Once Upon A Campus: Lessons For Improving Quality And Productivity In Higher Education
Author(s): Daniel Seymour (Author)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication Date: 16 Mar. 1995
Language: English
Print length: 208 pages
ISBN-10: 0897749650
ISBN-13: 9780897749657
Book Description
The unique and controversial companion volume to Daniel Seymour’s On Q places Seymour’s ideas and theories within the context of a call to action. In a series of realistic case-study lessons, he reveals how colleges and universities can dramatically improve their performance by drawing upon the concepts found in systems theory, quality management, and studies of organizational behavior. Seymour’s goal is to overcome the current reactive mind-set and replace it with a proactive education environment where student success is the main objective. Once Upon a Campus can be put to use as an audit tool, as a guide for readers to identify problem areas in their institutions, and as a planning resource in evaluating and implementing overall performance improvement.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Seymour’s volume….makes useful points about the teaching and working lives of professors and instructors.
About the Author
DANIEL SEYMOUR is president, Q Systems, Palm Springs, California. He has worked in industry, as a professor, and as a university administrator. Dr. Seymour is the author of 12 books, including On Q: Causing Quality in Higher Education.
The Theory and Philosophy of Organizations: Critical Issues and New Perspectives
Author(s): John Hassard (Editor), Denis Pym
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 18 Mar. 1993
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0415063132
ISBN-13: 9780415063135
Book Description
The contributors to this volume challenge popular assumptions about organizations in order to redirect the ways in which organizational research is conceived and executed.
Editorial Reviews
Review
`Bombadiers all, the authors take the territory of organization theory from the air…Everything is a target: organization, culture, time, systems theory, method, positive social science, modernity, and even the idea of paradigms. Many of (their) smarter bombs strike at key vulnerabilities with an uncanny accuracy.’ – Administrative Science Quarterly
`This is an important set of readings. We are on high ground here with organization theory and analysis being set firmly within the framework of social theory and the philosophy of social enquiry.’ – Work, Employment and Society
‘The book lives up to its title. I would strongly recommend this book to the enthusiastic philosopher of organisations.’ – – J.Keri Davies, Management in Education