The study gives the findings from a careful review of the available literature on autonomy on the job, its related behavioral responses, and the socioeconomic factors in the background of the worker which vary from low to high autonomy jobs. The document also provides a list of major organizational variables which social scientists have identified…

Recent events suggest that Intelsat (the 68-nation International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium) will coordinate a number of domestic and regional systems that provide satellite communications services, some of which will be maintained by Intelsat and some of which will be independent. This report addresses the problems of conflict in…

This volume consists of papers presented at a meeting of scientific and technical personnel who examined and evaluated applications of systems analysis and operational research, and who related techniques to practical educational planning. Topics represent a variety of new management techniques available to educational administrators including…

This document consists of the papers presented at a meeting of experts who examined and evaluated systems analysis and management technique applications to practical educational planning. The papers focus primarily on the integration of shortrun and longrun aspects of educational planning and the relationship between objectives and implementation.…

In the slightly over twelve years since its inception, computer-based instruction (CBI) has shown the promise of being more cost-effective than traditional instruction for certain educational applications. Pilot experiments are underway to evaluate various CBI systems. Should these tests prove successful, a major problem confronting advocates of…

In an interdisciplinary project graduate students from several fields--including medicine and communication--conducted an assessment and critique of media performance in the are of environmental problems. The project had no direct faculty supervision--the first such student project funded by the National Science Foundation. This volume presents an…

A set of procedures were developed which assist in structuring tasks and objectives in a manner to permit rational decision making. The model uses a jury of experts to rank various objectives and program processes in terms of their importance. Values are generated which relate to costs in the form of a utility-cost ratio. The model was tested in a…

As required by the Agricultural Act of 1970, the President has submitted to Congress this second annual report on the availability of government and government-assisted services to rural areas. The report pinpoints the strengths and weaknesses of those Federal programs which have a significant impact on rural America and identifies the…

This document, composed of 3 separated papers under 1 cover, is a case study of 1 institution's attempt to develop a system to permit optimum utilization of limited resources. The part of the system discussed here assumes that the institution has already made the decisions as to what it can do well and has to some extent allocated such resources…

This study describes a cost-effective approach to school resource allocations. It combines the cost and production function results in order to determine where cutbacks can be made, how resources should be relocated, whether certain resources should be increased, and whether certain changes need to be of large magnitude in order to be effective.…

This paper raises three broad issues,each with sub-areas. First, what are the consequences of measuring and evaluating the parts of higher education that can be satisfactorily measured? What are the consequences for the parts of education that can not be measured, and for the total enterprise? Second, what kind of assessment systems will be best…

Discusses the status of modeling efforts to predict impact of different educational access and support policies and identifies pitfalls involved in using simulation models for state and national educational planning. Concludes that few goals held for large-scale models have been achieved. Points up needs for improvement, e.g. more information at…

Presents and illustrates a goal-programming model for long-range budget planning and resource allocation. Goals are faculty instruction loads, staff-to-faculty ratios, faculty distribution by rank, and teaching-assistant-to-faculty ratios. Decision variables are the faculty, staff, and teaching-assistant levels in each of several academic units.…

The author discusses rural employment and training programs and rural manpower policy under various federal laws. He indicates that separate manpower policies for rural areas may be justified, as rural areas may require greater remedial efforts. (MF)

This speech on the International Project for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) discusses policy perspectives which could be aided by information such as: relationships between educational policy and social and economic policy, the structure of basic schooling, and the effects of school resources and instructional processes. (CTM)