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Odiorne, George S. – College and University Journal, 1971
Discovered in the 1960's, MBO is a direct attempt to build into management systems an unremitting attention to purpose." (Editor)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Higher Education, Management Development, Management Systems
Peer reviewedIvancevich, John M. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1974
Reports on empirically-based longitudinal study of performance in a manufacturing company that uses management by objectives. The performance of the subordinates of 181 MBO-involved supervisors in the production and marketing departments is analyzed. Time lag, reinforcement, and sustaining improvements in performance are considered and analyzed.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, Management by Objectives, Management Systems
Download full textHolloway, William H. – 1974
A prevailing concern of leadership development is the extent to which performance-oriented training increases the ability of an individual to define and implement a process to accomplish stated objectives. The systems approach provides an analytic strategy for task decomposition into sequentially, temporally ordered activities without necessarily…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Business Skills, Educational Administration
Nilsen, Sigurd R. – 2001
The General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed the performance measurement system of the Department of Labor's (DOL's) Veterans Employment and Training Service (VETS), which administers programs and activities designed to help veterans obtain employment and training assistance. The GAO review focused on the following items: VETS' proposed…
Descriptors: Accountability, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Employment Services
Walker, David M. – 2002
The General Accounting Office (GAO) examined the effectiveness of using strategic human capital (HC) management to drive transformational change in federal agencies and reported on its own implementation of a new competency-based performance management system. First, the potential impacts of the following three broad HC reform opportunities to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Change Strategies, Competence
