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Puyear, Donald E.; And Others – 1977
This panel report on the development of management of objectives (MBO) in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) will be useful to any community college or community college system interested in changing to the MBO method of administration. Following a discussion of the history of centralized administration and funding which preceded the…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Responsibility, Centralization, College Administration
Bers, John A. – 1977
This paper summarizes the methods used by a "developing institution" (Gadsden State Junior College) to arrive at an institution-wide system of long-range planning and management by objectives. A needs assessment identified the following areas which more systematic planning and management might address: a contraction of the college's resource base,…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Policy, Administrator Responsibility, Budgeting
Carter, Meredith L. – 1979
Administrators from 32 public two-year community colleges were surveyed to reveal the extent to which Management by Objectives (MBO) programs affected organizational conditions; 200 questionnaires (71%) were returned. Approximately 65% of the administrators indicated that the MBO system did not change the amount of formal contact between superior…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Responsibility, College Administration
McKay, Elizabeth R. – 1977
An administrative program based on Management by Objectives (MBO) was instituted at William Rainey Harper College in 1969 and evaluated in 1973. The evaluation instrument used in 1973 was re-administered in 1977 in order to determine the effectiveness of the current MBO program and administrators' perceptions and evaluations. Subsections of the…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Policy, Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Change