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Davis, Heather; Macauley, Peter – Australian Library Journal, 2011
This paper outlines the emerging trends for leadership in the knowledge era. It discusses these within the context of leading, creating and sustaining the performance development cultures that libraries require. The first step is to recognise that we all need to take leadership personally no matter whether we see ourselves as leaders or followers.…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Administrative Principles, Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility
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McMillan, James H. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2011
In the 2000 movie "The Perfect Storm," there is an unusual convergence of several critical weather factors that set the stage for a destructive outcome that takes both property and lives. It has become a popular metaphor to describe how events come together in a unique way to have an exceptional influence on something, typically a negative impact.…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Public Education, Educational Research, Educational Change
Facilities Manager, 2011
APPA's Effective & Innovative Practices Award continues to highlight the best of the most creative and practical programs and processes that enhance and transform service delivery, lower costs, increase productivity, improve customer service, generate revenue, or otherwise benefit an educational institution. This article features five 2011…
Descriptors: Productivity, Recognition (Achievement), Energy Management, Innovation
Levenson, Nathan – School Administrator, 2011
As resources shrink, the need to do more with less becomes critical. As a business CEO turned superintendent, this author has seen firsthand that many options exist, but none are fun, easy, or politically rewarding. He contends that the challenge of managing declining resources is not the choice between doing less for children or discovering new…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Educational Resources, Special Education, Paraprofessional School Personnel
Cho, Yonjoo; Jo, Sung Jun; Park, Sunyoung; Kang, Ingu; Chen, Zengguan – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2011
This study conducted a citation network analysis (CNA) of human performance technology (HPT) to examine its current state of the field. Previous reviews of the field have used traditional research methods, such as content analysis, survey, Delphi, and citation analysis. The distinctive features of CNA come from using a social network analysis…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Network Analysis, Performance Technology, Content Analysis
Chen, Chun-I Philip – ProQuest LLC, 2010
It is generally believed that Business to Business (B2B) e-commerce has a great impact on business performance improvement. Considerable research also shows that another dependent variable, B2B e-commerce success, can be a good overall measure of B2B systems. This paper investigated and examined the impact of several factors, which are either…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Performance Technology, Information Technology
Metz, Ruth F. – ALA Editions, 2010
Experienced librarian and coach Ruth Metz outlines a focused and results-oriented plan for achieving the best results from staff members through a coaching style of management. Real-world examples and coaching scenarios specific to library work will help librarians: (1) Be both a coach and a player by learning the terminology and techniques; (2)…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Coaching (Performance), Leadership Styles, Performance Technology
Weinstein, Margery – Training, 2010
A training department revamp is a huge, but not impossible, undertaking, and a chore that may be inevitable every now and then. Taking the plunge and deciding to rebuild one's training structure can offer a sizable return on investment to one's senior executives, and a more effective learning strategy for employees. The tricky part is ensuring the…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Change Strategies, Performance Technology, Program Implementation
Oded, Yaniv; Su, Bude – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2010
Performance at the Defense Language Institute was examined through the prism of human performance technology and the strategic impact model. This examination revealed performance deficiencies in the administrative realm that required mainly a noninstructional intervention. A systematic analysis showed that digitizing administrative procedures…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Models, Intervention, Employees
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Stivers, Richard – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2010
Aldous Huxley is perhaps the only author to have written a work of science fiction and a work of nonfiction to ascertain whether fiction had become reality. Both "Brave New World" and "Brave New World Revisited" are discussed and compared with Jacques Ellul's work on technology.
Descriptors: Science Fiction, Educational Sociology, Science and Society, Didacticism
de St. Aubin, Shawn-Laree – Exceptional Parent, 2010
This article explains how Asssistive Technology products move from research and development into the hands of children. The assistive technology (AT) industry is maturing, with many exciting new technologies under development in university settings, by individual inventors and engineers, and by leading AT and information technology (IT) companies.…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Educational Technology, Assistive Technology, Accessibility (for Disabled)
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Phillips, Jennie – Performance Improvement, 2010
Most organizations focus on one-off training solutions to address a single workplace learning need at a single time rather than integrating learning and nonlearning interventions to help staff develop increasingly complex levels of expertise specific to their jobs. Curriculum is a long-term, integrated approach to training in which workers take…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Education Work Relationship, Instructional Design, Change Strategies
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Chong, Raymond K. Y.; Mills, Bradley; Dailey, Leanna; Lane, Elizabeth; Smith, Sarah; Lee, Kyoung-Hyun – Neuropsychologia, 2010
We tested the hypothesis that a computational overload results when two activities, one motor and the other cognitive that draw on the same neural processing pathways, are performed concurrently. Healthy young adult subjects carried out two seemingly distinct tasks of maintaining standing balance control under conditions of low (eyes closed),…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Cognitive Processes, Spatial Ability, Human Body
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Berg, Morten Emil; Karlsen, Jan Terje – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: The focus of this paper is on management training and development. The purpose has been to address how coaching can be applied to learn about leadership tools and what effect this has on management behaviour and development. Design/methodology/approach: This is a qualitative case study of a management development program. The empirical…
Descriptors: Training Methods, Management Development, Leadership, Coaching (Performance)
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Kaufman, Roger; Bernardez, Mariano L. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2012
Conventional human performance technology has had a good run. It allowed scientific and data-based research to be applied to improve performance, usually just individual performance. The field must be expanded without losing this individual performance focus to include a scope that measurably improves performance for individuals and organizations…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Organizational Change, Organizational Development, Models
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