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Volkov, Boris B. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2011
The chapter explores critical roles of internal evaluators in contemporary organizational settings. The need is highlighted for an expanded, reconfigured, unorthodox set of roles and styles of work to meet the needs of the emerging learning organizations effectively. A discussion of major categories of internal evaluator roles emerged from the…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Evaluative Thinking, Evaluation Methods, Role
Brown, F. R. – 1972
The objective of risk management is the reduction of the adverse effects of risks at a minimum cost through their identification, measurement, and control. The combination of protection and cost chosen should be based on the best data available and designed for a school's unique need. Risk management involves (1) discovery or identification, (2)…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrators, Costs, Decision Making
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Labovitz, Judy; Swanigan, Meryl – Journal of Library Administration, 1985
Various concepts from "In Search of Excellence" are described in context of authors' personal styles. Discussions address thinking in terms of options, using statistics, learning value of corporate politics, a bias toward action, productivity through people, the "lean-machine" concept, staying close to client, entrepreneurship…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Decision Making
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Darkenwald, Gordon G., Jr. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1971
Examines decisionmaking conflicts between professional and bureaucratic subsystems in colleges and universities. (Author)
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Administrators
Pressley, Milton M., Ed. – 1974
Given that management can be defined as the activity that allocates and utilizes resources to achieve group or organizational goals, anyone who is in a position to assign and use a group's or organization's human or nonhuman resuources may benefit by making use of selected readings from this bibliography. The editor has divided the bibliography…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Principles, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Brock, Henry C., III – 1973
Many educators and those outside the educational community think that the time is approaching rapidly--if in fact it has not already arrived--when school administrators charged with educational responsibilities and leadership can no longer be satisfied with merely getting the job done, but must consider the means by which a school's goals and…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrators, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cost Effectiveness
Isherwood, Geoffrey B. – Education Canada, 1995
Moral choice for educational administrators involves using conventional democratic principles as well as postconventional actions grounded in principles valued by administrators that are not covered by conventional morality. Presents two case studies involving the application of democratic principles and the formation of independent judgment in…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrators, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making