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Download full textCoate, L. Edwin – 1995
This monograph describes how team- and process-oriented change techniques such as Total Quality Management (TQM) and Business Process Reengineering (BPR), were adapted to an academic environment to effect a comprehensive change program at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC). The $3 million program, begun in 1993, produced radical…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Change Agents
Business and Technology Education Council, London (England). – 1994
Britain's National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) are work qualifications that measure what an employee or potential employee can do as well as how much he or she knows and understands about a particular job. Used as written proof of usable workplace skills that can be put to profitable use by an employer, NVQs range from basic Level 1, for…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Certification, Competence, Competency Based Education
Berkeley, Terry R.; And Others – 1995
This paper describes a leadership model based on assumptions about connections between human development and organizational development, and the application of the model in leadership training for New Hampshire special education directors. The model assumes that four critical factors of human development outlined by Piaget and Meisels can be…
Descriptors: Administrators, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Cheng, Yin Cheong – 1995
This paper provides a framework for the discussion of policy and development of educational quality. Based on the choice of indicators, the purpose of assessment, and the type of evaluation, the paper proposes a whole-matrix approach to addressing the critical issues in assessing and monitoring educational quality. These critical issues include…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Environment, Educational Quality, Elementary Education
Amaya, Tadashi – 1990
This paper discusses human resources development (HRD) in Japanese industry. Chapter I addresses changing industrial and occupational structures as a foundation for planning and constructing management strategy, especially for business restructuring. The actual situation regarding business diversification is considered, and an attempt is made to…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Education, Career Development, Employment Patterns
Christman, Jolley Bruce – 1998
Philadelphia's school reform initiative, Children Achieving" was evaluated. The focus in this report is on decentralization, exploring how Children Achieving is strengthening schools' capacity to make and carry out informed decisions that lead to schoolwide standards, how the new structures are working at various levels of the system, and how…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decentralization, Educational Administration, Educational Change
Brody, Celeste M., Ed.; Davidson, Neil, Ed. – 1998
This book describes approaches to professional development for cooperative learning and how the use of cooperative learning for teacher learning is leading to new insights into professional growth in schools. Part 1, "Begin with the Teacher: Focusing Professional Development for Cooperative Learning," offers "Introduction:…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Learning, Decision Making
1997
This document contains four papers from a symposium on evaluation in human resource development (HRD). The first paper, "HRD Evaluation as the Catalyst for Organizational Learning" (Hallie Preskill), argues that HRD practitioners must stop considering evaluation a periodic event focused on a narrow set of variables and begin viewing it…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Critical Incidents Method, Evaluation Methods, Human Resources
Oboh, Aigbehi Henry – 1990
A study investigated the use of training needs assessment (TNA) by training and development practitioners in business and industry. It allowed for an assessment of both real TNA (practitioners' knowledge, observation, and experience) and ideal TNA (the literature and experts' opinions). A literature review focused on the concept of TNA,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Business, Education Work Relationship
Hertzler, Elizabeth – 1994
The implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM) in an organization implies a fundamental change in the way that organization functions. Therefore an examination of the adoption of the TQM philosophy necessitates a review of the most significant and latest literature on change theory and on the impact of organizational culture on change, as…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Business, Change Strategies, College Administration
Chene, Adele – 1993
A study explored training from the perspective of the trainees, what it meant for them when they were faced with a major reorganization of their work, and what its impact was. Data were collected from 10 women operators working in cellular manufacturing, 2 foremen, and 1 forewoman. The interviewees selected by the management had converted to…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Education Work Relationship, Educational Research, Employee Attitudes
Witt, Allen A.; And Others – 1994
Tracing the nationwide development of the American community college from initial concept to its present position as the largest and fastest-growing sector of higher education, this book relates the development of the colleges to social and economic conditions in the country. Following a foreword and preface, the first two chapters examine the…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), College Role, Community Colleges, Educational History
Shiffer, Michael W. – 1994
A study examined the impact of work teams on production, quality, and morale within the State of Alaska Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, using data from fiscal years 1992 and 1993 when a change from a hierarchical organization to a team-based approach took place in the agency. Production was defined as the percentage of placements achieved…
Descriptors: Adults, Job Development, Job Placement, Management Teams
Brooks, Annie, Ed.; Watkins, Karen, Ed. – 1994
This document contains the following 26 papers presented at the first Academy of Human Resource Development (HRD) Conference: "Management as a Service to Internal Customers" (Antonioni); "Developing Texas State Agency Executives for the Learning Organizations" (Bales); "How Executive Businesswomen Develop and Function in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
Johnson, Samuel D., Jr., Ed.; Carter, Robert T., Ed. – 1992
Papers from this year's conference reflect the Roundtable's theme of addressing cultural issues in an organizational context. Topics cover a wide range of institutional and organizational issues in corporate, educational, and treatment settings. Papers include: (1) "The New Corporate Language for Race Relations" (keynote) (Clayton P.…
Descriptors: Black Students, Context Effect, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
