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Meeting Communication Challenges at BFGoodrich.
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Ong, John D. – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1993
Discusses three guidelines that can help managers through the maze of communication planning and execution: (1) be honest, open and accessible; (2) be prepared; and (3) be flexible. Outlines three communication "challenges" involving BFGoodrich that illustrate these guidelines. (RS)
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems, Case Studies, Guidelines
Marketing and Community Mental Health Centers.
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Ferniany, Isaac W.; Garove, William E. – Administration in Mental Health, 1983
Suggests that a marketing approach can be applied to community mental health centers. Marketing is a management orientation of providing services for, not to, patients in a systematic manner, which can help mental health centers improve services, strengthen community image, achieve financial independence and aid in staff recruitment. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems, Delivery Systems, Institutional Advancement
Evolution in the Profession.
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Goldhammer, Keith – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1983
This essay examines the growth of professionalism in educational administration and concludes that early promise was not fulfilled, mainly because social and political factors influenced training programs and practice more than did research and theory. Areas in which educational administration still falls short of professionalism are discussed.…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems, Administrator Education, Administrator Role
Minding Your Business: How to Avoid the Seven Deadly Financial Pitfalls.
Stephens, Keith – Child Care Information Exchange, 1990
Describes financial management problems typically encountered by child care center directors and owners. Offers suggestions for planning and management techniques to overcome problems of cash flow, budgeting, rising costs, underpricing, declining revenues, fee collection, and liquidity. (NH)
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems, Administrator Guides, Budgeting
Advice for First-Time Library Directors on Managing a Library.
Piccininni, James – Library Administration and Management, 1996
Provides insights from experienced managers that may be useful for newly appointed library managers or directors, and details the issues they will face as supervisors. Highlights include decision making and change; motivation and delegation; general observations about management, such as coping with stresses; clarification of goals; and ethics.…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Evolution in Practice.
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Hess, Fritz – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1983
Conditions of administrative practice in 1959 are summarized and influences shaping the transformation of schools and administrators' roles since then examined. The thesis is that basic assumptions of practice have been revised and that present administrators must be more political and advocative while functioning under more stress. (MJL)
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems, Administrator Role, Educational Administration
Improving the Federal Administration of Education Programs.
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Gideonse, Hendrik D. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1980
The distinctive circumstances, requirements, and attitudes of the federal bureaucracy are contrasted with the culture of other elements of American society and disadvantages of this cultural conflict are discussed. Suggestions are made for policies that might result in more effective and more generally acceptable government programs. (CTM)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems, Bureaucracy
Incorporating Social Style into Administrative Team-Building in the Community College.
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Darling, John R.; McNutt, Anne S. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1996
Describes four social styles (amiable, analytical, driver, and expressive) and strengths and weaknesses associated with each. Suggests that administrative team building can be enhanced by considering individual styles. Discusses the importance of style flex, or interacting within others' comfort zones without compromising one's own style. A social…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Behavior