Managing Complex Educational Change

Why is educational change becoming more complex? Are there patterns in this complexity? How may managers cope effectively with complex educational change?This book investigates initiatives to reorganise school systems, involving highly emotive closures and mergers. It reveals how reorganisation was a complex change to manage because it was large-scale, componential, systematic, differentially impacting and context dependent. These characteristics affected management tasks, generating ambiguity in the change process that limited managers' capacity to control it. The authors offer four management themes as realistic strategies for coping with complex educational change:*orchestration*flexible planning and coordination*culture building and communication*differentiated supportManaging Complex Educational Change is essential reading for all concerned with educational change - managers in schools and colleges, students on advanced courses, trainers, local and regional administrators, academics and policy makers. The research has general implications for the theory and practice of managing complex change.

Managing Complex Educational Change: Large Scale Reorganisation of Schools

Business & Money

Wallace, Michael

Pocklington, Keith

Management & Leadership

Routledge

So you’ve been asked to lead a quality control initiative? Or maybe you’ve been assigned to a quality team. Perhaps you’re a CEO whose main concern is to make your company faster, more efficient, and less expensive. Whatever your role is, quality control is a critical concept in every industry and profession. 
Quality Control For Dummies is the straightforward, easy guide to improving your company’s quality. It covers all of today’s available options and provides expert techniques for introducing quality methods to your company, collecting data, designing quality processes, and more. This hands-on guide gives you all the tools you’ll ever need to enhance your company’s quality, including: <ul>
<li>Understanding the importance of quality standards</li> <li>Putting fundamental quality control methods to use</li> <li>Listening to your customer about quality issues</li> <li>Whipping quality control into shape with Lean</li> <li>Working with value stream mapping</li> <li>Focusing on the 5S method</li> <li>Supplement a process with Kanban</li> <li>Fixing tough problems with Six Sigma</li> <li>Using QFD to win customers over</li> <li>Improving you company with TOC</li> </ul>
This invaluable reference is written from an unbiased viewpoint, giving you all the facts about each theory with no fuzzy coverings. It also includes steps for incorporating quality into a new product and Web sites packed with quality control tips and techniques. With Quality Control For Dummies, you’ll be able to speed up production, eliminate waste, and save money!

Quality Control for Dummies

Webber, Larry

For Dummies

On a fly-fishing vacation in California’s High Sierra, San Francisco stockbroker Quill Gordon finds more than he bargained for. A menacing “citizen militia,” led by a former radio talk show host, has taken over an alpine meadow and is stockpiling far more guns than it needs for target practice. Ellen McHenry, a rancher’s daughter whose straightforward charms Gordon finds hard to resist, is in serious legal trouble as a trial over a contested will tears her family apart and threatens her father’s legacy. When these combustible factors lead to murder in cold blood and broad daylight, Ellen becomes a prime suspect, the militia ramps up its suspicious activities, and Gordon is drawn deeper into the case — whether he wants to be or not.

The McHenry Inheritance

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Michael Wallace

IS Project Management Handbook: 2003 Edition

Doss, George M.

ASPEN PUB.

Guide to devising an information systems policy and procedure program uniquely tailored to the needs of your organization. Includes a new chapter on how to plan a technology relocation project. Previous edition: c2001. Softcover.

IT Policies and Procedures: Tools & Techniques That Work

Computers & Technology

Jenkins, George

Computer Science

This updated 3rd edition helps IT management develop consistent policies and procedures that recognize the key role technology plays across the entire enterprise, ranging from legacy systems to wireless networks, outsourcing and unauthorized Internet intrusions. it presents, In quick-reference form, model policies and procedures any IT operation can adapt to fit its own unique needs, complete with easy-to-use forms and checklists.

IT Policies & Procedures: Tools & Techniques That Work

This update to IT Policies and Procedures manual, Third Edition explores the application of basic principles in the new context of Internet technology and increasing options for connectivity. The manual focuses on the elements common to all information-systems operations and offers advice on crafting policy to meet the needs of a particular arrangement. The authors (all IS practitioners) discuss issues like documentation, systems analysis and design, project management, security, local area networks, audits, human resources, training, vendors, mobile devises, peripheral systems, business continuity, and technology relocation. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

It Policies and Procedures: Tools & Techniques That Work 2004

Aspen Law & Business

Jenkins (systems analysis, University of Findlay) offers updated tips and new information on implementing a rehire policy, the CAN-SPAM Act, and creating policies for managing instant messaging in this 2005 edition of a reference that will help IT managers devise an information policy and procedure program tailored to the needs of their organizations. The guide provides information on policy and planning, documentation, and systems analysis and design, as well as sample policies that can be used as models or templates. This edition includes new material on technology relocation policies, a revised chapter on documentation, and new step-by-step instructions for developing a training strategy. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

IT Policies and Procedures: Tools and Techniques That Work, 2005

The 2006 edition of this guide and decision-making reference provides a new chapter on developing effective security policies, a section on employee orientation, and new and updated information on rehire policies, LAN management, spam, developing a training strategy, marketing, and creating a policy for managing instate messaging. The guide includes numerous sample policies, proposal templates, checklists, questionnaires, and agreements. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

IT Policies & Procedures: Tools & Techniques That Work, 2006

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