The history and development of the student section of the American Association of Dental Schools is outlined, with attention given to funding, student activities, publications, and student-initiated resolutions. Positive changes are noted, but success is felt to be as great as initially desired, especially in publications and policy…

Described in this paper are techniques that should be employed by human rights agencies as a way to achieve greater productivity with existing resources. (EB)

Organizational change approaches were reviewed and analyzed in terms of the impact they have on major system variables in organizations, the type of change agent most likely to utilize each approach, and the relative affective, cognitive, and trusting behaviors required by the client system. (Author)

Recounts the innovative changes in a newspaper's staff structure, noting the positive and negative results. (RL)

Describes a program of peer supervision, consultation and specialized training that was implemented when the supervisor of four caseworkers (providing services to children living at home) was laid off. (Author/RH)

Contrasts the bureaucratic image of schools with four other possible images based on characteristics of social action in sects, legislatures, hospitals, and under anarchic conditions. Aims at developing a greater variety of ways to think about how schools can be organized. Various educational problems and means to resolve them are considered…

A survey of 67 cases of organizational change provides evidence concerning collaborative intervention. Collaboration exists in the phases of problem determination, goal setting, and solution in intervention, but its character changes. Little relationship is found between collaboration during each phase and the effectiveness or adoption of change.…

Freedom from material insecurity brings with it new human expectations. Demands for personal fulfillment and development of human potential will increasingly be placed on schools, and change will be necessary for organizational success and individual self-actualization. The authors present ten principles for bringing about desired changes.…

Illustrates an approach for providing both quantitative and qualitative data regarding teamwork and planning. Describes the utilization of such data concurrently with a "white paper" and survey feedback methodology in an actual intervention. (Author/IRT)

Discusses the changes in the major motion picture research collections during the past 15 years and describes the contents of the five largest remaining ones: Twentieth Century-Fox Research Library, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Research Library, Burbank Public Library--Warner Research Collection, Universal City Studios Research Library, Walt Disney…

Examines three aspects of curriculum change: (1) comprehensive plan and goals formation, requiring climate assessment; (2) institutional commitment, gained through leverage approaches (accreditation, competition, or external evaluators) and incentive (e.g., Title III funds, public relations, institutional vitality) approaches; and (3)…

Considers the planning of innovation in higher education from four viewpoints: the nature of the innovation, the planning process, educational planning, and higher education. In the absence of external pressures to change attitudes, planning of innovation seeks to create a favorable environment through altered organizational structures and…

This research is an effort to analyze the process of organizational change as it takes place within one segment of the public administration mechanism in Venezuela--The Ministry of Education. (Editor/RK)

Knowledge management (KM) has risen out of organizational downsizing and technology innovation and is an attempt to cope with the information explosion and to capitalize on increased knowledge in the workplace. This article examines the emergence of KM, business world variations on its concepts, the role of and opportunities for librarians, and…

Describes the development of a communication-based research project and plan to foster and maintain diversity within a large statewide public transportation agency and among its external constituents. Describes the organization structurally and historically, presents research methods and findings of a one-year organizational assessment, and…