This collection of 12 essays examines the school's need to establish a collaborative environment as a precondition for its own development. The following chapters explore the necessary shift in schools from a bureaucratic to a professional mode: (1) "Recanting Bureaucracy: A Democratic Structure for Leadership in Schools" (D. L. Clarke and J. M.…

Suggests that the key to organizational change may not always rest in the hands of the holders of formal organizational power, giving an alternative to the usual strategies of re-education or replacement to the top of the organizational hierarchy in systems of rapid movement from entry to high positions. (Author/AM)

Describes that nature of organizational development in this district and provides background information. By the close of the 1975-76 school year the district will have moved from a district centered to a school-based management system. (AM)

Notes that unless a legitimatization or acceptance of organizational development within the role structure of school organization takes place, the chances of system-wide impact of applied behavioral technology on school organization will be limited. (AM)

Suggests that much of what is labeled OD is really a demonstration training done after school or during one or two day workshops, and that like other curricula, OD is packaged for teachers and administrators such that it becomes a program rather than a continuous process. (AM)

College faculties contemplating the adoption of collective bargaining should carefully consider its implications for the following issues: participation in policy decisions, college senates, governing board authority, centralized decision making, emphasis on productivity, academic freedom and tenure, monetary gains versus union costs, influence of…

Gives agruments and support for the development of decentralized short-loop systems to take the place of an overconnected cobweb economy which increases problems for society. (BR)

Policy goals are decided by governments, which are responsible to the public, not by planners or administrators. Once general goals are agreed on, however, it will take technical planning skill, administrative skill, and political judgment to reach them successfully. (Author/WM)

This document examines the abolition of the Chinese Ministry of Education (MOE) and the establishment of the Chinese State Education Commission (SEC) in June 18, 1985. First, an organizational analysis of the history and organization, the administrative tools, and the functions and dysfunction of the former MOE is presented. Second, a discussion…

Those studying the distribution of urban services have generally concluded that services are distributed according to bureaucratic decision rules based on professional and bureaucratic norms such as need, efficiency, economy, equity, and convenience. Interest groups and elected officials may play a central role in effecting changes in bureaucratic…

The purpose of the 3-year project was to strengthen the role of experiential education as an accepted and effectively used way of teaching in a majority of postsecondary institutions and to make it available to a majority of future learners as part of the regular curriculum. Among specific objectives were assisting 160 colleges and universities to…

This study examines the leadership and management skills needed to improve urban high schools. Information was drawn from a national survey of 178 urban high school principals whose schools had been conducting serious improvement efforts for up to 4 years and in-depth case studies of five large high schools in the following urban areas: (1)…

A description is provided of Cuyahoga Community College's (CCC's) approach to institutional planning. After section I underscores the importance of strategic planning in an era characterized by limited growth, accelerating change, proliferating technologies, global competition, and socio-political pressures and challenges, section II offers a…