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

When managers apply the skills they learn, the techniques associated with leadership training often do not translate to improvements in employee productivity or in organizational productivity or profitability. (JOW)

The interview with Edgar B. Speer, chairman and chief executive of the United States Steel Corporation, focuses on the company's training and development activities. The role of the training department in management development is discussed. (EC)

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

The laboratory approach in managerial training generated a learning design seeking to reverse degenerative communication sequences and to reinforce regenerative communication sequences. (DS)

Report of an AMA study of the role of participants' expectations in management development and training. (Editor/MB)

Recognizing that trained managers and supervisors are sorely needed, particularly in today's economy, the author discusses the historical pattern of training and calls for improved methods by those responsible for management training. (JOW)

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)

Charges that there are few studies linking training with observed organizational change. (DS)

The author argues that curriculum design requires viewing the whole fabric of management training in its totality; individual training programs are created from this perspective. The challenge in this case is to build a coherent plan that will provide structure and unity to the whole management training program. (Author/SSH)

Explains why some programs fail to prove themselves in evaluations yet have substantial benefits. Documents a method of administering self-reports, pre-then-post testing that helps to eliminate response-shift bias. (Author)

Reports highlights of the American Society for Training and Development's (ASTD) professional development study to develop a model of professional roles and competencies for ASTD members. Members' ratings of trainer activities were used to construct role models for professional trainers. (M F)

This first article in a series on a three-part process for the evaluation of training programs covers the "focus" phase, in which the evaluator establishes the extent and objectives of the evaluation. The following are included: Dramatization of a training program evaluation, the flow chart of the entire process, and a description of the…

The Management Training Program (MTP) in the business office at Purdue University has succeeded in helping to prepare women for professional managerial positions. The MTP is another step toward the optimization of human potentialities and resources as it utilizes the skills of both sexes. (KP)