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Perform or Else: The Performative Enhancement of Teacher Professionalism
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Liew, Warren Mark – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2012
The Singapore Ministry of Education's Enhanced Performance Management System (EPMS) was instituted in 2005 as a system of professional accountability to enhance the standards and stakes of teacher professionalism in schools. This essay explores how the EPMS, with its underlying paradigm of performance management, functions as a "technology of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Academic Standards, Performance Technology, Management Systems
Locating Problems with Quality Circles.
White, Donald D.; Bednar, David A. – National Productivity Review, 1985
Five categories of common quality circles problems are identified to help firms anticipate difficulties and avert circle failures. These categories include encountered internal problems, encountered external problems, created internal problems, created external problems, and interface problems. Solutions are suggested. (CT)
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Management by Objectives
Aspirational Management: Building Effective Organizations Through Shared Values.
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Rogers, Judy L.; Ballard, Steven – NASPA Journal, 1995
Develops the concept of aspirational management and explains its importance in assembling effective, adaptive, high-performing organizations. Describes how aspirational management can be implemented in higher education using four interacting processes: (1) an aspirations statement; (2) commitment to living the values; (3) commitment to learning…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Aspiration, College Administration, Higher Education
Effective Management Techniques in Tertiary Administration: A Risk Management Framework.
McNamara, R. P.; Booth, P. – Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, 1984
A management strategy that is potentially more fruitful for the nonprofit sector than traditional management toward a primary objective is a risk management approach to organizational effectiveness. The organization's effectiveness, its survival, can be analyzed by categorizing the risks facing it and assessing its performance in managing these…
Descriptors: College Administration, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods
The Life Cycle of Academic Management Fads. ASHE Annual Meeting Paper.
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Birnbaum, Robert – 1998
This study reviewed the literature to trace the evolution and life cycles of seven management techniques related to higher education. The seven case studies involved analysis of a selected sample of periodical, monograph, and technical literature from 1960 to the present. The literature base on each management technique was reviewed in reference…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Case Studies, College Administration, Higher Education
Managerial Innovation: Rules for Successful Implementation.
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Baldridge, J. Victor – Journal of Higher Education, 1980
The Higher Education Research Institute studied the impact of Exxon Foundation grants from the Resource Allocation and Management Program (RAMP) at 49 private colleges to determine if and how college planning and financial stability were affected by changes in management techniques. Rules for supporting innovations at various phases of a project's…
Descriptors: Administration, Behavioral Science Research, College Planning, Educational Finance
A Longitudinal Study of Administrative Evaluation of the MBO System from 1973 to 1977.
McKay, Elizabeth R. – 1977
An administrative program based on Management by Objectives (MBO) was instituted at William Rainey Harper College in 1969 and evaluated in 1973. The evaluation instrument used in 1973 was re-administered in 1977 in order to determine the effectiveness of the current MBO program and administrators' perceptions and evaluations. Subsections of the…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Policy, Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Change
Development and Implementation of an Educational Program Audit (EPA) Management System to Evaluate the Instructional Programs in the Capital School District.
Goate, Edward W. – 1977
Public demands for accountability in school systems led the Capital School District in Dover, Delaware, to begin investigating management systems in 1974. This investigation led to the adoption of a management by objectives system in 1975 and the addition of program budgeting in 1976, providing the district with the tools of administrative…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Attitudes, Board of Education Role, Community Attitudes