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)

Management by Objectives (MBO) has been found to be a useful means of conducting performance appraisals for professional employees. It is also an effective process for individual and organizational goal-setting and planning. Compensation systems may also be related to the MBO process. This paper addresses the concepts underlying MBO and its…

This paper describes a workshop for pupil personnel workers inaugurated to formulate statewide goals and objectives for Pupil Personnel Services in the public schools of Connecticut. Separate workshops were held for urban and suburban pupil personnel teams. Included in the report is a rationale for the workshops, a day-by-day schedule of workshop…

This discussion of the Pennsylvania Model Project follows a flow chart to cover all aspects of the program: mission, awareness and understanding, advantages and disadvantages, commitment, needs assessment, isolation of problems, setting priorities, assessing the present program, reevaluation of priorities, planning staff allocation, goals and…

The 1972 edition of the Program Classification Structure (PCS) is revised, using essentially the same framework but with additional categories and more detailed definitions. The PCS is a framework that permits the classification of a postsecondary education institution's resources and programs/activities as they relate to the accomplishment of…