Human resource development professionals should combine vision, understanding, and programing expertise in establishing continuous learning environments in organizations. Leadership roles include role modeling new behavior styles and engendering a participatory atmosphere. (SK)

The move toward collective bargaining by faculty members has affected the autonomy of institutions and is changing the power relationships within them. Implications of unionization and resulting rigidification of personnel relationships for the personnel administrator are addressed and possible solutions proposed. (L BH)

Stewardship is the name given to a theory and model for educational leadership and administration developed by the Department of Educational Administration at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. In the stewardship theory, the job of the personnel administrator is to make it safe for others to find their own best ways of doing things to…

With a major portion of all community college budgets being spent on personnel and related costs and with personnel management becoming extremely complex, new approaches toward human resources management are crucial to the continuing vitality of community colleges. Advocates centralization of human resource services and mainstreaming academic…

This book presents human resources issues that will affect the financial management of colleges and universities as they move into the 21st century. It examines how business managers and human resources managers must balance human resources management policies and practices against the financial demands on the institution. It discusses the…

Japanese management theory was studied to identify specific models for consideration by student personnel administrators. The report is organized into three sections: major components of Japanese management theory, potential implications for student personnel administration, and three models, based on components of Japanese management theory, for…