The literature on the use of strategic management principles by health care organizations is reviewed. After considering basic concepts of strategic management and managerial problems in nonprofit organizations, strategic planning and management of health care organizations are covered. Attention is directed to the health care environment,…

The field of educational administration has a major credibility problem in academe because it is seen to lack a convincing theoretical base. In the practical world of politics, management, and teaching, it appears that educational values are easily rendered marginal in policy making and that team and institutional leaders lack a sophisticated…

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)

The professional preparation of educators is intensely and intrinsically political; this constitutes the external environment of the dean or chief administrator. What is true in the external environment of professional education is also true in the internal environment of the chief administrator of such programs. The different roles and functions…

Describes the evolution of the multiple English department, sets forth "commandments" for English department chairpersons, and points to qualities of the ideal department chairperson. (GW)

Explores impediments to the use of multimedia courseware in higher education and the factors required for multimedia to thrive. Impediments include the smug culture of higher education, finances, standards, the need for multiple talents, and time. (CK)

In 1983, Burton Clark published a study that was to become a classic work on the organisation and government of higher education systems (Clark 1983). He constructed three "ideal types" of system--state system, market system and professional system, and summarised the way that national systems of higher education are dependent on the…

Management is a future-oriented decision process that relates resources into a total functional system for the accomplishment of a set of objectives. As a rule, universities do not have a management system, and there is no understanding of their environments in terms of the inputs, outputs, objectives, and organizational relationships of line and…

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)

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…

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)