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Stumhofer, Nancy C. – 1985
At the Schuykill Campus of Pennsylvania State University, an academic intervention and support system has been developed which identifies and monitors high-risk students until they are able to succeed on their own or decide to leave school. The campus's LOFT Learning Center has created a link with the Admission's Office that is central to the…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Educational Cooperation, High Risk Students, Organizational Communication
Applbaum, Ronald L. – 1983
Focusing upon the interactive work-group communication patterns of employees classified as "managers," this paper compares such communication observed in Japanese and United States business and industrial organizations. The paper first describes several models of decision making within American and Japanese organizations, highlighting…
Descriptors: Administrators, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis
Government Employee Relations Report, 1982
A database on Labor Relations in Education used to prepare several sections of this report is described, and datafiles are listed along with access information and several examples of information that can be obtained from the database. This special report includes exclusive interviews with top officials of the two major teacher unions--the…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Collective Bargaining, Court Litigation, Databases
Howard, Eugene; Jackson, David – 1983
As a means of dramatizing the interrelationships that determine the climate of a school, a simulation experience was created for participants in this workshop on school climate improvement. A discussion of the intent of the experience includes descriptions of "good" and "poor" school environments and their impact on the school community.…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship
Dallinger, Judith M.; Hample, Dale – 1984
A study examined the relationship between dyadic and normative accessibility of work supervisors and task characteristics of autonomy, variety, and identity (whether the task is part of a process or results in a finished product). Dyadic accessibility refers to workers' estimates of their supervisors' accessibility. Normative accessibility is the…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Interpersonal Communication
Williams, M. Lee; Whitcraft, Carol – 1989
A study reviewed the progress of the 1978 Management by Objectives (MBO) and other management effectiveness programs initiated in Texas state agencies, 10 years after implementation. Questionnaires were distributed to a 25% random sample of executives, middle managers, and first level supervisors across the 11 largest state agencies. Over 1,700…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Employer Employee Relationship, Management by Objectives, Organizational Communication
Cohen, Steven – 1988
The problems faced by public managers in managing an agency's internal operations and communicating with the outside world are described, and strategies for addressing these management problems are provided, as is personal advice on how to build and maintain a professional reputation and advance in the bureaucratic hierarchy. The following…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Administrators, Budgeting
Cuban, Larry – 1988
This book reexamines the organizational experiences that bond teachers and administrators; reaffirms the enduring legacy that teachers, principals, and superintendents jointly inherited once they entered classrooms; and, finally, argues that reconstructing that sense of common purpose about the role of schooling is essential to improving what…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Foundations of Education
Schmidmaier, Dieter – 1984
This text is based on a comprehensive study of the literature on posters and poster sessions, a conference held by the International Association of Technological University Libraries (IATUL) on the problems of scientific communication, and on the author's experiences in dealing with posters and poster sessions. A conference poster is described as…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Conferences, Foreign Countries, Guidelines
Kidwell, Michael E. – 1985
Enhancing the awareness of (1) the organization of "typical" computer projects, (2) the communication that emerges from those structures, and (3) the problems that technical communications inherently hold is the purpose of this paper. It begins by presenting the organization of the working group of a computer project (a college that is going to…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Computer Oriented Programs, Group Dynamics, Organizational Communication
Sweningson, Sally – 1984
This guidebook is one in the Target Topic Series developed to highlight issues and concerns related to effective community education operation. It is intended for the community education advisory council member who wants to improve the effectiveness of the council. The material is designed to improve the atmosphere of the council to allow the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Education
Foeman, Anita Kathy; Pressley, Gary – 1985
A review of the literature reveals obvious cultural differences between black and white members of American society. Further analysis indicates that the culture of black Americans has fostered the development of a number of characteristics that would help them to function in corporate cultures that are populated primarily by white Americans.…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Culture, Communication Skills, Cultural Differences
Rogers, Donald P. – 1982
Intended for those new to the study of organizational communication, this revised annotated bibliography cites books and articles selected on the basis of clarity and comprehensiveness in providing background material or critical perspectives on organizational communication. The 27 citations in the bibliography focus on original literature…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Business Communication, Business Education, Communication Research
Wielinski, Donna L.; And Others – 1981
Research was initiated to investigate the concept of "network" as it related to the development of an occupational information system in Minnesota. Forty-eight users and producers of occupational information located in a number of Minnesota agencies were interviewed, with primary atention given to those agencies represented on the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Employment Opportunities, Information Networks, Information Systems
Dobson, John R. A. – 1982
A participatory research study analyzed adult lifelong learning in voluntary association. Examined in the study were the associational environment for learning, learning leadership, learning goals and objectives, program content, and skill development. To obtain these data, researchers administered a mail questionnaire to a stratified random…
Descriptors: Adults, Educational Environment, Educational Trends, Leadership
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