Allocation of Resources with an Educational Organisation

Question 1

What is subjective budgeting?

Answer 1

Concentrates on the subjects of expenditure e.g. teachers’ salaries or buildings

Question 2

Why does Handy (1993) say the budget is so important?

Answer 2

• planning
• provides data to compare practice
• controls the way resources are used
• acts as a stimulant for change

Question 3

What approaches to financial strategy do Bailey and Johnson (1997) outline?

Answer 3

1. logical and rational (financial plans are fully known)
2. logical but incrementalist (built year on year)
3. political (based on internal pressures)
4. cultural (based on the status quo)
5. visionary (based on where we are going)
6. natural selection (based on competing factions)

Question 4

Who outlines these approaches to financial strategy?

1. logical and rational (financial plans are fully known)
2. logical but incrementalist (built year on year)
3. political (based on internal pressures)
4. cultural (based on the status quo)
5. visionary (based on where we are going)
6. natural selection (based on competing factions)

Answer 4

Bailey and Johnson (1997)

Question 5

Who advocates zero-based budgeting?

Answer 5

Cooper (2011)

Question 6

Who describes programme budgeting as how each programme is costed according to its inputs.

Answer 6

Caldwell and Spinks (1988)

Question 7

What question does Glover (VLE, 2017) ask about budgeting?

Answer 7

To what extent should class teaching and HoDs be involved? Talks of annual ‘fight’ for resources.

Question 8

What is loose rational planning?

Answer 8

decision-making based on consensus - deviation from plans allowed

Question 9

How do Mintzberg et al (2000) describe financial strategy?

Answer 9

‘A strategy is the pattern or plan that integrates an organisation’s major goals, policies, and action sequences into a cohesive whole.’

Question 10

What are the four styles of allocation (Bush, 2000)?

Answer 10

1. Rational (according to plans at every level)
2. Collegial (through discussion)
3. Politcal (through micro political groups)
4. Ambiguity models (combination of models - could be both problematic or chaotic)

Question 11

What is tight rational planning?

Answer 11

Unambiguous goals - little deviation from financial plan

Question 12

What type of budgeting does Cooper (2011) advocate?

Answer 12

zero-based budgeting

Question 13

What are the four budgetary approaches?

Answer 13

1. Programme budgeting
2. Subjective budgeting
3. Zero-based budgeting
4. Incremental budgeting

Question 14

How does rational planning work?

Answer 14

1. Determine objectives
2. Find information on alternative means
3. Select relevant actions

Question 15

Who identified these four styles of allocation?

1. Rational (according to plans at every level)
2. Collegial (through discussion)
3. Politcal (through micro political groups)
4. Ambiguity models (combination of models - could be both problematic or chaotic)

Answer 15

Bush (2000)

Question 16

Who talked of a continuum between tight and loose planning?

Answer 16

Glover et al (1996)

Question 17

What are the 6 stages to financial strategic management?

Answer 17

1. Assessing current position
2. Assessing strengths and weaknesses
3. Reviewing aims
4. Considering and costing
5. Decision-making on future planning
6. Developing action plans

Question 18

How does Caldwell and Spinks (1988) describe programme budgeting?

Answer 18

Where each programme is costed according to its inputs.