A systems approach to management development in today's business world becomes more than a theoretical diagram of how things should work or just a training program. It is an assessment of a company's strengths and weaknesses and should be a prelude to successful business planning. (Author/DS)

Article suggests that the simpler the guidelines of a training program, the more successful it will be, the easier it will be to convey to top management, and the easier it will be to evaluate. (Author/ML)

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)

Systems concepts suggest that school administrators should not only carry out plans, but also act as managers who do planning, design strategies, and operate in terms of all systems, balancing and managing their interaction. (Author/WM)

A 40-hour course in systems design is described. The course was developed for presentation to non-data processing management personnel whose responsibilities include utilization of data processing services. All course material is included. (Author/JY)

The Engineering Industry Training Board has produced a method enabling the office supervisor or departmental manager to control the critical parts of his systems--the Commercial Systems Practice (CSP). The systems plot, the staff/task matrix, performance indicators, and benefits of the CSP technique are discussed. (Author/MW)

The management development program should respond to diagnosed needs of current and relevant data; the man responsible for it must have a variety of skills, and be able to gather data, analyze it, and intervene in the management process at the right moment with the right methods. (Author)

The Office of Health Services Education and Research at Michigan State University has clarified the functions of planning, organization, coordination, monitoring, and assessing instructional development projects. Each management function can be applied to the process of instructional development in order for the manager to achieve several…

This essay provides commentary on the place of mathematics in the study and practice of educational administration. The incidence of mathematical topics in the writing of the field is explored, and their isolation from each other and from the body of literature is pointed out. Possible areas of synthesis are sought from the traditional use of…

A training program for upper-middle to upper-level managers of a company in Iran uses the lecture/seminar approach. The goals of the course are to develop insights into problem areas connected with the development of a pragmatic intercultural management model, and to introduce approaches and prerequisites for modern management. The 10 lectures…

Fifteen California community colleges participated in a program designed to develop and demonstrate a training and internship model that would provide skilled, experienced project managers, especially at the levels of dean and assistant dean, for occupational education in the state's community colleges. Research was conducted to produce a…

A prevailing concern of leadership development is the extent to which performance-oriented training increases the ability of an individual to define and implement a process to accomplish stated objectives. The systems approach provides an analytic strategy for task decomposition into sequentially, temporally ordered activities without necessarily…