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Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation at the Commonwealth of Learning: A Handbook
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Farrell, Glen M. – Commonwealth of Learning, 2009
Results-based management (RBM) is an approach to programme planning and management that integrates strategy, people, resources, processes and measurements to improve decision-making, transparency and accountability. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) began the adoption of a RBM model with its 2003-2006 Three-Year Plan. This led to a significantly…
Descriptors: Models, Partnerships in Education, Strategic Planning, Guides
An Evaluation of an Organization Development Approach to Reducing School Disorders.
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Gottfredson, Denise C. – Evaluation Review, 1987
An organizational development program was evaluated, which was implemented to reduce disorder in a Baltimore, Maryland, school. The Program Development Evaluation method was used. Increasing consistency of response to student discipline infractions, increasing rewards for appropriate behavior, and imposing peer and teacher support improved school…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Discipline Policy, Improvement Programs, Organizational Development
What the Generations Are Teaching Us...Or How To Look at Performance Differently.
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Price, Rosalynne V. – Performance Improvement, 2000
Considers three variables that can help performance technologists work more effectively with different kinds and different generations of people. Discusses recognizing the impace of position and disposition, assuring that feedback occurs, and thinking beyond old ways of operating and motivating. Suggests that the context of human interaction is…
Descriptors: Feedback, Human Resources, Improvement Programs, Interaction
Thriving and Not Just Surviving: New Directions for Tomorrow's Performance-Improvement Managers.
Kaufman, Roger – Educational Technology, 2000
Examines popular approaches to performance and organizational improvement to see what flaws they contain and how continued practice will impede progress. Discusses benchmarking; quality management/continuous improvement; needs assessment; training; downsizing; reengineering; system(s) approach; and strategic planning. Describes the Organizational…
Descriptors: Improvement Programs, Organizational Development, Organizational Objectives, Performance
Visions, Strategic Planning, and Quality--More than Hype.
Kaufman, Roger – Educational Technology, 1996
Discusses the need to shift from the old models for organizational development to the new methods of quality management and continuous improvement, visions and visioning, and strategic planning, despite inappropriate criticisms they receive. (AEF)
Descriptors: Criticism, Improvement Programs, Mission Statements, Organizational Change
Seven Performance Drivers.
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Ross, Linda – Performance Improvement, 2003
Recent work with automotive e-commerce clients led to the development of a performance analysis methodology called the Seven Performance Drivers, including: standards, incentives, capacity, knowledge and skill, measurement, feedback, and analysis. This methodology has been highly effective in introducing and implementing performance improvement.…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Improvement Programs
Aligning Performance Evaluation with Professional Development and Vise Versa.
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Buchen, Irving H. – Performance Improvement, 2003
There are a number of problems posed by employee evaluation, and professional development often suffers from similar issues. Suppose employee evaluation and professional development were intertwined in a collaborative and evolving relationship, and both components were brought to bear on linking individual and company goals. The answer is the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Corporations, Evaluation Methods, Improvement Programs
A Whole New World of Interventions: The Performance Technologist as Integrating Generalist.
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Hutchison, Cathleen Smith; Stein, Faith S. – Performance Improvement, 1998
Provides a list of potential strategies and tactics for improving the performance of individuals, groups, and organizations. The performance technologist must be able to integrate these strategies to be successful. Lists and describes 20 categories/interventions. The process of performance technology is discussed, as well as tips for mastering…
Descriptors: Improvement Programs, Information Scientists, Information Systems, Information Technology
A Case Study: Methods for Designing a Self-Correcting Planning System. AIR 1984 Annual Forum Paper.
Skobjak, Bernadette L.; Serve, Michael – 1984
The development of a self-correcting planning system at The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) is discussed. A committee was formed to review the present planning, budgeting, and monitoring (PBM) procedures and make recommendations for improvements. The committee was charged with eight questions about the present system, applicable…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Advisory Committees, Case Studies, Change Strategies
Toward a More Human Way of Working in America. A Report on the National Conference of the American Quality of Work Life Association Convoked by the American Center for the Quality of Work Life (1st, Washington, D.C., May 20-22, 1977).
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Zwerdling, Daniel – 1979
Beginning an an informal, unstructured information interchange among 100 union, worker, and management representatives from seventeen public and private sector organizations operationally involved in quality of work life activities, a 1977 conference evolved into the first annual meeting of the American Quality of Work Life Association.…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Education, Committees, Employer Employee Relationship