Once Upon A Campus: Lessons For Improving Quality And Productivity In Higher Education

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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.

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The Theory and Philosophy of Organizations: Critical Issues and New Perspectives

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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

About the Author

John Hassard, Denis Pym

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