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Goh, Ah Bee; Chakpitak, Nopasit; Sureephong, Pradorn – International Education Studies, 2015
This paper reports the findings of the case study conducted at Schaffner Thailand (ST) factory regarding the application of the ROFO principle coupled with companywide training on the execution of Lean Production (LP) strategy. The case study was motivated by 3 main objectives: 1) to examine the effectiveness of the ROFO principle and companywide…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrative Principles, Productivity, Industrial Training
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Engel, Mimi; Finch, Maida A. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2015
Despite the importance of teachers and the fact that teacher hiring is decentralized in most school districts, we know relatively little about the process through which individual principals hire faculty for their schools. Using interviews with 31 Chicago principals, we explore how principals find job candidates, whether they collaborate with…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Principals, Urban Schools, Interviews
Myung, Jeannie; Martinez, Krissia – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2013
Across the country, districts are committing to observing, assessing, and giving feedback to teachers multiple times a year. Currently, school systems are dedicating an enormous amount of effort to accumulating data on teachers, but the field still has a lot to learn about how best to use data to support the improvement of teaching. This brief,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Change Strategies, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Teacher Evaluation
Immerwahr, John; Johnson, Jean – National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2010
Six out of ten Americans now say that colleges today operate more like a business, focused more on the bottom line than on the educational experience of students. Further, the number of people who feel this way has increased by five percentage points in the last year alone and is up by eight percentage points since 2007. These are highlights from…
Descriptors: Higher Education, National Surveys, Educational Attitudes, Public Opinion
Chambers, Jay G.; Harper, Dorothy T.; Manship, Karen; Rosas, Rigo; Brown, James R. – Strategic School Funding for Results, 2010
The Strategic School Funding for Results (SSFR) interviews began in November of 2009 with focus group interviews of the Superintendent's Cabinet. Individual principal interviews were conducted between January 15 and January 22 of 2010. Two elementary, two middle-, and one high school principal were interviewed. The AIR/PLP (American Institutes for…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Interviews, School Districts, Principals
Gullo, Krista; Haygood, Leah – National Environmental Education Foundation, 2009
When the modern U.S. environmental movement began in the 1970s, it relied largely on regulation to reduce negative environmental impacts. Companies responded by creating centers of environmental expertise within their organizations. The major focus of a second wave of corporate environmentalism, which began during the late 1980s, was on…
Descriptors: Employees, Environmental Education, Case Studies, Surveys
Easton, Claire; Wilson, Rebekah; Sharp, Caroline – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2005
This report sets out to provide the National Remodelling Team (NRT) with comprehensive details on stakeholders' views about the second year of the remodelling programme. This report is divided into nine chapters: (1) Introduction; (2) outlines the aims of the evaluation and the methodology used; (3) describes the findings from the survey of local…
Descriptors: Management Development, Educational Finance, Professional Development, Money Management