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Direct linkThoms, Charlotte L. V.; Burton, Sharon L. – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2016
Continuous learning is essential in academic and business environments for the 21st century learner as success, survival, and growth lean toward the educator answering the question, "Which educational design best facilitates educators in becoming learner-focused while producing adaptive completers in this ubiquitous learning…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Success, Learning, Training Methods
Stein, Carroll I. – Personnel Journal, 1975
The results of a survey of 428 management personnel in 10 organizations identified three major dimensions which interact to define most management by objectives systems' variations and problems: supervisory style, measurability of objectives, and frequency of review of the organization. Suggestions for positive changes are offered. (AG)
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Failure, Management by Objectives, Management Systems
Stewart, Valerie – Industrial Training International, 1975
Discussing the processes that happen in competitive training groups that experience failure and/or success, the article points out, for the benefit of trainers, that success is as much a management problem as is failure. (MW)
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Failure, Group Dynamics, Group Guidance
Odiorne, George S. – Personnel Journal, 1978
From a 1977 survey of twelve administrators who successfully use a management-by-objectives (MBO) method, the author lists twenty-seven steps for company management to take in setting their organizational goals. (MF)
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Guidelines, Management by Objectives, Management Development
Harvey, L. James – AGB Reports, 1978
Some of the most commonly asked questions about management by objectives are answered by an authority. They deal with implementation, effect on creativity, quantification, time involvement, effect on budget, personnel requirements, consultant services, and examples of institutions where MBO is used. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: College Administration, Decision Making, Educational Objectives, Guidelines
Geiger, Philip E.; Toscano, Gerald – American School Board Journal, 1980
Outlines factors that led to success and to failure in merit pay programs for administrators. Briefly describes merit pay programs in several school districts. (IRT)
Descriptors: Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, 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
Peer reviewedBurke, Ronald J.; And Others – Personnel Psychology, 1978
Eight performance review interview characteristics were related to seven interview outcomes. Two hundred seventy nursing personnel described their last review interview. Five of the interview characteristics were related to most of the outcomes. Implications are drawn for conducting performance appraisal interviews. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Conferences, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Hospital Personnel
Download full textPritchard, Robert D.; And Others – 1987
This technical paper is one of three produced by a large-scale effort aimed at implementing a new approach to measuring productivity, and using that approach to assess the impact of feedback, goal setting, and incentives on productivity. The productivity measurement system was developed for five units in the maintenance and supply areas at an Air…
Descriptors: Adults, Efficiency, Evaluation Criteria, Feedback
Ladewig, Howard – 1983
Measurement of the organizational effectiveness of the Cooperative Extension Service (CES) could be enhanced by utilizing a multidimensional perspective in measuring outcomes of various organizational activities, particularly the Extension educational system of program development. Because multiple and conflicting environmental constraints, goals,…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Criteria, Extension Agents
Gessaman, Paul H. – 1988
This packet contains student materials and an instructor's guide for use in a series of workshops on the "GOALS Process" for persons in retail businesses. The materials provide a framework for individual or family use in self-assessment and a means of identifying business and family life goals, setting priorities, and developing management…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Decision Making Skills, Entrepreneurship
Gessaman, Paul H. – 1988
This packet contains student materials and an instructor's guide for use in a series of workshops on the "GOALS Process" for persons in service-producing businesses (often family-owned). The materials provide a framework for individual or family use in self-assessment and a means of identifying business and family life goals, setting priorities,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Decision Making Skills, Entrepreneurship
Gessaman, Paul H. – 1988
This packet contains student materials and an instructor's guide for use in a series of workshops on the "GOALS Process" for persons in manufacturing businesses (often family-owned). The materials provide a framework for individual or family use in self-assessment and a means of identifying business and family life goals, setting priorities, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Decision Making Skills, Entrepreneurship
Martin, Robert A. – 1980
A study tested the effects of two systems of supervisory techniques--product specification and process specification--on the success of beginning teachers of vocational agriculture. (Product specification is based on supervision-by-objectives, a student-centered emphasis. Process specification is based on management of the teacher and his/her…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Evaluation, Agricultural Education, Beginning Teachers
Fullan, Michael; And Others – 1978
This volume, the fourth of a five-volume series, contains three onsite case studies of organization development (OD) selected from a sample of 76 school districts. The purpose of the case studies was to analyze in detail different types of OD programs and their use. Each case study represents a different OD focus: case study A involves a survey…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Boards of Education
