Gareth Morgan's "Images of Organization" introduces readers to "holographic organization" and explores his concepts of connectivity and redundancy, simultaneous specialization and generalization, minimum critical specification, and self-organization. This paper attempts to put these concepts into operation successfully by using data, surveys,…

This book is intended to provide development officers at not-for-profit organizations with comprehensive standards and definitions for preparing fund-raising activity reports of yearly fund-raising results, as well as management and activity reporting standards for fund-raising campaigns. Section 1 presents gift-income reporting standards for use…

In the first edition of this book, the concepts of marketing and planning library and information services were presented as effective managerial strategies. Several paragraphs from the introduction to the first edition are reproduced, with author commentary, in this edition as an affirmation that the message is still true. In this second edition,…

This report presents recommendations of a task force which examined ways to transform the Department of Education's Office of Student Financial Assistance (OSFA) into a performance-based organization designed to deliver better service at lower cost. Highlights of the more than 200 recommendations stress the need to provide service equal to the…

In-service education and organizational development are a must in solving the wisespread dilemma of inadequate staff preparation. (Editor)

Reports a team development intervention with a squadron at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Results indicated that the intervention positively influenced both climate and performance variables. Discusses results in the context of current skepticism about the utility of process interventions for effecting lasting improvement in organizational…

Colleges and universities, it is suggested, can enhance their effectiveness by adopting a systems approach to organizing, planning, decision-making, and evaluating. A decentralized, participative model that emphasizes systematic planning and management by objectives is presented. (Author/MLW)

A series of structured telephone interviews with members of 40 organizations revealed that career development is a highly regarded contributor to organizational effectiveness. (Author/SSH)

Successful career development programs must be based on current and future organizational requirements for management, professional, and technical personnel and should promote and guide career development planning to meet those specific needs. (SSH)

Studied the implications of being involved in either the design of changes or the application of a Quality of Work Life (QWL) change for four aspects of experienced influence. Results indicated the people who experienced the most increase in influence were those who helped design the change. (Author/RC)

Overviews the constructs of power, leadership, and trust as they occur within the context of human relationships in organizational settings. Presents some implications for counselors in human service delivery systems, particularly the schools, to enhance their being a significant influence in their organizations. (Author)

The current contingency style of management emphasizes understanding people at work and places a priority on interpersonal skills. Financial exigencies, declining markets, and technological change will begin to give value to management skills such as controlling, organizing, planning, decision-making, and conflict management. (MSE)

Measured the impact of a six-month organization development (OD) effort with a top management group in a large state government organization. The data demonstrated that OD in the public sector can result in mild to moderate improvement in role clarity, collaboration, and communication effectiveness among participants. (Author)

Program budgeting systems should be viewed as a comprehensive approach to decision making. They are tools intended to guide the manager through all the essential steps in the planning and resource allocation processes. (Author)

Identifies external and internal variables that affect public-sector organizations. Contextual frameworks are developed as orienting devices for organization development intervention in divisions of state welfare systems. Describes tactics of change in ambiguous performance settings and focuses on internal influence variables expected to affect…