If America's schools are to meet the needs of the 21st Century, they must be reinvented and restructured. This book is no restructuring cookbook, but is designed to provide ingredients that may be useful in inventing recipes to satisfy local tastes. Chapter 1 discusses purpose in the life of organizations, concentrating explicitly on purpose in…

Meant to be a practical guide for public relations educators and practitioners responsible for anticipating change and helping their organizations adapt, this guide presents 10 predictions and projected demographic data for the year 2000. Also included for each prediction in the guide are implications for public relations practice. The guide…

This handbook is designed to assist the leadership of a professional association in its efforts to consolidate with other professional adult educational organizations. It has three parts. The first is a brief essay on the process of change. It considers the individual decision and the collective decision as well as other factors, such as the…

Frequently, the behavior of researchers reflects important and otherwise unrecognized aspects of the phenomenon which is being studied or evaluated. In other words, the "processes" of the researcher are "parallel" to the "processes" of the entity being studied. These parallel processes are illustrated with examples…

Author is convinced that organizational development is a valuable tool for improving the educational climate in schools. (GB)

In an era of change in business and industry four quiet revolutions are going on: authority, information, technological, and educational. To adapt to this change a significant amount of organizational development will be needed in the areas of organization structure, motivation, job satisfaction, team building, industrial relations and conflict…

This paper argued that professional schools must adjust enrollments to meet public needs and must reorganize their curriculums in order to inculcate a broader sense of social responsibility on the part of the neophyte professionals and thereby assist in altering existing service models and delivery systems. (Editor/RK)

The basic question of this article is: How can information technology and behavioral theory be harnessed to build an approach of practical significance for school administrators facing continual organizational change? (Author)

Summary of authors' M.S. theses, University of Maryland, 1968

The governor of Michigan charged the Task Force on School Violence and Vandalism with the responsibility of developing recommendations designed to reduce school violence and vandalism. The Task Force was divided into five subcommittees: (1) Student Concerns, (2) Educational Personnel Concerns, (3) Law Enforcement and School Security Concerns, (4)…

SEVERAL STUDIES OF LABORATORY TRAINING PROGRAMS IN INDUSTRY ARE ASSESSED IN TERMS OF THEIR POTENTIAL USEFULNESS (DO THEY ACCOMPLISH INTENDED CHANGES IN PARTICIPANTS THAT ARE LASTING OR SELF-REINFORCING, AND HOW DO THEY COMPARE WITH OTHER METHODS IN ACCOMPLISHING SIMILAR GOALS) AND ACTUAL CONTRIBUTION (DOES PARTICIPATION LEAD TO LASTING CHANGE IN…