Videotapes can be used by park and recreation managers to: (1) define what a specific maintenance task entails; (2) describe equipment and manpower required to do a task; and (3) illustrate the quality required at job completion. (CJ)

Compares the American and Japanese first-line supervisor: production statistics, supervisory style, company loyalty, management style, and communication. Also suggests what Americans might learn from the Japanese methods. (CT)

To reduce fuel consumption at Carroll Hill Elementary School (New York), an energy management program controls both peak demand and total energy usage. (Author/MLF)

In contrast to the American system of management, Japanese management motivates its employees by challenging them with high goals and by providing inhouse training and development opportunities to meet their self-fulfillment needs. (Author/LD)

Offers a conceptual framework for organizational development consultation, through a brief definition of the process, with attention given to the systems approach. The consultation process is described, and a brief statement about consulting in business and higher education settings is included. (Author/JEG)

Outlines the concept of zero-base budgeting as well as describing some of its applications in business, government, and education. (IRT)

Discusses the application of participative management within a college library environment, and sketches management theories pertaining to the hierarchy of human needs, motivation, Rensis Likert's Systems Four, and Herzberg's dissatisfiers. (FM)

Presents seven issues in reading skills management. (DD)

Standardized leadership tools may have some control and learning benefits for multinational corporations. However, a case example from Norway illustrates how external complexity diminishes the usefulness of standardization. Although higher management autonomy results in less control, it improves subsidiary learning. (Contains 26 references.) (SK)

Considers how the concept of knowledge management (KM) is inherently problematic and many uses tend to be either tension ridden or trivial. Identifies three common departures from knowledge and two departures from management in KM. Concludes that KM provides rhetorical appeal to a broad and differentiated field that neither deals very specifically…

Assesses the contributions of T. B. Greenfield's "Alternative Theory" to a comprehensive theory for school administration in practice and scholarship. Considers Greenfield's standpoint in relation to rational, natural, and open systems perspectives. (DMM)

Describes PCBIS, a database program for MS-DOS microcomputers that features a utility for automatically converting online public access catalog search results stored as text files into structured database files that can be searched, sorted, edited, and printed. Topics covered include the general features of the program, record structure, record…

The first of two articles describes ArchiText, a software package that allows the use of maps and multipaned windows within hypertext systems. The second describes version 2.0 of Guide, a hypertext-type program designed to be used on IBM and IBM compatible microcomputers. (CLB)

Examines the function of an authority file and the application of authority control to microcomputer-based library databases. Capabilities of relational database management systems which allow for an authority control system on the microcomputer level are noted. (10 references) (MES)

Discusses issues involved in automating the relational database design process for microcomputer users and presents a prototype of a microcomputer-based system (RA, Relation Assistant) that is based on expert systems technology and helps avoid database maintenance problems. Relational database design is explained and the importance of easy input…