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Steiner, Richard; Kelly, Frank – Personnel Journal, 1976
An evaluation approach to study the success of management development programs is presented. The evaluation is based on an analysis of the relationship between program success, program staffing, and four participant characteristics which might interact with perceptions of course favorability; age, education, years with the organization, and reason…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Management Development, Participant Characteristics, Program Administration
Steiner, Richard – Personnel Journal, 1975
The assessment center can be a mechanism for providing a highly sophisticated evaluation of the training effort. The article describes how the training manager can successfully incorporate the assessment center concept into an overall training evaluation strategy. (Author/MW)
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs, Management Development
Barth, Anthony L.; Engfer, Robert T. – Personnel Journal, 1977
Focus is on the Agway (a farm supply and food marketing cooperative) retail store system in this informational case history and how-to approach for designing, developing, and implementing a formal corporate management program. (Editor/TA)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, College Credits, Distributive Education, Management Development
Elkins, Aaron – Personnel Journal, 1977
Discusses a study which examined the results of five basic management seminars for government supervisors and managers to determine the impact of "Basic Management" on trainees' behavior after they returned to their jobs. Notes that the findings cast doubts on some things that have long been part of the conventional wisdom of management training.…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Education, Behavior Change, Educational Research
