One of the enduring questions in health administration concerns the transferability of management expertise from industry to the health enterprise. Some observers hold that the efficiencies associated with industry reflect methods and skills that are widely applicable and somehow lacking in the health field. Thus, the task force responsible for…

Operational similarities are examined with respect to the transfer of management science techniques from the private business sector to the university community. The author's conclusion, supported by a study by the Academy for Educational Development, is that the differences in social purposes, contributions, and management processes are more…

Higher education should prepare students to cope with a world where change is the only constant. Speech given at NASPA Conference, Kansas City, April 4, 1978. (Author)

Delegation involves responsibility and authority for each staff member in the 4-H program. (ABM)

Offers a systematic critical response to the values-oriented, nonpositivist conception of administration and philosophy of administration recently advanced by Christopher Hodgkinson. Argues that Hodgkinson's theory is much closer to the positivism espoused by H. A. Simon. An alternative, nonpositivist basis for values in administrative theory is…

Various concepts from "In Search of Excellence" are described in context of authors' personal styles. Discussions address thinking in terms of options, using statistics, learning value of corporate politics, a bias toward action, productivity through people, the "lean-machine" concept, staying close to client, entrepreneurship…

Available from: The Buckeye Association of School Administrators, 750 Brooksedge Blvd., Westerville, Ohio 43081; $8.00 annually.

Effective managers and professionals in all walks of life have to become skilled in the art of "reading" the situations they are attempting to organize or manage. Ways in which individuals can develop the art of reading and understanding organizational life are presented in this book. It focuses on the premise that all theories of…

This booklet describes the rationale, design, and structure for conferences organized for school principals. Drawing on the experiences of New York City's Community School District 2, it describes standards-based professional development for school leaders. It opens with a description of the District Network for Standards-Based Reform--a project…

Examines the different patterns of leadership behavior from which a manager can choose in relating with nonmanagers. Suggests a framework for managers caught in the dilemma of when to exert strong'' leadership and when to exercise permissive'' leadership. (WM)

Describes the experiences of California's first and only noneducator superintendent. (JF)

Examines decisionmaking conflicts between professional and bureaucratic subsystems in colleges and universities. (Author)

Codification of basic conditions of administrative freedom in a modern university setting. (Editor)

A statement formulated by educational administrators, trustees and foundation officers at the American Council on Education, Chicago, Illinois, April 4-5, 1969.