usually such efforts have a specific time orientation. Planning is further related to policy in the sense that policy is a legitimized procedure or course of…

A brief look at Planning-Programing-Budgeting Systems, which are sound principles of decision-making and problem-solving, with illustrations of their application to persons serving in various roles throughout the school system. (Author/HB)

Paper differentiates managerial performance from management capacity and management style. Methods of structured communication and problem-solving are proposed, in the context of an overall educational working structure, arising out of systematic principles, and oriented towards individualized, integrated and broadly based learning. (Author)

This document examines the design and structure of PMIS (Planning and Management Information System), an information system that supports the decisionmaking process of executive management in local school districts. The system is designed around a comprehensive, longitudinal, and interrelated data base. It utilizes a powerful real-time,…

Contending that participation in quality circles enhances effective time management by school administrators and teachers, this guide provides both a theoretical briefing and practical recommendations for better time management. A pre- posttest prefaces a review of basic concepts of quality circles with reference to the work of Abraham Maslow,…

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 Management By Objectives (MBO) system is introduced to higher education, its historical development traced, and its potential for solving the management crisis in higher education assessed. (Author/LBH)

Describes the concept of quality circles: small, homogeneous groups of workers who discuss product improvement. The idea originated in Japan and has infiltrated U.S. industry and, ultimately, U.S. schools. Explains the quality circle program in the Muskegon (Michigan) schools and its effects in improving communication among employees and…

This document outlines the steps necessary for the development and implementation of a five-year plan for an educational system. It first presents a framework for a five year program plan which includes a yearly statement of the goals of the organization, review or evaluation of the program, a yearly statement of priorities, determination of…

This report reviews the experiences of two New Jersey school districts that have initiated Attendance Improvement Plans (AIP) for professional school personnel. It is intended to summarize a 1974 report entitled "Program to Improve Teacher Attendance." The districts that participated in the pilot project were Newark, with approximately…