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Download full textOlsen, Johannes I.; Rice, Paul D. – 1974
There are numerous indications that school districts across the nation increasingly view year-round school operation as much for the opportunities to improve the educational program as for reasons of space utilization or economy. Additionally, a year-round school operation could capitalize on the school's capability for individualization of…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Extended School Year
Israel, Joseph, A.; Savitsky, Albert M. – 1972
A human relations laboratory for junior high school personnel was conducted as an in-service offering by two counselors. The purpose of the laboratory was to develop in the participants an appreciation of, and a capacity to perform, three primary learning tasks: (1) generation of valid and useful information; (2) organization of choices emanating…
Descriptors: Counselor Evaluation, Human Relations, Inservice Education, Laboratory Training
Seashore, Stanley E.; Bowers, David G. – 1970
A three-year study was made at a printing firm which had experienced rapid post-war expansion followed by conditions of tension, uncertainty, and confusion when some product lines were found to be in over supply or unprofitable. There was a growing distance between management and workers. An experimental program for three of the five company…
Descriptors: Administration, Attendance, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
The Organizational Inventory Meeting: A Method of Gaining and Integrating Administrative Commitment.
Croft, John C.; Barker, Catherine – 1971
This paper reports on the history, rationale, procedures, and results of a 4-day meeting of 96 administrators, from two large school systems, who represented all levels of administration. The report sets forth participant attitudes toward specific parts of the 4-day event and indicates some of the outcomes of the meeting that were reflected in…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Behavioral Sciences, Consolidated Schools
Burnham, Robert A. – 1971
Conceptualizing organizations as open systems of interrelated variables, this study of 184 Illinois school districts determined the relationships among innovation adoption, selected organizational characteristics, and environmental variability. Organizational characteristics were differentiation (development of specialized organizational…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Correlation, Cultural Interrelationships, Demography
Deep, Samuel D. – 1971
This report describes self-administered exercises on management and organizational development that emphasize a participative approach in small groups. The Program of Exercises (PEX), an integrated set of exercises, incorporates case study, role playing, programed instruction, and sensitivity training. The training provides a series of experiences…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Decision Making Skills, Educational Administration, Interpersonal Relationship
Hatley, Richard V.; Miskel, Cecil G. – 1973
Demand articulators called for changing and strengthening programs in educational administration at the University of Kansas. As a result of activities over a 2-year period, the existing program was discarded and a new one adopted reflecting an interdisciplinary leadership and decisionmaking rationale conceptualized with a systemic framework. The…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Course Evaluation, Educational Administration, Graduate Study
Croft, John C. – 1971
Organizational development and planning, two methods currently employed to improve organizations, have a mutual objective -- organization improvement through systematic goal attainment. Organizational development strives to improve administrator behavior to facilitate interpersonal communication between those individuals responsible for the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Case Studies
Chesler, Mark; And Others – 1972
This manual provides guides to assist consultants discover, create, and maintain meaningful changes in secondary schools. Among the change issues discussed are the politics of educational racism, youth oppression, and professionalism; and patterns of conflict. To assist in the retraining of consultants in the processes and strategies of change,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Conflict, Consultants, Education
Campbell, Roald F. – 1971
Schools are currently under the many strains and stresses involving change, such as concern with the nature and purpose of schools, the growth of alternative systems, the push for new structures, the demands of new participants, financial worries, and interventions from State and national agencies. Each of these strains creates problems in…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Organization, Agency Cooperation, Decentralization
Cochrane, D. – 1971
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a working paper that considers both the academic and financial implications of introducing year-round instruction in Australian universities. Year-round teaching may improve the quality of education, accelerate the rate of education for the existing enrollment, allow…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Educational Administration, Educational Quality, Higher Education
Objave (Ljubljana), 1971
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1500 words) of the Higher Education Act, the result of the development of higher education in Yugoslavia in 1968 and 1969. Some institutions were abolished, while others were merged. More student participation was provided for in the Act. The Act allows higher education institutions to…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Administrative Change, Administrative Policy, Administrator Responsibility
El-Gohary, Z. M.; Hussein, M. I. – 1969
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a study of the development of education in the UAR since 1959. Education in the UAR is a major enterprise, and compared with other public activities, it employs far more people, spends far more money, and affects far more people both directly and indirectly. In the…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Administrative Policy, Administrator Responsibility, Decentralization
Baldridge, J. Victor – 1971
This paper for educational administrators and researchers, and theorists begins with a discussion of the role of intellectual paradigms in the development of science, and outlines some of the general social science paradigms that have been dominant in organization theory. A classification scheme is constructed, based on Udy's organizational…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Group Dynamics, Models, Operations Research
Klawuhn, Raymond E.; Basso, Alexander J. – 1972
The American Management Association examined the feasibility of improving the effectiveness of educational institutions through business management principles. Target systems were the State Agency Executive Staff, the State Agency Division of Program Services, and two local districts each in Maryland and North Carolina. Each management team from…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, Administrator Education, Administrators
