While most organizational development consultants agree that managers are the real change agents, the profession has been slow to actively prepare managers to create and manage change. This article identifies barriers to helping the manager and offers guidelines for more effective consultant behavior. (LRA)

Issues affecting the health professions and health systems beyond 1984 are presented in the context of the impact which these developments will have on health sciences education. It is suggested that education must prepare people to avert economic and ethical exploitation and increased governmental control and regulation. (JMF)

Examines how the organization of the labor process generates the need for low wage powerless labor and shows how this is achieved through the use of immigrant and minority workers. Utilizes examples from large urban centers in the northern and northeastern United States. (Author/GC)

Determines the relationship of student teachers' commitment to values, attitudes, and behaviors characteristically fostered by bureaucratic organizations and their verbal classroom behavior while teaching. Findings reveal no difference in verbal classroom behavior of student teachers high and low in bureaucratic orientation, and no difference in…

In a personal reminiscence, a financial aid officer describes the initiation into a profession proliferated by paperwork and jargon. Comparisons are made between experiences in a small college and an urban university. (LBH)

Suggests that the ultimate economic status of those beyond middle age, precarious at best, may come to depend more during the years ahead on federal employment policy rather than on the local labor markets. (Author/AM)

Highlights the past and present plight of blacks and delineates a set of economic imperatives for the economic situation for America's blacks. (Author/AM)

Appraises the 1971-74 Federal program of wage and price controls and examines the problems of interactions with other public programs as well as with private actions. Concludes that controls are not an effective method of dealing with inflation. (MF)

A training director talks about the soul-searching that resulted in his decision to resign from his job. The author tells how organizational differences in regard to human resource development practices frustrated his desire to continue his career planning programs for employees, as well as his own personal growth. (MF)

Presents a case for and poses a procedure including techniques for a systematic approach to planning in education as a means of improving efficiency and effectiveness. Available from: Australian College of Education, 916 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia, $2.50 single copy. (Author/MLF)

To assess the current state of practices and expectations regarding information seeking and collaboration in the newly merged research labs of Hewlett Packard and Compaq Computer, a survey research project was conducted over the Summer of 2002. This paper presents partial findings from this larger study, focusing on the information seeking…

This research attempts to identify how social capital is manifest within the contexts of small firm networks that rely on rapid turnover of projects. Presents work to date that converts tacit knowledge into sets of explicit and manageable local data, and provides examples of information visualizations for profiling and retrieval that support the…

Considers how peoples' creative problem-solving efforts are influenced by organizational characteristics. Examines the situations which call for creative problem solving at work and describes the kinds of processes people must apply to solve these problems. Reviews organizational variables that help or hinder these processes. (Author/CR)

Includes "Toward Construct Validation of a Transfer Climate Instrument" (Holton et al.); "Improving Positive Transfer: A Test of Relapse Prevention Training on Transfer Outcomes" (Burke); "Invited Reaction: Progress or Relapse?" (Newstrom); "Invited Reaction: Theory, Research, and Practice" (Tang);…

Longitudinal study of leadership and transformation of organizational culture in one state school in England in the late 1990s. Explores how three head teachers applied power effectively in three distinct areas: within the school and its departments, with the local government and communities, and with the central government and its agencies.…