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Cheng, Ching-Ching; Huang, Kuo-Hung; Lin, Yi-Kai – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2023
This study aims to assist preschools in achieving sustainable development by providing system thinking training for teachers and administrators. By promoting system thinking and PDCA, training helps preschool staff and teachers construct their knowledge and culture for organizational growth and effective operation. The research procedure…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Preschools, Management Development, Faculty Development
Kolnes, Joachim; Ă˜verland, Klara; Midthassel, Unni Vere – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The focus of this Q methodological study was to explore how professionals in the Educational Psychological Service (EPS) and schools experienced a system-based approach to expert assessment work. Forty informants from the EPS and schools sorted 60 statements about the assessment process. The following two shared viewpoints were identified: (1)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Systems Approach, Educational Psychology, Psychological Services
Nordholm, Daniel; Blossing, Ulf – Journal of Educational Change, 2014
This article targets local school improvement in Sweden and temporary systems as a model to organize improvement work. These data are based on a qualitative case study of teacher groups constituting a temporary system representing the different subjects in comprehensive school in a medium-sized urban municipality. A total of eight interviews were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Case Studies, Qualitative Research
Smits, Pernelle A.; Champagne, Francois; Farand, Lambert – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
The evaluation of interventions is becoming increasing common and now often seeks to involve managers in the process. Such practical participatory evaluation (PPE) aims to increase the use of evaluation results through the participation of stakeholders. This study focuses on the propensity of health managers for PPE, as measured through the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Evaluation, Intervention
Pitchforth, Jegar; Beames, Stephanie; Thomas, Aleysha; Falk, Matthew; Farr, Charisse; Gasson, Susan; Thamrin, Sri Astuti; Mengersen, Kerrie – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2012
Completing a PhD on time is a complex process, influenced by many interacting factors. In this paper we take a Bayesian Network approach to analyzing the factors perceived to be important in achieving this aim. Focusing on a single research group in Mathematical Sciences, we develop a conceptual model to describe the factors considered to be…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Time to Degree, Bayesian Statistics, Network Analysis
Cheng, Eric C. K. – Online Submission, 2011
This paper aims to validate a theoretical model for developing teacher collective learning by using a quasi-experimental design, and explores the management strategies that would provide a school administrator practical steps to effectively promote collective learning in the school organization. Twenty aided secondary schools in Hong Kong were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrators, Curriculum Development, Quasiexperimental Design
Seddon, John; Caulkin, Simon – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2007
Systems thinking underpins "lean" management and is best understood through action-learning as the ideas are counter-intuitive. The Toyota Production System is just that--a system; the failure to appreciate that starting-place and the advocacy of "tools" leads many to fail to grasp what is, without doubt, a significant…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Experiential Learning, Case Studies, Administrators
Peeke, Graham – 2000
In the context of the United Kingdom's further education (FE) system, continuous professional development (CPD) can be considered to include study for further qualifications and formal and informal in-college development programs. The tradition has been for teachers to determine their own development. In situations where resources to support…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Administrators, Adult Educators, Definitions
Fullan, Michael; And Others – 1978
This volume, the fourth of a five-volume series, contains three onsite case studies of organization development (OD) selected from a sample of 76 school districts. The purpose of the case studies was to analyze in detail different types of OD programs and their use. Each case study represents a different OD focus: case study A involves a survey…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Boards of Education
2000
This document contains three papers from a symposium on increasing job satisfaction that was conducted as part of a conference on human resource development (HRD). "A Systematic Model of Job Design by Examining the Organizational Factors Affecting Satisfaction" (Zhichao Cheng, Danyang Yang, Fenglou Liu) reports on a project in which…
Descriptors: Administrators, Attitude Change, Career Choice, Career Planning
Heneman, Robert L., Ed.; Greenberger, David B., Ed. – 2002
This document contains 14 papers on human resources (HR) and human resource management (HRM) in virtual organizations. The following papers are included: "Series Preface" (Rodger Griffeth); "Volume Preface" (Robert L. Heneman, David B. Greenberger); "The Virtual Organization: Definition, Description, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Adult Education, Adult Learning