Rapid technological development, rising standards of living, and greater pressures of consumerism and consumer expectations have caused shorter product life cycles. Future organizational success will depend on organizations' abilities to respond to the changing opportunities and threats in the marketplace. As companies and products move through…

Describes results of turning to management consulting by Oakland Community College in Bloomfield Hills, Illinois. From an expensive, overstaffed custodial/maintenance department and inadequate work scheduling and supervision, Oakland went to a streamlined operation with procedures and manpower requirements optimized through use of a sophisticated…

The Los Alamitos School District, a poorer than average elementary district in southern California, has made a near complete transition from a traditional to a nongraded, team-teaching program with individualized instruction in reading and language arts. The results have been startlingly good. Describes how the district made the transition.…

The High School Self-Renewal Program is a multiphase program designed to facilitate individual school improvement. In this document the various stages of the Renewal process, as adopted by Bay Ridge High School, New York, are outlined. Both cabinet level and school level processes are described. The cabinet level entry stage was characterized by…

The location of medical teaching in the university presents an interesting problem for historians of medicine and higher education. Because the training of physicians has been included among the tasks of the university for so long and because medicine was the first of the professions to organize itself,scholars have tended to view the linkage of…

Some realistic changes in the traditional authority-responsibility organizational concepts, which would recognize creativity, initiative, influence, and potential accomplishments, would involve people in industry who do not have formal authority or status--just talent. (Author/BP)

Paper presented in part at the National Seminar on Adult Education (Chicago, Ill., February 1968), based upon research for doctoral dissertation at University of Chicago.

Educational change is a process occurring through time, a systemic and dynamic phenomenon in which every action leads to reactions in related areas of the system, and a multidimensional phenomenon requiring examination from the perspective of several disciplines. The success of an innovation depends on how the change process is managed, how the…

The Disciples of Christ, an indigenous American religious movement born on the frontier, grew rapidly until early in the twentieth century. Its growth was based on a rhetorical vision that offered a plausible interpretation of the data of the senses and accounted for developments in human activity and conditions. That rhetorical vision was linked…

SEVERAL CASES OF ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT ARE EXAMINED FOR COMMON STRATEGIES APPLIED IN A SELECTED GROUP OF CASES. STUDIES SELECTED MET THE CONCEPT OF ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT AND PROVIDED SUFFICIENT INFORMATION TO INDICATE CASE OUTCOME. AFTER SELECTING THE STUDIES, THE STRATEGY AND ISSUES OF EACH WERE IDENTIFIED, AND COMPARISONS WERE MADE OF…

The humanization of bureaucracies is essential in modern society. Traditionally, the training of administrators has emphasized three models of organizations. The first is the productivity model, the second model assumes that fulfilling the needs of organizational members will increase client satisfaction, and the third assumes a stable environment…

PROPOSED IS THE CREATION OF THREE NEW, INTERDEPENDENT MECHANISMS OF CITY GOVERNMENT--ELECTED DISTRICT COUNCILS, A DIVISION OF SOCIAL PLANNING, AND A BUREAU OF SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY. BECAUSE THE FUNCTION OF EACH UNIT IS CLOSELY INTERRELATED THEY SHOULD OPERATE IN CLOSE COLLABORATION. THIS REORGANIZED ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE WOULD BE ABLE TO DEAL…

Economic, demographic and political trends are three major forces affecting the educational system. Since 1945, rapidly changing technology has increased demands for expert manpower and eradicated or considerably decreased the need for unskilled labor. The educational system responds to this challenge by preparing professionally qualified…

This book discusses the need for organizational planning in a rapidly changing society and examines how a systems approach to needs assessment can meet that need. In the foreword, futurologist Earl Joseph discusses the phenomenon of social change and need for systematic planning to anticipate and direct change. In chapter 1, the authors present an…