Theme of issue is Helping Children with Conflict Resolution.'' (DS)

An inquiry into the roots of the scope of the negotiations problem among professionals in the public sector. Argues that there is embodied in the idea of professionalism a logic which imposes on those occupations which aspire to professional standards or are already characterized by them pressure for a broad and flexible approach to determination…

Organizational Development (OD) projects assist schools in clarifying communication, establishing clear goals, solving conflicts, improving meetings, and making decisions. (Author)

Believes that the principalship is the key position for facilitating change, this author provides practical suggestions for the principal as change-agent. (Editor)

Article attempts to describe the emotional rebirth of four of the eight children brought together as one family by the remarriage of parents who each had four children. (MB)

Fifth grade students with socially deprived family backgrounds met weekly with a teacher for twenty minute discussions. They progressed from a need to resolve conflict, through sharing of thinking and objectives, to a degree of self-understanding and an awareness of one another's needs. (Author/JB)

It has been proposed that in order to meet the dilemma of societal viability, an open aristocracy or elite may be the most effective form of social structure while every effort is made to have the individual establish a strong ego identity within the context of the social order. (Author)

Presents experimental evidence showing that the desirability of an alternative choice increases when one's freedom to choose it is threatened; this reactance will be reduced if freedom is reinstated by another person; and desirability will also be reduced if another person under similar threat manages to restore his own freedom. (RW)

Six participants each from Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya participated in a workshop to search for solutions to the border disputes between Somalia and her two neighbors. This pilot venture, a mixture of successes and failures, can provide the basis for improvement and extension of the concept. Followed by critical comments by John E. Harr, Otto…

The viewpoints and findings of the seven empirical studies of organizational conflict contained in this issue are compared and contrasted. A distinction is made between conflict within a stable organization structure and conflict aimed at changing the organization structure. (Author)

The economic, organizational, and political conditions that encourage a systematic and equitable resolution of conflict are considered in this study of conflict within the automobile distribution system. (Author)