The article defines human resources development and discusses its relationship with staff development. The costs and benefits of continuing education are considered. One approach to staff development through seminars and workshops is illustrated by the experience of the General Library at the University of California at Berkeley. (JAB)

This guidebook is one in the Target Topic Series developed to highlight issues and concerns related to effective community education operation. It is intended for the community educator who is responsible for working with the community education program staff--both paid and volunteer. A pretest covers material discussed in the guidebook. The…

To identify staff development needs and test the Borich Needs Assessment Model, 68 faculty in Nevada were surveyed (90 percent response). Use of the model made rankings of individual topics substantively different from results obtained by traditional methods. (JOW)

The author reports on the trend for manufacturing companies to spend heavily on retraining and retaining employees whose jobs have been abolished or dramatically changed. Employers have found retraining current employees to be more cost effective than hiring new workers. He describes a California state program that helps finance such training…

A trial program was initiated for the 1972-73 school year in which instructional personnel from the nursing department of the Morgan Community College, Fort Morgan, Colorado, were contracted to provide periodic inservice training for rural institutional nursing staff. (MW)

In 10 chapters, this book offers a clear nonlinear vision for continuously preparing professional and classified staff for the purpose of improving schools and student academic achievement. Chapter 1 shows the importance of inservice education and provides a rationale for conducting systematic, if not empirically based, programs. Chapter 2 details…

The Extension Committee on Organization and Policy's National Task Force on Cooperative Extension Inservice Training (1959) identified nine major areas of compentency considered important for all extension workers. It concluded that after the induction period, training for experienced workers should enlist the abilities of the participants…

This adult education long-range staff development plan proposes a cooperative network to have impact on a minimum of 600 practitioners each year it is in full operation. In the first year, three elements will be put into operation. First, a staff development collaborative consisting of representatives of key agencies and groups to initiate,…

Human resource development (HRD) and productivity are allies; they are synergistic. Productivity can be defined as an increase of output with no increase in input. An increase in productivity can be accomplished in the workplace through speed-up or capital investment. When productivity improvements are introduced, the philosophy of the…

A project aimed to identify the staff development needs of tutors involved in the OWTLET (Other Ways To Learn--Educational Technology) open learning scheme and to pilot supportive strategies. To ascertain a broad view of inservice tutor training requirements, the first phase of the project was devoted to a literature review, student and tutor…

Suggestions for an individualized approach to staff development of adult educators is offered in this monograph. Individual commitment to professional growth and administration allocation of time and resources are seen as prerequisites to implementation of any program. In discussing program types, the report cautions that large group programs,…

This packet is designed to assist mental health program administrators in planning and implementing more effective training and supervision for program staff, especially paraprofessionals. Training and supervision are combined in these materials because they represent two approaches to the same goal: the enhancement of the competence of current or…

Throughout 1993-94, a team of adult education practitioners and state staff from the Kentucky Department for Adult Education and Literacy developed a staff development system for adult educators in the state. Input was gathered from the staff development advisory committee, from student and teacher focus groups, and through other public and…

A curriculum of "Special Topics" for workplace education programs was developed. Project staff took into account former participants' suggestions and recommendations for workshop topics and brainstormed ideas for inclusion into the curriculum. Both commercially produced and instructor-made materials on stress management, communication…

This report describes a project designed to educate adult education staff on legal issues that affect students so that staff could instruct and support students on the problems they faced. Staff were trained to help students recognize which problems they could handle and which required professional legal consultation. Six workshops (3 hours each)…