Author: Joseph Grant LedgerwoodPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Social Perceptions of the Campus Planning Process
Author: Joseph Grant LedgerwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
College Personnel Perceptions of the Long Range Planning Process in Selected Independent Liberal Arts Colleges
Author: JoAnn Smith HintonPublisher:
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Staff Perceptions of a Participatory Strategic Planning Process at One Community College
Author: Eve L. McDermottPublisher:
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Category : Community colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of participants involved in one community college's strategic planning process in which faculty, administrators, and staff at all levels of the organization were encouraged to participate. Data were collected through direct observation, focus group interviews, analysis of institutional documents, and a pen and paper questionnaire. Data were analyzed through a constant comparative method. Reduction of the data produced themes exploring the reaction of participants to the new strategic planning process. This qualitative study generated four hypotheses that relate to these research questions: 1. Staff participation in an organization's strategic planning process results in a deeper staff understanding of the organization's mission, a higher staff commitment to the organization's goals, and a demonstration of greater staff energy and vitality. 2. Community college departments will interpret and implement institutional strategic planning processes in ways that are unique and congruent with their academic discipline; a single process cannot be successfully dictated. 3. When managers serve as facilitators or use others to facilitate strategic planning processes, staff will self-organize, a process will emerge, and leadership will take a variety of forms. 4. Community college staff who encounter change in strategic planning processes can be categorized as Guarded Optimists, Curmudgeons, Crusaders, or Along for the Ride, based on levels of frustration and optimism. Recommendations for Practice: 1. Obtain acceptance of terminology from all units before beginning the participatory strategic planning process. Use acceptable terms in form/templates and in facilitation. 2. Do not dictate a single process for strategic planning across all disciplines. Design forms and processes that are adaptable to differences in styles of critical thinking. 3. Use facilitators to assist units in the participatory strategic planning effort. Train the facilitators to work in ways that empower participants. 4. Reduce participant frustration and increase optimism by providing sufficient time, creating sustainable feedback loops, both of which demonstrate that the unit manager has thought through the process. 5. Increase participation in strategic planning processes to gain deeper understanding of the organization's mission, higher commitments to organizational goals, and a demonstration of greater energy and vitality.
Community Members' Perceptions of the Role of a Deliberative Planning Process in Their School Community
Author: Jennifer S. BrumfieldPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Comparative Perceptions of Planners of Four Michigan Community Colleges
Author: Meshack Mairura SaginiPublisher:
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Category : Community colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Social Workers' Perceptions of Their Role in the Advance Care Planning Process
Author: Brigid FerrariPublisher:
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Category : Advance directives (Medical care)
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Municipal, Educational, and Intergovernmental Planning
Author: Kenneth Frank WilliamsPublisher:
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
An Evaluation of the Campus Planning Process at the University of California, Berkeley Campus
Author: Harvey Zane HelfandInstitutional Planning and Improvement Process. Creating a Golden Future
Author: Rose State CollegePublisher:
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Category : Rose State College
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The first document is an outline of the planning process from idea generation to planning process review and evaluation. The next document drafted by Jim Cook and Steve Smith explains the Global Business Network approach to planning that centers on developing possible future scenarios, defined as tools "for ordering one's perceptions about alternate future environments in which one's decisions might by played out." The outcome of the GBN retreat/planning event was the "initial research assignment of collecting and analyzing political, social, economic and technological data..." using the Scenario analysis research outline.
Transcending Boundaries
Author: Rabel J. BurdgePublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780756707941
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A compilation of abstracts of papers presented at the 8th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, held June 17-22, 2000. The abstracts explore the social dimensions of managing spatial landscapes for various purposes. The theme of the symposium, "Transcending Boundaries: Natural Resource Management form Summit to Sea," provided participants with the opportunity to explore the challenges of working across conceptual, cultural, and physical boundaries. The symposium focused on how social science research is being brought to bear on the exploration of "boundary issues" in resource management.