Gives a brief but current overview of the how to'' stage of PPBES, and where this new concept is after seven years of discussion and experimental application at scattered schools and districts in the nation. Gives the approaches to PPBES and educational resource management by a professor, a school administrator, and a businessman consultant.…

The library cannot be considered as an isolated entity, but must be considered in relationship to its place in the international information network and to its place within the institution which it serves. The library collection must also be considered within its framework. Integrated management of the collection implies that all aspects of…

This monograph, prepared to assist Georgia elementary principals to better understand accountability and its implications for educational improvement, sets forth many of the theoretical and philosophical bases from which accountability is being considered. Leon M. Lessinger begins this 5-paper presentation by describing the need for accountability…

Discovered in the 1960's, MBO is a direct attempt to build into management systems an unremitting attention to purpose." (Editor)

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 review surveys documents, previously announced in RIE, that are concerned with the (1) development of planning-programing-budgeting systems (PPBS) for educational planning, (2) models of PPBS implementation, (3) specific applications suitable for libraries, and (4) bibliographies available on the topic. PPBS decisionmaking models enable…

The most critical activity in the planning-programing-budgeting system is the specification and employment of goals and objectives. Program goals are the desired outcomes of a program, but program objectives are the changes in, or the creation of, program elements in a specified way to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of a program. Since…

This booklet describes the Independent Educational Management Audit (IEMA), a systems approach to educational management that is intended to help school systems plan for the most effective use of available resources, in terms of specific educational outcomes. Through an emphasis on needs assessment, IEMA is designed to (1) help identify and remove…

Program objectives and fiscal accountability were combined as program budgeting was developed in a local school district. This approach to budgeting increased staff involvement, emphasized the system approach, and improved communications. The budget development process is described and documented through one school year. (Author/DW)

This report explores the pros and cons of the PPBS management tool. It gives specific examples from school systems and describes steps in each element of PPBS, stressing (1) planning to involve everyone in formulation of instructional and noninstructional goals, (2) programing to give every school program an accomplishment that can be measured…

The basic purpose of this book is to provide a practical approach for the introduction and installation of a PPB system. Part one describes the components necessary for an operationalized PPB system, suggests methods of achieving those components, and attempts to illustrate some of the risks and problems involved in the developmental process. Part…

The University Task Force on Planning and Budgeting, established through the board of regents of the university, designed and tested a system for institutional planning and budgeting. This pilot planning document addresses the background for planning and budgeting, the university's mission, planning assumptions made, the instruction program,…

This report explains the application of management system principles to education. The principles include (1) a statement of the major mission of the organization, (2) statements of goals and objectives, (3) a definition of the product and an identification of the factors essential to the production of the product, (4) a description of the…

In this book, the author attempts to aid those persons involved in finding ways to make school systems more efficient and productive through control systems. He begins by stating the problem and describing the services provided by Research and Evaluation (R&E) units. He discusses the various monitoring and reporting activities, work-flow…