Data Envelopment Analysis has become a popular tool for evaluating the efficiency of decision making units. The nonparametric approach has been widely applied to educational production. The approach is, however, deterministic and leads to biased estimates of performance in the presence of measurement error. Numerous simulation studies confirm the…

Guides for mail-handling efficiency from the mailroom supervisor at Michigan State University. (MLF)

Evidence from Korea suggests feelings of professional inefficacy among journalists in developing countries may be linked to an intimate knowledge of politics and a lack of professional commitment and career tenure. (RB)

While most organizations could easily outstrip their current productivity, most managers don't communicate expectations of high achievement in a way that produces results. After analyzing the psychological barriers that keep managers from expecting and demanding more from their subordinates, the author outlines a five-point plan to upgrade…

Discusses ways to analyze one's scheduling of time to increase productivity. (MLH)

Suggests that, upon close inspection, an increase in the use of paraprofessionals at the reference desk is undesirable due to false assumptions about the ability of patrons to ask for what they want and of professional librarians to provide better service at higher levels of efficiency. (JD)

Presents several time management rules intended to help school administrators improve their efficiency and leadership effectiveness. (JG)

The authors suggest a method for analyzing the costs and benefits of recordkeeping systems for individualized instruction programs. (DS)

A new lighting system saves electricity and the lighting level is five times better than previously, at Citrus College in Los Angeles County, California. (Author/MLF)

Discusses how women library managers can use efficient time management techniques to help them make the best of both career and home work environments. Nine basic steps to greater efficiency are presented, and external and internal time wasters are listed. (EM)

Using a minute-by-minute observational chart, classroom activities and student involvement may be recorded. Such a record is valuable for noting students' and teachers' time on task. (JW)

Constructing a problem for dynamic programming requires the listing of units, e.g., chapters, which might be included, together with possible levels of effort or cost and judged values for all usage levels. Given such a table and total permissable cost, a computer program will generate a prescription for optimal curriculum. (MV)

Productivity can be exciting and personally rewarding. Work habits can be changed to make the hours worked be more effective. (Author/MLF)

This paper argues that governance and institutional purpose are related, and that proposals to make governance more efficient by reducing or limiting the faculty role in shared governance are more likely to diminish institutional effectiveness. The rationalization of governance would not only reduce faculty trust and cooperation, delegitimize the…

Examines ways in which early childhood teachers and directors waste time during the course of the working day and provides suggestions as to how time wasting can be avoided. (Author/PW)