Quality circles, in which a small group of employees meet frequently and voluntarily to study on-the-job problems and suggest solutions and improvements to the administration, which agrees to consider them, are a growing phenomenon, particularly in community colleges. (MSE)

Argues that the crisis of identity in English studies today is the result of continued failure to come to terms with radical changes in the concept of literacy occurring between the founding of the Modern Language Association and the formation of the National Council of Teachers of English. (EL)

The theory of organizational drift, or gradual assimilation of change within institutions, is applied to recent developments in Canadian institutions of teacher education, and other organizational theorists' criteria are used to support this alternative to traditional approaches to change in such organizations. (MSE)

This paper helps identify the major varieties of organizational development models and methods and analyzes the characteristics of some. It proposes that most models are only descriptive and fail to offer the predictive and control aspects that are central to success. A predictive "synthesis" is offered. (Author)

Suggests techniques and methods to be used by professional supervisors to develop people in subordinate working positions. Four major social and organizational trends are discussed which have implications for career development and personal growth, and emphasis is put on behavioral modeling by a supervisor as positive reinforcement for employees.…

The rationale and procedures are described for moving academic planning from "disjointed incrementalism" to a continuing, systematic, cyclical process involving six phases. They include: institutional assessment, goal clarification, data analysis and modeling, designing and testing change efforts, implementing the strategy, and program monitoring…

This book provides a comprehensive model for creating student-friendly and learning-supportive campus environments, examining how the principles of effective person-environment interactions work through physical, aggregate, organizational, and socially-constructed environmental components. The chapters of Part 1, Types and Impacts of Campus…

In the context of on-going economic reforms in the People's Republic of China, the paucity of management resources is widely recognized as a major obstacle to the country's endeavor toward modernization. This review of the literature explores pressing issues facing Chinese managers and current solutions being provided at the national,…

Theoretically, schools that practice school-based management (SBM) should be more effective. However, researchers do not agree whether the effects of SBM are negative or positive. This paper discusses how the practice of a self-management framework (in which key actors practice self-management cycles at the school, group, and teacher levels) could…

A study examined the social implications of a workplace strategy in which employees who previously worked together in a main office became virtual office workers. The study site was a Digital Equipment Corporation flexible work program implemented at its Newmarket, England, office, where a large traditional office was closed and its employees…

The Down East Partnership for Children (DEPC) was established in 1993 to bring together health, education, and social service agencies to address the needs of children and families in two eastern North Carolina counties. As the staff grew from 2 to 20 and communication within and outside the Partnership became more complex, an analysis of internal…

Strategies for initiating and sustaining complex education change, as reported in this paper, entail coordinated interaction across administrative levels of public education systems. Efforts to change schooling in England have included initiatives to downsize and reconfigure the provision of state-funded education. These efforts have created…

This paper describes two cases that illustrate the role of collaborative reflection in developing a culture of inquiry and individual and organizational renewal in school-university partnerships. Three assertions underlie the study: that individual renewal leads to organizational renewal; that developing a culture of inquiry is a prerequisite to…

Feminist theory has become an increasingly important tool in analyzing the position of women within the discipline of education. This paper presents a liberal feminist framework for gender equity issues specifically concerned with the recruitment and support of women in educational administration. It is organized into three parts: (1) the tenets…

Analyzes the expectation that a group subjected to organization development interventions will behave differently in the work setting from a group not subjected to such interventions, predicting that the differences will be attributable to interdependency awareness in the intervened group. (Author/JM)