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Cleveland, Harlan – AGB Reports, 1975
The author argues that very wide consultation tends to discourage innovation and favor stand-pattism and that the very great benefits of openness and wide participation are flawed by apathy and non-participation, by muscle-binding legalisms, by processes which polarize two adversary sides, and by the encouragement of mediocrity. (JT)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems, Administrator Role
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
Download full textWayson, William W. – 1975
This paper examines urban schools serving minorities, and begins by arguing that inservice development is the greatest need of the American school system, one that needs many things. The time that a teacher spends in effective inservice activity is more important for the future of pupils than the same amount of time spent with those pupils. Though…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems, Decentralization, Decision Making
Gaynor, Alan Kibbe – 1998
This book is directed toward students in organizational-theory and problem-analysis classes and their professors, as well as school administrators seeking to examine their problems and policies from new perspectives. It explains and illustrates methodology for describing, documenting, and analyzing organizational problems. Part I, "Methodology,"…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems, Bureaucracy
Chaffee, Ellen Earle; Tierney, William G. – 1988
A hands-on study for executives, researchers, and students who want to better understand how organizational culture can support or impede decision making strategies in a complex changing collegiate environment is provided. Leadership strategies and institutional problems are described. Seven different collegiate cultures are explored via case…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems, Case Studies, Church Related Colleges
Zerchykov, Ross – 1982
This review of the literature focuses on the effects of enrollment and fiscal decline on local school district management and also looks at the effects of local districts' policy responses to decline. The review's five sections include an overview of the kinds of literature available on decline; a summary of the main policy issues identified in…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems, Annotated Bibliographies, Board of Education Policy
