Describes how data from an employee attitude survey were used by the city of Phoenix, Arizona, as part of its city organizational development effort, to generate over 400 organizational changes and to increase personnel development of over 200 management employees. Includes a summary of survey results identifying training needs. (MF)

This paper examines the organizational changes introduced in two elementary schools to create unitary (desegregated) classrooms. The different models adopted by the two schools--departmentalization and team teaching--are considered as expressions of their patterns of interaction, behavior, and values. (Part of a theme issue on educational…

The report of this New Jersey state task force is part of a proposed legislative package. This article cites some of the task force recommendations for restructuring the juvenile court system, dealing with violence and vandalism in the schools, and providing alternative schools for disruptive students. (SJL)

The world of work constantly changes, and significant breakthroughs in productivity will most likely come from organizations that encourage and reward diversity through policies and programs that demonstrate a positive attitude toward change. (JOW)

During the 1980's shifts in social, economic, and political forces will be such that major changes will be necessary if educational agencies are to continue to provide a relevant and necessary service to the society that supports them. Institutions must accept change and become skilled in the change activities required. (Author/MLW)

This fourth and final article in a series on the history of the New Jersey Education Association focuses on Association activities and educational issues in New Jersey in the 1970s. (SJL)

Institutional research is discussed as part of a planning, management, and evaluation system. It is suggested that unless it links directly to planning, institutional research will cease to exist as a separate organizational entity in this period of constrained resources. (Author/SF)

(NOTE: The Fall 1977, Winter 1978, and Spring 1978 issues of this journal were published under the title "Higher Education Review"; thereafter, the name was changed to "Review of Higher Education.") To meet changing demands of society for academic services in academe, restructuring of the institutions is proposed. Departmentalization, cluster…

Explains zero base budgeting and describes its use at Chemeketa Community College (Oregon). Suggests that better management, improved communication, and more economical procedures can result if all staff members and representatives from the community are included in the budgetary process. Provides a sample calendar. (JG)

Traces the post-war development of comprehensive educational reorganization in Great Britain by examining central government policy and local education authority (LEA) practices. Emphasizes the role of LEAs as implementors of policy and discusses the limitations of central control. (Author/KC)

This review of the New Jersey Education Association since the 1950s concentrates on actions to improve salaries and gain collective bargaining, strikes, relations with the National Education Association, and the Marburger controversy over educational innovations in the 1960s. (SJL)

The author notes four potential limitations to the effective use of Zero Based Budgeting (ZBB) by Canadian school systems: provincial legislation, educational policies, attitudes toward technology, and salary negotiations. He examines the possible consequences of introducing ZBB into a school system. (SJL)

The characteristic silence of universities toward change as opposed to a rational problem-solving approach is analyzed and ways of enhancing organizational intelligence are described. Intelligence is portrayed as a prerequisite for collective action to improve learning and to adapt to serious environmental shifts. (Author/JMD)

Reports research that sheds light on the relative value of two explanations of receptivity, i.e., how people are oriented internally toward proposed innovations rather than how they behave in relation to those innovations. Data was gathered in a higher educational setting and involved faculty responses to a number of proposed organizational…

Argues that to make improvements in sponsored research administration, it is necessary to understand that: it is a system of interdependent components, and improvement requires systematic, highly integrated methods and a holistic view of the role of research administration in the larger research system. Provides a framework for…