Explores how successful training departments have been in achieving improved managerial performance; how conventional training methods compare in effectiveness with new process" techniques; how management development and training practitioners can modify existing training approaches to achieve increased managerial performance. References. (RB)

Focus is the measurement of power at the community level considering the social organizational context. (SE)

Offers support for the idea that dissonance is aroused only if the consequences of a discrepant action are known in advance and responsibility freely assumed. Graphs, tables, and bibliography. (RW)

Economics teaches that alternatives always exist, even if the choice is only between a new action and the existing status quo and that, in order to evaluate choices, one must know exactly what the relevant alternatives are. (Author)

The article describes an instructional program designed to provide a broad professional foundation in group work, and, under supervision, provide opportunities to develop and perfect skills in the group counseling process. (Author/BY)

Presented is a rationale accompanied by specific techniques and concepts for counselor use when consulting with teachers about classes as groups. (Author)