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Precey, Robin – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2008
This article argues that education leaders in this country, and indeed leaders of other public services, are facing life-changing decisions. The way ahead is full of possibilities and pitfalls. The article employs the metaphor of a railway journey to explore these. In particular it considers the implications for leaders in terms of how they…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Leadership, Public Service Occupations, Public Service
Anderson, Eileen R. – 1982
Although personnel management in the public sector has become increasingly difficult because of recent social changes, more worker and middle management involvement in decision-making processes can improve all levels of personnel management. The social changes affecting personnel management have assumed three forms: (1) the entrance into the work…
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Motivation, Participative Decision Making, Personnel Management
Mohapatra, Manindra K.; And Others – 1989
A study was conducted of professional socialization, public service values, and political orientations of the state administrators in Kentucky. A sample of 3,000 Kentucky public managers was mailed a six-page self-administered questionnaire in three waves. A response rate of 49 percent generated 1,467 usable questionnaires. About 69 percent of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Government Employees, Higher Education, Political Attitudes
Smith, Christopher A.; Russo, Robert – 1989
Intended to help rehabilitation facility administrators increase organizational income from manufacturing and/or contracted service sources, this document provides a decision-making model for the development of a production consortium. The document consists of five chapters and two appendices. Chapter 1 defines the consortium concept, explains…
Descriptors: Consortia, Cooperative Planning, Coordination, Institutional Cooperation
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Field, Terry – Higher Education Management, 1992
Three cooperative programs between the University of New England-Northern Rivers (Australia) and regional arms of government agencies which provide professional development are described. They involve the departments of school education, health, and family and community services. The university offers a variety of credit-bearing undergraduate and…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, College Administration, Courses, Foreign Countries
Public Health Foundation, Washington, DC. – 2001
This guide was developed to assist states in addressing the national workforce development objectives for the health professions and for employees of public health agencies in order to achieve the National Healthy People 2010 workforce objectives. The guide is organized in four sections. The opening section is a "how to" resource for…
Descriptors: Adults, Competence, Futures (of Society), Government Role