Organizational effectiveness depends upon the organization's ability to accomplish the following aims: to achieve its goals, to maintain itself internally, and to adapt to its environment. These aims summarize the nature of human resource management in local government and the role of an effective personnel manager. (Author/MW)

Recently, personnel executives and their staffs are being asked to help management solve an increasing number of human resource and business problems. Personnel management must undergo some changes if it is to achieve its full potential. (Author/AJ)

Attacking organizational problems of vocational personnel development, Southern Illinois University (Carbondale) focused on participatory planning and commonalities among specialty areas of vocational education without identity loss. Through consultants' recommendations, an administrative unit emerged to work on developing course commonalities,…

Describes the successful efforts, it is stated, of one high school in reducing the incidence of intergroup conflict: the school, consisting of approximately 1800 students with large segments of blacks, Puerto Ricans, Italian Americans, and Jews, was plagued in 1968 by major outbreaks of intergroup violence. (Author/JM)

Suggests the extent to and particular ways in which urban governments and school systems are undemocratic and unresponsive to community needs. Provides an example of the general inability of minority groups to obtain their social and political goals through either protest or political bargaining. (Author/AM)

The management of change, defined as organizational measures for promoting change and, therefore, close to management for change, is discussed. It is recognized that change does not necessarily represent improvement; evaluation of innovations constitutes one of the most important tasks of management. In this report the first chapter outlines the…

Intended to inform librarians and educators about the technology-based delivery systems likely to affect education and librarianship in the near future and to persuade them to reap the benefits of these systems, this paper provides a non-technical review of telecommunications and media technologies. The relationship between technology and change…

Innovation and change in higher education are examined, focusing on the organizational level. Frameworks for analysis employed in the literature are presented and applications are illustrated. Four distinct frameworks for studying change in higher education as conceived by Gamson are: complex organization, conflict, diffusion, and planned change.…

The administrative structures and functions of multi-campus colleges/districts of the same size as the Community College of Denver (CCD) were investigated to determine the positive and negative aspects of multi-campus colleges vs. separate independent colleges and of centralization vs. decentralization of 38 administrative functions. A survey of…

This monograph contains (1) five papers on issues raised in a study by Ron Corwin on the Teachers Corps program as an instrument of educational change, (2) a summary of educators' and sociologists' responses to the papers, and (3) an essay by the editor on possibilities for educational change and institutional reform. The first paper is by Melvin…

This report contains three papers that examine the Teacher Corps policy board from an operational standpoint. The first provides a conceptual and organizational framework for the policy board and describes a theory for policy board development and operation. In the second a reality-based view based upon personal experience on a policy board is…

The purpose of this book is to explain how urban schools can deal productively with problems found embedded in their organizational structure. Written for persons interested in organizational change in schools, the book focuses on the theory of how problem solving in schools does work, how it can work, and how it can be facilitated by change…

The public schools of today are pictured as rigid bureaucratic structures, unresponsive to dynamic change, and stultifying to individual initiative and growth. A discussion is presented on the future needs of education that will meet expanding demands for greater freedom for the individual in a democracy to make intelligent decisions. Proposals…

Researchers in the Procedures for Adopting Educational Innovations Program at the University of Texas have developed an "Intervention Taxonomy" to help classify and define interventions and components of interventions. It is hoped that this taxonomy will enable change facilitators and researchers to make conceptual and operational…