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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
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
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Brieve, Fred J. – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1978
Adult education administrators should constantly work toward effective utilization of time. Administrative effectiveness is a function of the relationship between goals and outcomes, both of which are conditioned by time. Suggests ways that administrators could make more effective use of their time. (EM)
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems, Administrator Responsibility
Lawrence, G. Ben, Ed.; Service, Allan L., Ed. – 1977
When resources are plentiful most enterprises flourish, including higher education, and the need for making difficult management decisions is not so pressing. In the late 1960's and early 1970's competing priorities for available resources, demographic forecasts of sharply declining enrollments among traditional college age populations, and public…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems
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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
Guruge, Ananda W. P. – 1969
This study begins with a look at current systems and practices in educational administration in an effort to identify the influence of certain interpersonal relationships on educational planning. Different types of planning organizations are then surveyed to illustrate that methods in and approaches to administration and planning are numerous. A…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Policy, Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems
Brown, Bill Wesley – 1970
The casebook is designed for use during graduate classes in administration and supervision in industrial-technical education, or for use by other individuals who are already employed or who are preparing for employment as administrators or supervisors. Problems and situations which can be solved in many different ways are presented for discussion.…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Policy, Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems
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