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Likert, Rensis; Fisher, M. Scott – Personnel, 1977
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Management by Objectives, Management Systems, Participation
White, Michael – Executive Educator, 1991
A research psychologist at Princeton (Ohio) City Schools attributes district success to a polished management by objectives (MBO) approach helping educators set priorities, stay focused, and meet educational goals. Steps for determining district needs, developing objectives, and monitoring progress are provided. Schools have flexibility to tackle…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Management by Objectives, Problem Solving, School Effectiveness
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Churchman, C. W. – American Behavioral Scientist, 1974
What is needed is an exoteric university structure: one that closely aligns its organization and its practice to produce "Socially useful knowledge" and solutions to social problems. Such a university could combine elements of esoteric study with exoteric methods to achieve an integration of academic and "real" worlds. (Author)
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Objectives, Higher Education, Management by Objectives
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Marriner, Ann – Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 1983
Planning is the key to time management. Individuals and organizations should consider where they are now, where they want to be, and when and how they are going to get there. Goals must be set and priorities determined. (Author/SSH)
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Hospital Personnel, Management by Objectives, Nursing Education
Fritz, Roger – AGB Reports, 1978
The concept of management by objectives can be applied to academic institutions. A continual process for identifying goals, defining individual responsibilities, and using agreed-on measurements as guides and assessment tools, MBO's basic thrust is to push the decision-making process down through the organization. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: Administration, College Administration, Decision Making, Educational Objectives
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
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Read, Edwin A. – NASSP Bulletin, 1974
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)
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Educational Finance, Educational Practices
Bartunek, Jean M. – 1979
This study investigated the effects of participation training, agreement, and decision importance on teachers' desires for participation in decision-making and their perceptions that participation would increase decision effectiveness. Results indicated that teachers who had received participation training preferred less participation in…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Management by Objectives, Organizational Development, Participant Satisfaction
Briggs, Channing M. – NASPA, 1975
Contends that computers have only limited usefulness in evaluating Management By Objectives programs. (HMV)
Descriptors: Computers, Decision Making, Higher Education, Management by Objectives
Goddu, Roland – 1977
This paper outlines the decision-making processes and procedures that affect curriculum and identifies the leadership role of different school personnel and the steps involved in making decisions. The following areas of curriculum planning are discussed: (1) what is to be taught to different learners and in what order; (2) what textbooks, media,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Educational Objectives, Educational Responsibility
Njoku, Eluma S. – West African Journal of Education, 1975
The Management By Objectives (MBO) system is introduced to higher education, its historical development traced, and its potential for solving the management crisis in higher education assessed. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: African Culture, Developing Nations, Educational Administration, Educational Problems
Meussling, Vonne – 1987
Reporting on a public relations course at Indiana State University, this paper presents specific guidelines for students to use in converting the classroom theory of creative problem solving, persuasion, promotion, publicity, and management into the actual staging of a special event and/or fund raising. The paper offers suggestions in the areas of…
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Field Instruction, Higher Education, Management by Objectives
Dossett, Dennis L.; And Others – 1978
Goal-setting has been accepted as an effective motivational tool. Whether goals should be participatively set or assigned was examined by holding goal difficulty constant in an investigation based on previous results which suggested that participants in goal-setting set more difficult goals than those for whom goals are assigned. Results suggest…
Descriptors: Clerical Workers, Difficulty Level, Employer Employee Relationship, Job Performance
Barber, Larry; Kurtz, Jeff – 1976
Behavioral objectives are components of problem-solving and evaluation systems, and of decision-making strategies. Sound objectives meet the criteria of being formulated by those expected to achieve them, are explicit and forward-looking, are consistent with other goals within the organization, are set within the context of a particular…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrators, Behavioral Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Simon, Elaine – 1978
This volume describes the evolution and implementation of the Junior High School Network Project (JHSN), one of nine programs selected by the Documentation and Technical Assistance (DTA) Project as demonstration sites for enhancing the problem solving capacities of urban schools. As described, the original proposal for the JHSN was directed toward…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Demonstration Programs, Educational Improvement, Junior High Schools
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