This handbook is designed to provide local administrators with both information and guidelines for organizing, implementing, and operating local vocational education advisory councils. Following a short introduction, there is a section which briefly discusses the procedures for organizing an advisory council: formulate policy, designate school…

This document on personnel management in higher education contains three papers that are designed to be used as guidelines for educational administrators. The first two papers, by John D. Millett, discuss the scope and problems of higher education administration and the problems associated with collective bargaining and tenure on college campuses.…

The first speaker in the Delta Pi Epsilon distinguished lecture series, board chairman of the J. C. Penney Company, talks about management principles, organizational development and communication, and what business and students have to offer each other. (MF)

Principles of effective management commonly violated by educational institutions include: (1) unity of command; (2) division or specialization of labor; (3) delegation of authority; and (4) authority equal to responsibility. (JMF)

Discusses basic principles of business, education, marketing, retail operation, bookshops, merchandising, display, selling, and success and their application to college bookstores. (JT)

The predominant pattern for administering governmental programs is through multiorganizational networks. Relying on a theory of resource mobilization and an analysis of allocation processes within the public sector, this paper argues that individual units within multiorganizational networks are increasingly beyond the traditional control…

Discussed are the ten specific skills which have been identified with successful engineering management. These include: team building; leadership; conflict resolution; technical expertise; planning; organization; entrepreneurship; administration; management support; and resource allocation. (CS)

Administrative scientists superimpose analytic frameworks on their observations when trying to make knowledge meaningful. The generation of knowledge should be seen as an essentially interpretive and subjective activity. An awareness of this fact may encourage a view of scientific progress that is reinforced by the social context in which research…

Exhorts higher education managers to attack not only small problems, but to see all sides of large issues to perceive its elements, thereby improving understanding of yourself and your job. (PG)

In selecting appropriate techniques for achieving corporate objectives, management scientists need to guard against the not-invented-here'' syndrome. (WM)

This series of six articles suggest ways vocational agriculture instructors can (1) delegate tasks to students and others, (2) organize daily activities in a priority manner to allow for the accomplishment of planned tasks, and (3) eliminate time wasting tasks. (LRA)

Describes a rating form that can be used as a starting point to determine how well time is being managed. Suggests a priority system to be used for planning work activities. (LRA)

Technologically sound administrative control systems may have undesirable results if they are not properly utilized. Before adopting a control system, a manager should consider how well it fits his managerial style, the organizational climate of the organization, the personality of his subordinates, and the goals of the organization. (JG)

Social service agencies can improve accountability to their clients in specific ways. These techniques borrow some of the language and principles of management science and can be applied successfully only if social workers accept the challenge posed by accountability and view these concepts as compatible with professional values. (Author)

Guidelines by the National Association of College Stores for making academically oriented bookstores financially viable with suggested alternative ways of implementing the guidelines (e.g. retail business, subsidized service, etc.) (JT)