Management is a structure of authority and responsibility and a process of direction and motivation whereby the stated purpose of people working together within a particular enterprise with a particular supply of resources and with a particular technology can be accomplished. Higher education could probably learn from business management, but only…

Discusses useful methods of conflict management for higher education institutions. (PG)

A warning against the dangers of treating an academic institution as a system susceptible of management. (Editor)

This paper proposes a method for understanding the relationships among the various value systems that underlie administrative thinking. The system takes into account the psychological faculties affecting ethical decisions, the philosophical orientations involved, and distinctions between the concepts of "right" and "good." The paper opens with…

These two speeches deal with management by objectives (MBO). The first explains the rationale for such a system based on systems theory, surveys and research projects, and research in the field of behavioral sciences. It is a system of organizational leadership that translates organizational goals into specific objectives for organization members…

This is the report of a conference sponsored by the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. The conference discussed the findings of the Centre's 2-year program which attempted to demonstrate how the resource management of universities may be improved through better decisionmaking in the realms of finance, information, human flows, the use…

This document on personnel management in higher education contains three papers that are designed to be used as guidelines for educational administrators. The first two papers, by John D. Millett, discuss the scope and problems of higher education administration and the problems associated with collective bargaining and tenure on college campuses.…

Exhorts higher education managers to attack not only small problems, but to see all sides of large issues to perceive its elements, thereby improving understanding of yourself and your job. (PG)

This publication defines and illustrates approximately 80 terms and concepts that are crucial to understanding the Educational Management Project, a comprehensive inservice program for educational administrators that was developed by the Tucson Public Schools. Annotations for the individual terms vary in length from approximately 30 to 350 words…

Not new in principle, management by objectives (MBO) focuses on the goals of an institution stated as end accomplishments. Community college administrators have been attracted by the reputed benefits of MBO: increased productivity, improved planning, maximized profits, objective managerial evaluation, and improved participant morale. This paper…

A comparison of leadership theory and administrative theory will help to show whether there is a conflict for educational administrators between being a leader and being an administrator. Two definitions of leadership stress the importance of initiating activities within a group. In education, leadership necessitates decision-making within an…

One of the main inadequacies in educational management is that planning is not firmly integrated within administration. Five basic processes may be distinguished in administration. The first is planning, or determining what shall be done. The second element of the administrative process is organizing, or defining the administrative structures and…

To use universities effectively in the development of critical administrative skills, we need to attend to the problems posed by the context of decline and by the nature of educational organizations, managerial work, and university comparative advantage. Five analytical skills are identified as satisfying such criteria. (Author)