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Lindberg, Erik; Wilson, Timothy L. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2011
Purpose: This paper seeks to explore how managing by objectives (MBO) has been adopted in Swedish schools and to reflect on some of the consequences in a longitudinal study. Results relate to whether introduction has increased student performance and whether it works as a tool for the principals to create more effective schools.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Management by Objectives, Principals
DeLuca, Richard P. – Vocational Education Journal, 1987
Key elements in the effectiveness of the advisory committee at Erie County Technical School (Pennsylvania) are its organizational structure, liaison with staff, management by objectives, and leadership commitment. (SK)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Advisory Committees, Leadership, Management by Objectives
Keefe, Carolyn – 1990
To deal with the time shortage problem while simultaneously stressing student educational development, a system was designed and implemented to manage a peer forensics coaching program. The program taps the peer coaching potential available on every team and generates academic credit and letter grades for the peer coaches by utilizing a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Management by Objectives, Peer Teaching, Persuasive Discourse
Kim, Jin Eun – 1979
Cost-effectiveness/benefit analysis is an analytical technique for assessing outputs of educational programs in relation to the program objectives and the associated program costs. It combines the two concepts of cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-benefit analysis into a comprehensive model. The cost-effectiveness/benefit analysis model has been…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Efficiency, Management by Objectives

Kiresuk, Thomas J.; And Others – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1981
The consumer of a service is of primary importance when defining groups most concerned with program impact. Program effectiveness for the consumer may be increased through the use of certain guiding principles based on the extension of existing quality assurance and program evaluation methodologies. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Accountability, Delivery Systems, Evaluation Methods, Human Services
Holley, William H.; And Others – Personnel Journal, 1976
Guidance is provided to organizational personnel in establishing a means for assessing the effectiveness of a new performance appraisal system. (TA)
Descriptors: Accountability, Management by Objectives, Management Systems, Organizational Development
Bachhuber, Thomas D. – NASPA, 1975
The author maintains that the increased visibility of student personnel work to the entire community through education and outreach can also assist in program justification and accountability. (Author)
Descriptors: Accountability, Higher Education, Management by Objectives, Models

Boles, Harold W. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1975
A university study team found a situation in a Michigan school district that, if it is typical, as seems likely, indicates that some administrators may try to introduce the team concept and implement it with management by objectives without either concept being understood by "team" members. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrators, Cooperative Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Register, Joe S. – New Outlook for the Blind, 1974
Management by objectives is a tool which is being used by the Arkansas Rehabilitation Services for the Blind to establish a planned process for identifying and achieving stated service objectives. (LH)
Descriptors: Administration, Blindness, Exceptional Child Services, Goal Orientation
Johnston, Robert W. – Training and Development Journal, 1979
Describes a positive seven-step process for initiating a whole organization development (WOD) effort. Steps include clarification of whole organization objectives, data gathering, diagnosis, prescribing interventions, commitment, implementation, and progress review. (CSS)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Data Collection, Intervention, Management by Objectives

Crockett, Judith – Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 1978
Describes how to improve an existing orientation program for nurses or implement a new one by utilizing Management by Objectives (MBO) principles. First, covers how to identify, prioritize, and classify managerial objectives. Then discusses how program effectiveness is insured. Last, discusses three important conditions for successful program…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Job Satisfaction, Management by Objectives, Nurses

Scott, Dow – Journal of Management, 1980
Investigated the causal direction between interpersonal trust and assessed value of an MBO program in a large mass-transit organization. Three measures of trust were collected. Results indicated that trust in superiors and trust in top management affect the assessed value of MBO and suggests that an interaction effect occurred. (Author)
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Interpersonal Relationship, Interprofessional Relationship
Williams, M. Lee; Whitcraft, Carol – 1989
A study reviewed the progress of the 1978 Management by Objectives (MBO) and other management effectiveness programs initiated in Texas state agencies, 10 years after implementation. Questionnaires were distributed to a 25% random sample of executives, middle managers, and first level supervisors across the 11 largest state agencies. Over 1,700…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Employer Employee Relationship, Management by Objectives, Organizational Communication
Temkin, Sanford – 1974
Although two economic methods, cost effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis, are frequently mentioned as useful tools for educational decision making, only one, cost effectiveness, has potential for making a contribution to this field. A benefit-cost analysis tries for each alternative to measure benefits and costs, which are then discounted to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Costs
Massey, Anne P.; Montoya-Weiss, Mitzi M.; O'Driscoll, Tony M. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2005
As organizations respond to competitive environments and strive to enhance performance, knowledge management (KM) has increasingly become a strategic activity. A KM strategy entails consciously helping people share and put knowledge into action. A key challenge is how to develop and implement KM solutions that provide performance support to…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Program Effectiveness, Performance Technology, Case Studies