Satirizes management by objectives through a funny description of a new system of management by spontaneity. (MD)

Describes the development and implementation of a comprehensive, results-oriented management system based on a participative management concept. (Author/IRT)

A management-by-objectives approach demands personnel assignments, deadlines, and a concise statement of the task. This approach can be used to evaluate personnel and to eliminate the need for crisis management. (Author/MLF)

The West Bloomfield School District (Michigan) evaluates administrators by utilizing a management by objectives technique, a comprehensive job description based on tasks to be performed, and a self-evaluation guide that serves as a discussion tool during evaluation conferences. (Author/MLF)

Briefly describes a program used in the Hazelwood School District in Missouri. (JM)

This article briefly critiques management by objectives (MBO) as a means of specifying administrator tasks and then describes the implementation of MBO in the West Bloomfield School District, Orchard Lake, Michigan. (Author/DS)

For a concise exposition of what management by objectives is and what it could mean for schools, with special reference to the principalship, this article is recommended reading. (Editor)

The author uses behavioral objectives as the framework for developing an evaluation system with a simple approach. He believes that simplicity is the key to successful implementation of evaluation systems. (MD)

Discusses characteristics of four common administrator evaluation procedures: management by objectives, traditional rating scales, self-evaluation, and administrator outcomes models. Outlines three broad responsibility areas for special-education administrators that warrant evaluation. Introduces a comprehensive, team-based model that begins with…

School board and community have only two ways to achieve accountability: by prescribing teaching methodology and establishing expensive supervisory superstructure to enforce it; or by establishing desired learning outcome standards and products and requiring professional staff to develop plans to achieve them and criteria to evaluate results.…

After a comparison of the organizational characteristics of environmental interference, goal conflicts, reward potentials, and goal selection in public school systems and in private industry, caution is urged in the application of the management-by-objectives model of industrial management to educational administration. (MJL)