Argues that the decline in the competitiveness of American industries arises from a failure to innovate in quality management rather than from a decline in product quality. Discusses the superiority of the U.S. in generating technological innovations and its lag in the commercialization of the fruits of that technology. (HB)

School executives can use a technique borrowed from business, "Strategic Planning," to introduce change and improvements into schools. (MLF)

Purpose of the article is to capture the flow of a process of persons working toward the goal of bringing TORI Theory into educational systems. TORI is coined by joining together the first letters of each of four factors which seem essential for growth within organizations made up of interacting human beings--trust, openness, realization, and…

A reply to a previous article on management of instruction. (HB)

A promising management technique for librarians is "management by objectives," which helps to establish library goals, measure performance objectively, and to identify factors affecting an operation's final results. (3 references) (Author)

A look at how the Trenton (New Jersey) Public Schools developed a project management system. (Author/HB)

Current research in management science is yielding new planning methodology more consonant with the presently shifting world view than past fragmented efforts have been. (Author)

This paper examines characteristics of three main education sub-systems: the policy formation system, the management or control system, and the implementation system. It also points out some implications of the analysis which seem to indicate similar and increasingly important developments in other public service bureaucracies. (Author)

Discusses the use of the PPBS, a resource allocations management system, at the University of California. (HS)

With a records and forms management system, the administrator can control his paperwork. (Ed.)

Studies of organizational characteristics and their relationships to managerial judgments of overall effectiveness of subordinate organizational units are reviewed and evaluated. (MK)

A student accommodation management system can answer that question. (Author)

Describes graphically a simplified version of PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique), an instrument for organizing, planning, and implementing work projects. (KJ)