Profile training should be designed to develop the four basic interaction skills of situation analysis, interaction objective establishment, behavior planning, and behavior monitoring. (KP)

Two articles contain reservations concerning courses held by the Tavistock Institute (1971) and a defense of such courses. A headmaster asserts that the content of such training programs typically fails to match the priorities of the practicing administrator. A second respondent reviews the purpose of such courses, their aims, evaluation, and…

Outlines outcomes of organization development in the York County Board of Education, Aurora, Ontario. (DS)

Criticizes the university-sponsored executive development programs as being designed more for the convenience of the institution than for the needs of the business man. (DS)

With a records and forms management system, the administrator can control his paperwork. (Ed.)

Discusses problems involving the replacement of expatriate managers with national managers.'' (Author)

The trainer or internal change agent in a firm undergoing an organizational development program may be instrumental in designing the implementation of a change strategy. Proposes a situational change typology which may be of use as a training instrument. (Author)

The authors, both psychologists employed by a large British company, examine some of the difficulties that can occur when the training department of an organization is asked to train managers in the use of an appraisal program. (Editor/AN)

The author discusses a program designed to provide project management training to educational personnel. (AK)

Because of the complexity of the English Postal Service a Postal Management College has evolved. Complete description presented in this article. (AF)

A student accommodation management system can answer that question. (Author)

There were 72 fraternities studied to discover reasons for the variation in the degree of success attained by these organizations on campus. Analysis revealed a significant positive relationship between success as a fraternity and the use of management practices indicating that organizations would find such practices influential in future survival…

Job enrichment means giving people more decision-making power, more responsibility, more grasp of the totality of the job, and a sense of their own importance in the company. This article presents evidence of the successful working of this approach (Donnelly Mirrors), and the lack of success with an opposing approach (General Motors). (NL)

The systems approach to training has generally been applied to short-cycle, operative craft skills tasks. The system is more difficult to apply to complex, non-reptitive supervisory and managerial skills without considerable cost. This article reports the first part of a study to try to overcome this problem. (SE)