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Download full textChristman, Jolley Bruce – 1998
Philadelphia's school reform initiative, Children Achieving" was evaluated. The focus in this report is on decentralization, exploring how Children Achieving is strengthening schools' capacity to make and carry out informed decisions that lead to schoolwide standards, how the new structures are working at various levels of the system, and how…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decentralization, Educational Administration, Educational Change
Brody, Celeste M., Ed.; Davidson, Neil, Ed. – 1998
This book describes approaches to professional development for cooperative learning and how the use of cooperative learning for teacher learning is leading to new insights into professional growth in schools. Part 1, "Begin with the Teacher: Focusing Professional Development for Cooperative Learning," offers "Introduction:…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Learning, Decision Making
1997
This document contains four papers from a symposium on evaluation in human resource development (HRD). The first paper, "HRD Evaluation as the Catalyst for Organizational Learning" (Hallie Preskill), argues that HRD practitioners must stop considering evaluation a periodic event focused on a narrow set of variables and begin viewing it…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Critical Incidents Method, Evaluation Methods, Human Resources
Oboh, Aigbehi Henry – 1990
A study investigated the use of training needs assessment (TNA) by training and development practitioners in business and industry. It allowed for an assessment of both real TNA (practitioners' knowledge, observation, and experience) and ideal TNA (the literature and experts' opinions). A literature review focused on the concept of TNA,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Business, Education Work Relationship
Hertzler, Elizabeth – 1994
The implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM) in an organization implies a fundamental change in the way that organization functions. Therefore an examination of the adoption of the TQM philosophy necessitates a review of the most significant and latest literature on change theory and on the impact of organizational culture on change, as…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Business, Change Strategies, College Administration
Chene, Adele – 1993
A study explored training from the perspective of the trainees, what it meant for them when they were faced with a major reorganization of their work, and what its impact was. Data were collected from 10 women operators working in cellular manufacturing, 2 foremen, and 1 forewoman. The interviewees selected by the management had converted to…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Education Work Relationship, Educational Research, Employee Attitudes
Witt, Allen A.; And Others – 1994
Tracing the nationwide development of the American community college from initial concept to its present position as the largest and fastest-growing sector of higher education, this book relates the development of the colleges to social and economic conditions in the country. Following a foreword and preface, the first two chapters examine the…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), College Role, Community Colleges, Educational History
Shiffer, Michael W. – 1994
A study examined the impact of work teams on production, quality, and morale within the State of Alaska Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, using data from fiscal years 1992 and 1993 when a change from a hierarchical organization to a team-based approach took place in the agency. Production was defined as the percentage of placements achieved…
Descriptors: Adults, Job Development, Job Placement, Management Teams
Brooks, Annie, Ed.; Watkins, Karen, Ed. – 1994
This document contains the following 26 papers presented at the first Academy of Human Resource Development (HRD) Conference: "Management as a Service to Internal Customers" (Antonioni); "Developing Texas State Agency Executives for the Learning Organizations" (Bales); "How Executive Businesswomen Develop and Function in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
Johnson, Samuel D., Jr., Ed.; Carter, Robert T., Ed. – 1992
Papers from this year's conference reflect the Roundtable's theme of addressing cultural issues in an organizational context. Topics cover a wide range of institutional and organizational issues in corporate, educational, and treatment settings. Papers include: (1) "The New Corporate Language for Race Relations" (keynote) (Clayton P.…
Descriptors: Black Students, Context Effect, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Sachs, Judyth – 1994
This paper clarifies the problems of meaning and translation into practice of concepts of "quality" in higher education by examining a quality improvement program at Griffith University (Queensland, Australia). The paper notes that Australian government agencies have advanced a quality assurance (QA) approach concerned with the…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Role, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality
Kirkland, Travis P. – 1991
The rate of turnover among community college chief executive officers (CEO's) is high, but the effects of administrator succession on organizational effectiveness has received little scholarly attention. To address this, a theory of community college CEO succession was derived from an analysis of case study data gathered at four locally governed…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Selection
Bureau of Labor-Management Relations and Cooperative Programs (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1991
This booklet synthesizes symposium discussions exploring how to transform organizations to compete in the rapidly changing world economy. First, the new cooperative organization is defined. Next, practical advice on making partnership organizations a reality is summarized. Suggestions include appealing to people's self-interest; coming up with…
Descriptors: Adults, Business Communication, Career Education, Collegiality
PDF pending restorationConyne, Robert K. – 1983
This document presents a model for student organization development, defining in detail the central conditions for the CORE model (Cohesion, Organization, Resourcefulness, and Energy); and provides an assessment tool, the CORE Conditions Checklist, for checking the extent to which these conditions are present in organizations. The CORE model is…
Descriptors: College Students, Evaluation Methods, Extracurricular Activities, Group Dynamics
Peters, Thomas J.; Yonai, Barbara A. – ACU-I Bulletin, 1989
The idea of making college students more comfortable with their campus environment through involvement in extracurricular activities, thus helping them remain in school, has never been argued by those in the college union field. Nevertheless, efforts and theories in this endeavor have been rarely supported by research and evaluation. Reliable and…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Environment, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research
