This article describes the systematic installation of a career education program on a local or on a regional level. (Author)

Sets forth series of steps as approach to design of an educational activity. They include the need objectives, constraints, and model. Cites an existing program. (Author/CJ)

A decision maker must organize information into a pattern that enables judgments to be made. Vocational education programs can be viewed as systems of components which can be categorized and interrelated for effective decision making. (SK)

Presents and evaluates a comprehensive client management system for suicide and crisis intervention services, consisting of five service designations: self-injury, crisis, active support, general support, and single contact. Self-injury clients received more contacts and more time in direct service. (Author)

Classifies work dealing with Management by Objectives (MBO), summarizes major findings of the research and suggests observations regarding implementation and maintenance of MBO programs. Researchers feel positive about MBO. They warn of the moderating powers of intervening variables. Properly maintained, MBO will do what it is designed to do.…

Uses the example of the Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence Basin Watershed to explore the conflict between current political jurisdictions and the ecosystem approach. (Contains 14 references.) (MDH)

Examines four aspects of administrative software systems implementation that college and university administrators need to understand to avoid implementation pitfalls. These include: (1) system complexity, (2) dangers of customization, (3) documentation, and (4) real costs. (DB)

Presents a schema for expert decisionmaking that can be used as a performance support tool. The ringshaped schema can be used in two ways: (1) beginning at the center with problemsetting and working outward to other supporting factors, or (2) skimming over the factors located in the outer ring to find a topic related to information about the…

Strategic management is concerned with determining the long-term goals of an enterprise and deciding on the most appropriate course of action to achieve them. Strategic planning can revive the entrepreneurial characteristics of a business whose survival otherwise could be threatened. (Author/WM)

The vocational educational module of the Rhode Island Educational Management Information System is a data base that is an ongoing system that has been designed both to grow and to be modified to meet the needs of local and State administrators in the management of vocational education within Rhode Island. (Author)

This pamphlet discusses the original rationale for university systems, points out some of the problems existing because of the definition of that rationale, and proposes a new responsibility for university systems and a new challenge for their leaders. The pamphlet affirms that the system chief executive officer (CEO) and board of governors are…

The operations consultant provides manpower and systems scheduling, operating procedures and programing, maintenance directions, and generally acts as the manager's agent to establish cost and control systems. He also works with the consulting engineer during the design phase in the development of operating criteria. (Author)

The article focuses on why the success of career development is largely dependent on the manager knowing how to develop subordinates. This is being accomplished through an advisory system by providing managers multiple leadership/education/training alternatives for specific developmental needs. (Author/BP)