Analyzes the recent strong recovery of the seminar business, tracing it to renewed interest and the general economic recovery. Attempts to provide planning information for hardware, off-the-shelf materials, custom-design, outside services, and seminar/conferences budgets. (JB)

Discusses the unique training problems of Witan Associates Limited, a company with Japanese and American employees. Their three-part training program is described: (1) contact with the training company, (2) two-day classroom seminar for all staff, and (3) corporate and departmental meetings. Results of the program are discussed. (CT)

Outlines 10 steps for schools to take to develop an administrator internship program. (MD)

This examination of the organizational development model of change as it applies to management development within a complex organization of higher education includes some practical results from applying this model and insights into how to manage a public or private organization. (MBR)

Describes a study of the National Association of School Principals Assessment Centers and their impact on career opportunities for women. The study found that the centers have had a major influence on the women interviewed. (MD)

Describes principals' responsibilities in overseeing educational technology. Outlines computer knowledge and skills principals should possess about hardware, software, word processing, data bases, spreadsheets, integrated software, and school applications (scheduling, grading, recording attendance, budgeting, maintaining inventories, etc.).…

Reviews managerial and leadership research. Concludes trainers and managers ought to pay more attention to integrating both kinds of research as well as organizational theory. Suggests scholars in both research areas should devote themselves to the managerial role and the meaning of change. Suggests other fields of inquiry. (BRR)

This is the second of three articles discussing a learning preferences approach to management self-development. Two case studies of individual managers illustrate the process. An organizational case study is also provided to show how organizational structure and culture interact with the learning and problem-solving styles of employees. (SK)

In South Carolina a practicum-based copperative internship program for potential administrators has been developed. It gives students a unique opportunity to put into practice administrative concepts. (MD)

Surveyed 107 college faculty members to study their involvement in consultation activities. Results suggested professors consulted most often with large businesses and did more training than organizational development. Respondents reported courses in research methods and professional association workshops were helpful to their consulting work.…

Staffordshire Local Education Authority and North Staffordshire Polytechnic have served both individual and joint interests by developing a program for potential head teachers that incorporates lectures and seminars, weekend schools where experts from educational and business administration illustrate good management, and summer schools devoted to…

Explores the question, "Should women entering management positions continue to be trained in courses especially designed for women?" (WL)

Education specialists from Latin America met in Lima (1) to determine workers' educational needs arising from management participation and (2) to identify the programs and methods which would fulfill those needs. Both concerns are the topics of the discussion. (BP)

Western Electric's accelerated management development program for hand picked college graduate students consists of a high risk training project in which the management candidate accomplishes his task or is terminated. The success of such projects puts candidates in third level management in seven years or half the normal time. (DS)

The authors propose that the manager's total career life (total life space, middle level behavior alternatives subject to personal control, and interactive, interpersonal communication, focused on mutual career development) be considered in approaching career development, rather than artificially isolating segments of the individual's life. This…