Compares financial and human resource allocations for education and the military in Asian countries. Statistical evidence indicates cutbacks in educational allocations but none in military funding. (AM)

The author challenges traditional views of productivity and offers alternative concepts and models for evaluating resources and their relationships to productivity. He discusses how to measure productivity, how to measure effectiveness, applying a productivity formula, coping with a cost cutback, adjusting to a variable workload, and benefits from…

Examines inheritance practices reflecting changes in family relationships in a largely rural area from 1820 to 1967. A stratified sample of 60 probated wills was content analyzed. A familistic inheritance pattern dominated, indicating the strong influences of testator obligation to family with highest priority to conjugal relations. (Author/JAC)

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a mathematical model for measuring decision-making units' efficiency, was applied to resource allocation information in the division of occupational and technical programs at San Antonio (Texas) College. Input-output data were used to analyze existing programs' efficiency and proposed program modifications. (RW)

Research indicates that school microcomputer use is associated with the wealth of the school district. Wealthier districts are more likely to utilize the higher level uses of the computer, whereas less affluent schools tend to use computers in computer-assisted instruction of the drill and practice variety. (MLF)

Several questions related to population and the use of resources are posed and discussed, with suggestions on how they might be used with students. (MNS)

A budget reduction formula is proposed that relates financial planning to program evaluation, faculty resources, and departmental activity levels. The formula is flexible, can be manipulated to describe each academic unit's intrinsic characteristics, and can redistribute to reflect changing institutional priorities. (Author/MSE)

Describes the intensive German program at North Texas State University. Shows how the intensive course model may be adapted to tight budgets. (EKN)

Financial analysis uses accounting and other financial information to help administrators relate costs to benefits or effectiveness to assist with both short- and long-range decisions. (Author/SSH)

Forty-two Nigerian secondary schools gave information about learning resources in pupils' homes, school-provided textbooks and newspapers, classroom furniture and equipment, staffing ratios, games and recreational facilities, and parental support. In most categories, rural schools were less well equipped than urban schools, an inequity possibly…

Drawing on research literature concerning administrative support of educational change and on findings from two research projects, the author defines administrative support to include promoting project interests through verbal statements, providing clarity and steadiness to participants, definding project goals and activities, and giving projects…

Examines the reactions of three San Francisco (California) hospitals to the 1975 doctors' strike. Analyzes the anticipatory, responsive, and readjustment phases of the hospitals' adaptations in terms of each hospital's previous market strategy, organizational structure and ideology, and deployment of slack resources, including financial, human,…

The case of Brown v Topeka has had important consequences affecting the availability and allocation of funds for public schooling. Research to more accurately identify and explain these financial effects will be hampered by such problems as lack of standardized accounting systems, distortions of desegregation costs, and ambiguities of policy.…

The issues of whether decision making is guided by philosophy or whether pressures cause priorities and values to be shifted is explored through this description of resource allocation in a continuing education division of a large urban community college. (SK)

Discusses the functions of business planning systems and analyzes the underlying assumptions of the information systems that support strategic planning efforts within organizations. Development of a system framework, obstacles to the successful creation of strategic planning information systems, and resource allocation in organizations are…