Companies that use the type of evaluation described should be able to match employee and jobs more accurately while increasing knowledge of their critical employee's needs. (Author)

Discusses and briefly reviews the history of the concept, quality of working life. Focus is on various initiatives and views taken by Federal and State governments, managements, trade unions, universities, and a number of public and private institutions. Federal legislation is also covered. (Editor/SH)

After discussing three major trends which have significantly altered the position of a secretary in a company or corporation, the author presents guidelines and other information to assist a company in planning either to initiate or upgrade a secretarial training program. (TA)

College health services are examined regarding (1) their relation to financial constraints on higher education in general; (2) the need to adjust to these restraints; and (3) the need to develop broader missions for the health service as an integral part of the institution. (MJB)

A comprehensive faculty development program is concerned not only with the faculty member as a person and as a professional but also as a member or a complex interdependent social system. (JD)

The second part to an article on the self-organization of change in individual development, this article describes the organization as developmental and self-organizing. Examines expectations about how social systems develop and offers a new framework. Describes change in group and organizational behavior with emphasis on student affairs.…

Examines the evolution of library and media services at Nassau Community College, focusing on the ongoing expansion of film and other audiovisual collections. (DMM)

Suggests that though counseling process and skills can be adapted to organization development (OD) and some counselors may act as change agents, counseling skills in and of themselves are not sufficient in undertaking comprehensive OD interventions. Proposes theory and practice changes for applying organizational development to counseling and…

The University of Quebec's planning process, based on the periodic development of a master plan for its 11 institutions, is outlined, including the plan's main components, its formulation, and its impact on the institution's development. (MSE)

Provides an introduction to data-based interventions in the organizational context. Compares four models of data use and discusses how they pertain to student affairs organizations and to staff training and development. (JAC)

Argues that community college administrators have placed too much time and hope in new management systems. Considers clarity of institutional goals, technological knowledge, decision making stability, and reliable information to be essential to effective management. Offers eight tactical rules for influencing institutional decisions. (DMM)

Encourages use of case studies to introduce "real-life" engineering assignments, suggesting that they should be given in a natural order as a series. Describes three such assignments being used at the University of the West Indies. Description, analysis, and design of an existing engineering system is included. (JM)

The concept of paradigm development, it is suggested, can explain differences in organizational contexts of university departments. Departments from high-paradigm fields are embedded in a context with clearly identifiable and distinguishable dimensions. (Author/MLW)

If major changes are made in the financing of health care to control costs, teaching hospitals are particularly vulnerable and will have to be as innovative in management and organizational approaches as clinically, using both short- and long-term survival strategies. (MSE)

The rise of the Council for the Advancement of Small Colleges (CASC) to a position of national leadership within the higher education community is described. Its success in fund-raising, college services, and intercollegiate relations is reported. (LBH)