Article attempts to survey major American corporations in order to present what is actually happening in management training today. (GB)

Opposing the idea that small business is dying, the author suggests that opportunities for small business still exist. (Editor)

The article focuses on why the success of career development is largely dependent on the manager knowing how to develop subordinates. This is being accomplished through an advisory system by providing managers multiple leadership/education/training alternatives for specific developmental needs. (Author/BP)

Article presents a progression training model as a possible approach for minimizing the conflict that often emerges between superiors and subordinates when management by objectives programs are initiated. (GB)

Illustrates the Perceptive Management System, which has been developed as a practical approach to helping managers solve the many people situations which confront them. (Author)

Describes an aid in making managers more effective in technical and leadership problems. (Editor)

Warren Bennis discusses the field of organization development and its needs, applications, unresolved problems, and future. (LRA)

Reviewing the development of organizational development (OD) since 1969, the author describes the emerging values and historical perspectives of the field, provides a cross-section of processes and theories, and clarifies the changing relationship between the organizational development and human resource development fields. (LRA)

While most organizational development consultants agree that managers are the real change agents, the profession has been slow to actively prepare managers to create and manage change. This article identifies barriers to helping the manager and offers guidelines for more effective consultant behavior. (LRA)

Reviews organizational development as a management system, stating that a content-oriented or task-requirements approach may be an appropriate intervention to help managers learn process training. Suggests a career development or management system study by a consultant for organizational development training. (MF)

To meet anticipated changes due to growth, the management training department developed an experimental program utilizing a system approach. A thorough evaluation of the program was carried out, and its results, including difficulties, are presented with suggestions for modifications of the approach. (BB)

Reviews assessment centers, their methods, growth and validity studies. Gives an example of a typical two day assessment center and of an assessment center summary report. (RB)

The most traumatic managerial changes that will take place in the decade ahead will be in management concepts and styles. To be a manager will require a person to be a trained professional in the most up-to-date human processes as well as in the traditional management functions. (LRA)

In the first of a three-part series, the authors examine the origin of the organizational development movement, instrumented team learning seminars for managers, their experimental programs for industry at various locations, the development of the "managerial grid," management by objectives, behavior modification, and other approaches to…