Documentation presented concerns the planning, implementation, and evaluation that took place in the development of a club program in a public intermediate school in New York City. The club program provides activities during the lunchtime period that expand and/or enrich the school curriculum offerings. Club activities offered were a rap group and…

This guide discusses organizational effectiveness, and is divided into the following sections: (1) Preface; (2) Effectiveness as a Construct; (3) The Task Objective Model; (4) How to Assess Effectiveness; (5) Research to be Done; and (6) References. (Author/JLL)

This guide to simplified performance management approaches contains five sections. The first section, entitled "Simple Techniques for Managing an Innovation," is written from the viewpoint of a principal as manager. It describes how to manage an innovation, develop an objective, allocate resources for the innovation, keep organized…

Management by objectives (MBO) is a process in which organizational members at all levels participate in management, goals are established and objectives are specified, a system is developed to monitor the implementation of planned activities, and progress is measured relevant to achievement of objectives. Specific activities and events must be…

Public education needs the results orientation and performance accountability mandated by a management system. Schools need a management system around which to lay plans to solve problems and reach ever higher levels of accomplishment in serving the needs of students. Management by objectives provides the school administrator with such a…

In this speech, the author addresses the issue of how school administrators can be formally evaluated. A plan is described for evaluating administrators that has as its primary purpose improving their performance and stimulating their growth. The plan integrates supervision and evaluation; is individualized and consistent with sound educational…

Staff members of the Division of Vocational-Technical Education and teacher educators attended a 4-day conference for the purpose of exploring the applicability of the management by objectives (MBO) process to vocational education. Conference presentations included: (1) "What Is Already Happening as Part of MBO?" by W. Russell Smith, (2)…

The advantages of participative management under MBO are examined in this article. MBO's value lies in its ability to improve communication and relations among employers and employees. (DS)

To promote greater accountability, supervisors in mental health facilities will be required to monitor activities of their organizations. The Outpatient Division of the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences has developed an administrative accounting based on management by objectives. Presents the evolution, philosophy, and format of the…

Lists 60 problems (and suggestions for their solution) that arose during the adoption of a management by objectives program, were suggested by that experience, or came out of the literature. (IRT)

The techniques and methodologies of "management by objectives" is suggested to be of value in improving the nature and rate of application of clinical supervision and in improving inservice teacher training and evaluation. (MJB)

Public pressure, political, and bureaucratic imperatives create a tension between the federal government and the research community in pursuing their mutual goal of improving education. (Author/JP)

Each of the 24 administrators brings his concerns to the team for discussion and suggestions. At the request of team members, priorities are set and the individual administrator attacks his own objectives in the most professional manner possible. Inherent in the program are built-in methods for proceeding towards attainable goals, progress checks,…

Author contends that much of the confusion that comes to those who seek to understand and then to implement MBO lies in the special interpretations attached to it or in the unique emphasis placed on particular parts of it by various writers. (Author/CB)