This workbook is a collection of practical strategies and techniques for team-building that can be used by educational consultants or by the team members themselves without outside assistance. Various aids are presented to facilitate organizational improvement in schools. The consultant aids are listed as diagnostic warm-ups, exercises, and…

Each interpretation of staff development is derived from a particular theory of organizations and a particular understanding of educational and personal psychology. This paper outlines several organizational theories on which staff development might be based. Staff development is considered as being concerned with all those needs of the individual…

This learning guide, structured into two sections, was developed to facilitate the learning of cognitive and social skills of individuals working within a group organization. The first section deals exclusively with knowledge about organizational structure, and is oriented towards developing recall and comprehnsion. This section seeks to highlight…

In 1975-76 the Educational Improvement Center field tested a program to provide instructional leaders with knowledge and skills in planning and organizational development and to create a functioning network of instructional change agents. Participants were instructional leaders such as principals, superintendents, media specialists, and head…

The traditional university structure has come to be seen as an obstacle to necessary changes in education and research in Sweden. Reforms initiated by the Swedish Parliament have focused mainly on the overall control of university organization; less change appears in the direct production of education and research. A project underway at the…

The purpose of this handbook is to provide some tools for supervision which can help the employer and the employee work out expectations, evaluation, and on-going operations. It is divided into four sections entitled (1) Describing Performance Characteristics, (2) Negotiating Outcomes, (3) Negotiating Procedures, and (4) Recording Performance. The…

This booklet attempts to give a brief overview of the nature of organization development (OD). It describes the role of the professional organization development specialist, how he functions, and what he tries to do in the client system. It also describes the purposes of the Midwest Organization Development Network, a nonprofit association of OD…

This symposium report presents the background, underlying assumptions, philosophy and goals, research design, sample, and results of an intensive three-year organizational study involving military, government and civilian organizations. The first paper, by S. B. Wells, discusses the organizational setting, approach and rationale of this research.…

This booklet was developed as part of the Pilot Communities Program and focuses on how to develop and use teams in schools. The first section of the book, entitled "The Groundwork for Building a Team," includes the rationale for and definition of a team and discussions of: (a) team goals and objectives and real world constraints; (b) selection of…

Since educational organizations must constantly change to meet the demands of a changing society, educational administrators might look to the social sciences for help in managing change and innovation. This paper argues that an organizational approach to educational innovation is likely to be more successful than an individualistic approach.…

In this paper the roles and functions of man in the evolution and development of two complex specific systems within the Army operational environment are discussed. It is pointed out that throughout the course of historical development, the basic system functions and objectives have remained unchanged even though the system equipments have varied.…

Following an explanation of the Level of Responsibility/Equitable Pay Function, its applicability is demonstrated to the analysis and to the design and redesign of organizational hierarchies. It is shown how certain common dysfuntional anomalies can be avoided by structuring an organization along the principles outlined. A technique is then…

In discussing what is meant by the concept "organization," the author raises the questions, "What is an organization that it can have such a thing as a goal?" and, assuming it appropriate to speak of organizational goals, "how do the goals of individuals bear on those of the organization?" The author submits that answers to these questions raise…

The Sports Institute for Research Through Change Agent Research (SIR/CAR) provides a service whereby organizations through an audit and feedback system prognosticate and identify problems in order to avoid situations discordant with their organizational goals and objectives. This document reports the organizational crisis that faced the Windsor…

Presented is an assessment of the organization, procedures, personnel, fiscal support, and physical plant of the University of Los Andes library system. Field visits by a consultant team which placed assessors on the site for a total of 97 man-days were made during the March to June 1976 period. Assessment instruments were developed and…