Lists those organizations which provide critical services for high school and college newspapers and yearbooks. (RB)

Using educational organizations as a case in point, it is argued that the concept of loose coupling incorporates a surprising number of disparate observations about organizations, suggests novel functions, creates stubborn problems for methodologists, and generates intriguing questions for scholars. (Author)

Integrating comprehensive human resource planning with overall organization plans and strategies, and implementing responsive human resource programs with a growing sensitivity to the economic and policy needs of the organization represent the substance and direction of human resources management. (Author/IRT)

Considers the manner in which the concept of deregulation has been used in the literature, describes several forms of deregulation, and discusses the tactics likely to be employed by agencies and by the regulated parties. (Author/IRT)

Outlines a conceptual framework that allows description of the interaction of the administrator with an organization by considering organizations and individuals to be dynamic. (Author/IRT)

Reviews the creation of the Assembly for Behavioral and Social Sciences (ABASS) by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). (SL)

In this introduction to a series of articles on educational bureaucracy, the author writes that for a bureaucracy to develop, the following elements must first have evolved: (1) a concept of guided authority; (2) a system of written records documenting function, place, and status of persons at various levels; and (3) employment and advancement…

This paper develops a conceptual model of the crisis-decision process, focusing on links susceptible to emergence of pathologies, and proposes preventive measures to increase the coping abilities of decision units. (Author)

A listing of the thirteen principal organizations concerned in some way with terminology in the French-speaking world. Each organization is described briefly. A schema of inter-relationships is given. A list of addresses is included. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

A survey was developed and completed by members of the Teacher Education Division (TED) of the Council for Exceptional Children. Results are presented for such aspects as specific roles for TED, services for exceptional/handicapped individuals, and recruitment and training of special education personnel. (CL)

This resource section provides (1) a directory of 58 recreation organizations serving the disabled that lists names, addresses, and telephone numbers, and (2) a directory of 18 camp guides that lists titles, addresses and telephone numbers of distributors and/or publishers, cost, and, for a few, annotations on sections directed at the disabled.…

Lists over 100 association publications on topics of: aeronautics and space, aging, arts and architecture, computers, consumer guides, education, educational directories, government and politics, handicapped, health and medicine, housing and land use, libraries, management, recreation and hobbies, science and technology, social issues. A list of…

This research examines the following hypotheses: (1) that members of organizations with low power have one of four ways of balancing power as a preferred power-balancing style, (2) that such styles have biographical correlates, and (3) that certain styles will be overrepresented in organizations. (Author)

Long associated with planned meetings, the author makes a plea for the involvement of participants to ensure program interest. (Editor)