Discusses tendencies in systems management procedures that are indicative of the curriculum field's social commitments, systems language as social rhetoric, and the constitutive aspect of systems procedures as they are applied today in education. (Author/GB)

A model with only ten or twenty decision variables can be more instructive than large scale cost simulation models. Research efforts should concentrate on understanding the order-of-magnitude effects of proposed policy changes on various indicators of system performance. (Author/VW)

A discussion of the problems and limitations concerned with organization development, which is simply a planned and continuous process of cultural" change within organizations, involving structure, management, and decision making. The author discusses the forces shaping of OD and its future. (Editor/JB)

Based on a position paper orginally presented at the Institute on Quantitative Methods in Librarianship at Ohio State University Libraries in August, 1969, this discusses some of the elements of management: motion, time and cost studies, operations research and other mathematical techniques, and data processing equipment. (Author)

Explores the pitfalls inherent in the technology of management by objectives. (Author/RA)

The Management and Planning System (MAPS), designed to provide a computer-based information storage and retrieval system to aid school board decision makers, is described. (DB)

Uses the concept of industrial and organizational bureaucracy and applies it systematically to the development of curriculum theory and practice. (Author)

Implementation of Management Information Systems (MIS) in colleges and universities frequently involves computing equipment problems. (IR)

Three university case studies - the University of Utah, Ohio State University and the University of Illinois - show varying levels of sophistication in their application, modification and practical use of management information systems. (Editor)

The author asserts that most of the failures associated with technological progress are due to poor systems engineering, not to poor device engineering. (Editor)

French research in the social sciences and humanities may change, due to a restructuring of government policies. The 1981-82 National Symposium on Research and Technology led to recommendations for job security for researchers, democratization of research management, and increased flexibility of management procedures. (AM)

Describes a rationale, instrument, and methodology to improve the practice of organization needs analysis. The approach involves the author's "career of the organization" exercise for the trainer's use in identifying organization problems and in conceptualizing the nature of needs-analysis problem solving relating to both individual and…