Two major aims for any course in the management of education must be the learning of practical skills and the improving of self-knowledge in interpersonal relationships. The plan of the four educational management courses, at two British Universities in 1971, was to start from the point of experience and to build theoretical models on the base of…

Rationale for developing business ownership and management curriculum for Grades 7, 8, and 9, under federal grant to National Business Education Assogiation. (AG)

Urges trainers not to proceed blindly in learning program effectiveness. (DS)

Summarizes recent studies based on the contingency model of leadership effectiveness, which suggest why research has failed to show that leadership training and experience increase organizational performance. The contingency model postulated that group performance depends on the match between situational favorableness, i.e., the leader's control…

Outlines objectives and methodology for successfully developing expatriated managers. (Editor)

Good college managers can learn from good corporate management. (Author)

Failure to participate in the management revolution has created a critical shortage of business leaders at our colleges, but innovative new programs offer some hope for management development. (Editor)

This paper compares the human service organization (HSO) with mainstream industrial and commercial enterprises. It examines some insights drawn from recent British and American research, particularly in the area of "domain theory," and suggests possible reasons for the ambivalent performance of most organizational development/management strategies…

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)

Describes a public relations course that teaches students how to analyze a communications problem and plan and implement a program to solve that problem based on sound managerial strategy. (HOD)

Describes how a black radio operation in Washington, D.C., used university students enrolled in a broadcast management course to solve some of their management problems. (HOD)