In order to change organization structure and management style, the situation in which people operate must first be changed, which in turn affects behavior and attitudes. Specific ways in which to produce the desired attitudes through manipulation of the environment are described. (Author)

The article describes the proposed reorganization of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) into the major divisions of management, instructional design, and program production with special interest groups based on what members produce and where they live and work. (MS)

For the past three years, Newport Harbor High School (N.H.H.S.) has been engaged in Organization Development efforts. This article attempts to give some sense of that endeavor. (Author)

What hopefully will be clarified in this article will be the relationship of organizational development to planned change, and more particularly, futures. (Author)

Institutions of higher education that have become disenchanted with the traditional ways of organizing student personnel services have begun to seek a new model. This model calls for the creation of a new university office called University Affairs, at least one subunit of which would be student affairs. (Author/WM)

Examples show that conflict can promote needed change, give the disenfranchised a vote, encourage the search for alternatives, and operate simultaneously with progress. (Author/MLF)

The 10 foremost issues in American education are discussed in this document. Based on the premise that three-quarters of the effects on an institution are triggered by external forces, the focus is on external influences on education. The discussion is intended to move readers to the level of organizational discussion and debate. Twelve sections…

In recent years, the literature on community college education has included little material on instructional quality in these institutions. This absence of a discussion of quality teaching indicates a serious weakness in community college education that could be remedied by taking some lessons from the corporate sector. Three characteristics have…

The author discusses improvement in quality of special education through the use of the individualized education program (IEP) as a placement, instructional, and planning tool. Conditions necessary for using the IEP effectively are listed. Implementation of the IEP as placement, instructional, and planning tools is noted to depend on four…

The nature of State education agencies and of the environment in which they operate often diminishes their ability to bring about educational improvements even when the agencies are given the money to do so. (Author/DN)

Social workers are turning increasingly to organized data to describe, test, and improve their programs. Computerized information systems, sharply focused field experiments, and scientifically based behavioral models of practice will be prominent in social work in the 1980s. (Author)

The school as an organization has certain peculiarities which pose particular problems of management. There are a number of interlinked problems which need analysis: control over 'work flow', structural looseness, a professional work-force, 'information flow', boundaries control, and management of innovation. (Author)

Presents a core typology of organizational environments consisting of 64 types which can be expanded depending on the user's interest and problems. Different types of environments have consequences for the planning of strategies, operations, and tactics; coalition behavior; and decisionmaking. (Author)

Article examines the problems inherent in conflictual views of change processes in one of society's most influential external forces for change in human beings--- the educational institution itself. (Editor)

New organizational arrangements are required to solve the problems confronting a rapidly changing society. A dynamic, ongoing organization responsive to the requirements of this new era can be designed from a systems approach in terms of inputs, conversion process, and outputs. (Author/DN)