Having previously been a teacher is dysfunctional in: (1) giving rise to ambivalence; (2) demanding change in perspective toward student, school system, and teacher; and (3) causing conflict by change in compliance system used with students, and functional in working on student teacher problems. (Author)

The increase in level of maturity and responsibility of much of the work force has an impact on traditional principles of management and the role of the manager in planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling. (PT)

Various recent attempts have been made in industry to provide the worker with a more challenging work content and thus provide job enrichment and satisfaction. In this article, the author sets out the many factors involved and suggests that the training manager has a vital role to play in overcoming this industrial malaise. (Author/EB)

Conclusions are: (1) psychologists and teachers report diversity in functions performed and responsibilities assumed by psychologists; (2) psychologists and teachers report differences in how psychologist distributes time and emphasis; (3) diversity exists on part of psychologists and teachers concerning functions of psychologists under more ideal…

Analysis of responses of 167 husbands and wives to the Blood and Wolfe family decision and job performance instrument revealed similar distributions of the two sets of responses but substantial discrepancies between spouses which appeared to be randomly distributed and offsetting, suggesting that they may be caused by perceptual differences rather…

Findings of this study support the position that the global concept of identification is too vague to be useful in assessing its effects on, or relation to adolescent behaviors. The study was based on part of a doctoral dissertation ("Role Models: Their Relationship to Educational and Occupational Behaviors") submitted to Teachers College,…

Describes the role of the elementary school principal in the area of educational change. (LN)

The authors provide a preliminary discussion of specific roles that paraprofessionals could assume in assisting professionals in educational programming for hearing-impaired children. The article is organized around responsibilities relating to diagnosis, instruction, instructional support, classroom behavior, and communication skills. Brief…

Interviews with ombudsmen at 18 of the 22 United States daily newspapers that have ombudsmen programs reveal that programs were created for a variety of reasons: to raise the confidence of the reading public in newspapers, to help readers understand the intricacies involved in creating and maintaining the press, and to provide access to the press…

Maintains that managers of libraries operated by for-profit organizations must seek to cultivate the perception and appearance that cost-benefit to the sponsor exists, even if unsupportable in an accounting sense. (Author/JD)