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Download full textKedney, Bob; Saunders, Bob – 1993
This paper examines methods that postsecondary institutions can use to cope with faculty and staff incapability, focusing on schools and practices in the United Kingdom. It first discusses the nature and scale of faculty/staff incapability in the United Kingdom, reviewing relevant court decisions. It then examines administration responses to…
Descriptors: College Administration, Competence, Court Litigation, Employees
Newburger, Craig; Butler, Jerry – 1991
Awareness of the corporate cultural phenomenon of fast-tracking, a process whereby executives are advanced within and among organizations, should assist communication students and practicing professionals to become more effective corporate communicators. A critical distinction between self-directed fast-trackers and their corporately-sanctioned…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Ladders, Communication Skills, Higher Education
Clardy, Alan – 1988
Teacher compensation systems, particularly the merit pay plan, are discussed in this paper. The introduction offers a historical overview of incentive compensation programs and presents the policy issue--whether or not merit pay plans contribute to school effectiveness. The single salary system is described in the next section, followed by a…
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives, Job Performance
Abbink, Charlotte; Schau, Candace Garrett – 1989
Using meta-analytic techniques, 54 studies were analyzed for differences in competencies of technically and professionally educated nurses. The research examined (1) the difference in three generic competencies (conceptual, human, functional) between nurses educated in technical versus professional programs, and (2) the relationship between the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Competence, Higher Education
Allison, Derek J.; Allison, Patricia A. – 1991
Findings from a study investigating and comparing differences in problem-solving approaches between novice and expert elementary school principals are reported in this paper, which focuses on the interview phase of the data collection process. Interview questions were designed to explore and compare the ways in which principals perceived…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Decision Making
Evans, Virden; And Others – 1983
A study investigated whether or not the job satisfaction of athletic coaches is influenced by the fact that their sports were revenue or nonrevenue producing. A revenue sport was identified as one being able to sustain itself financially within the university (baseball, football, basketball). Nonrevenue sports were identified as tennis, swimming,…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Extramural Athletics, Financial Policy, Higher Education
Stevenson, Sally – 1980
Intended for use by library managers, this self-study guide provides an introduction to performance appraisal as an effective tool in human resource management, and a review of the extensive management literature on performance appraisal. Topics discussed include: (1) the functions of performance appraisal, which include the provision of…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Annotated Bibliographies, Check Lists, Competence
North Carolina Employment Security Commission, Raleigh. – 1983
The United States Employment Service is now able to expand the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) coverage from approximately 400 jobs to all candidates for every job in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (over 12,000 occupations). In addition, employers can now receive more useful feedback on applicants. Instead of reporting whether a…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Job Performance, Personnel Evaluation, Personnel Management
Drummond Robert J.; And Others – 1989
This study evaluated the performance of beginning teachers who graduated from an urban regional state university. The strengths and weaknesses of the beginning teachers are compared across groups of individuals and through the use of different types of data-gathering procedures. The results of the performance of a sample of beginning teachers on…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Performance
Fowler, Gilbert L., Jr.; Shipman, John Marlin – 1989
A study was conducted to examine how the implementation of new technology in the newsroom has affected job satisfaction, whether demographic characteristics of employees have an effect, or whether employees in certain classifications of jobs are more satisfied with this technology than others. Pagination was chosen as the technology to study…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Job Performance, Job Satisfaction
Kaplan, Ira T.; Greenbaum, Howard H. – 1988
Three instruments designed to evaluate the performance of work groups in organizations were analyzed with reference to a recently developed comprehensive model of the group problem solving process. Although each instrument measured nine or ten dimensions of group behavior, none of them measured more than seven of the 16 categories of variables…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Group Experience, Group Membership, Interaction Process Analysis
Willis, Sherry L., Ed.; Dubin, Samuel S., Ed. – 1990
In response to the issues of global competition, the aging workforce, and the rapid rate of technological innovation and how today's professionals must meet these challenges, an examination is made of the key developmental approaches to maintaining and enhancing the knowledge and skills of midcareer and senior-level professionals. Twenty-one…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Competence, Competency Based Education, Evaluation Criteria
North Coast Behavioral Research Group, Cleveland, OH. – 1990
A study was conducted to determine employers' satisfaction with blue-collar and clerical employees entering the nation's work force. In addition, the study measured employers' perceptions of the ability of their employees to be retrained. A total of 200 executive interviews, of approximately 2 minutes each, were collected from a national sample of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blue Collar Occupations, Clerical Occupations, Educational Needs
Packard, Richard D.; Dereshiwsky, Mary I. – 1990
An analysis of the Organizational Readiness Assessment Model, which was developed from research on the Arizona Pilot-Test Teacher Incentive Program: Career Ladders, a performance-based teacher reward system, is the purpose of this report. The model is composed of essential focus and support factors for educational improvement and success, which…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Competency Based Teacher Education, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Bridges, Edwin M. – 1990
Featuring the same practical guidelines for ridding schools of incompetent teachers as the 1984 edition, this new edition incorporates substantially revised material on three topics: criteria and information sources for evaluating teaching effectiveness, remediation procedures, and grounds for dismissal. The book presents an eight-step systematic,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Responsibility, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education
