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Keller, Jack; Piotrowski, Chris – 1986
Career development programs (CDPs) are a rather recent area of study in organizational and industrial psychology. The present study investigated the nature and evaluation of CDPs in Fortune 500 firms. Data were obtained by a mailed questionnaire completed by the firms' human resources directors. Of the 500 companies surveyed, only those 50 that…
Descriptors: Career Development, Corporate Education, Educational Needs, Management Development
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Axelrod, Pearl; And Others – Young Children, 1982
Describes the design, implementation, and impact of the Mobile Training for Directors of Day Care Centers (MTDDC) Program, a program that was created to provide directors with information to improve their administrative and organizational skills. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Management Development, Mobile Educational Services
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Davis, David S. – 1992
Total quality management (TQM) is based on the fundamental philosophy that it is always more effective to do something right the first time than it is to correct deficiencies. It seeks to improve quality and increase customer satisfaction by restructuring traditional management and organizational practices. Common characteristics of TQM include…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Job Training
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Mailick, Sidney; Hoberman, Solomon – Public Personnel Management, 1985
Describes a staff college designed to help Israeli managers deal with managerial and organizational problems and to increase their potential to learn on the job, improve current performance, and meet future challenges. Discusses characteristics of this approach, curriculum modules, role of the preceptor, and a comparison of this approach with the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Job Performance, Job Skills, Management Development
Wills, Gordon – 1990
Home study is practiced by most managers, who read or write reports, reflect on work projects and problems, and catch up on professional journals at home. A goal of home study advocates is to make such home study as useful as possible. A management development process known in England as action learning requires that 60 percent of study be done at…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Home Study
Kimmel, Ellen – 1983
In order to promote the goal of increasing the number of women holding the nontraditional role of formal leadership in the Florida system of vocational education, a 2-week training institute for women teachers was conducted at the University of South Florida, Sarasota campus. Selected to participate in the institute were 24 women from eight…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Educational Administration, Females, Inservice Teacher Education
Gillen, Marie – 1982
Since 1976, the Atlantic Institute of Education in Nova Scotia has conducted a series of workshops to help school administrators and school board members to develop their practical leadership skills. The services provided by the workshop program include needs assessment, inservice workshops, information services, dissemination of materials, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Boards of Education, Inservice Education
Booz, Allen Public Administration Services, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1972
This report is one of two evaluating job development activities being carried on in 16 metropolitan areas. Programmatic activities being explored include those of: (1) The Concentrated Employment Program, (2) The Work Incentive Program, (3) Job Opportunities in the Business Sector, (4) MDTA Institutional Program, (5) The Employment Service…
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Problems, Employment Programs, Job Development
Foreman, David J.; Dunn, John G. – 1997
The management enhancement team approach (META) is a team-driven management development program designed for managers within Australia's National Vocational Education and Training Sector (NVETS). META, which has been piloted at more than 70 sites across Australia, is designed to identify and address management development needs within the context…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Case Studies, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries
Mohamed, Dominic A. – 1983
The Florida Extern Leadership Training Program for Local Administrators of Vocational Education was conceived to meet the need for trained and certified leadership personnel in vocational education at the local level throughout Florida. During the third year of the project's operation, project staff implemented a training program to meet state…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Competency Based Education, Educational Administration, Individualized Instruction
MacAllum, Keith; Bell, Amy K. – 2000
The New Leaders Academy (NLA) is a national leadership training program aimed at ensuring the continuity of effective leadership of, and improved practices within, youth employment and development programs. The first NLA residential training session, held at Gallaudet University (Washington, DC), enrolled and trained 31 participants (called "New…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Formative Evaluation, Group Dynamics, Group Experience
Cooper, William D., Ed.; And Others – 1985
These proceedings contain the following eight papers: "Identifying Problems that Impede the Operations of a Business and Services that May Help Overcome Them" (William T. Price, Jr.); "A Comparison of Computer-Assisted Instruction and Traditional Modes of Instruction in Principles of Marketing Classes" (Gerald Crawford, Jack W. Crocker, Margie S.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Career Development, Computer Oriented Programs, Cooperative Education
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Savio, Mary L. – 1981
A study examined those competencies needed by local administrators of Michigan vocational education programs at the secondary and career-education-planning-district (CEPD) levels to carry out effectively their duties and responsibilities. The Administrator Task Inventory, a survey to identify and verify the importance of and the need for training…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility
Nielsen, Soren P. – 1999
The Phare Vocational Education and Training (VET) Reform Programme in Romania was evaluated in May-June 1999. According to the two evaluators who conducted intensive visits to 14 pilot and demonstration schools and met with 9 zonal and local development committees and key representatives of Romanian government and educational agencies, the VET…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs, Educational Change
McFarlane, Carolyn; Claudy, Carolyn B. – 1981
One of five modules in the administrative series of the 16-module series designed to train vocational education curriculum specialists, this module is intended for use in classes or individual study arrangements at the preservice or inservice level by students with varying amounts of experience in vocational education. (These modules are revised…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Teacher Education, Curriculum Development
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