An Educational Resources Management System (ERMS) provides a model for adapting a planning-programing-budgeting system (PPBS) to decisionmaking in local educational districts. Initially, educators set the educational goals of their districts, from which programs are designed to produce outcomes compatible with the initial objectives. Evaluation,…

Calls for planning, programming, budgeting, and a systems approach in operating school systems to ward off criticisms of school policies. (DS)

From the systems viewpoint, educational planning is the mechanism through which the educational system makes its goals specific and adapt its priorities, resources, and operational patterns to the changing environmental forces of its particular society. The systems-oriented administrator is a change agent and innovative strategist who delegates…

Management-by-objectives (MBO) focuses attention on objectives stated as end accomplishments rather than the activities which bring about those accomplishments. MBO identifies eight major areas of management which become involved in the process: (1) planning, (2) performance appraisal, (3) individual motivation, (4) coordination, (5) control, (6)…