A reorganization of student personnel services into at least two divisions has been proposed, with many advantages for performing all its functions effectively. (Author)

The need for professional organizations to change and keep up with the times is discussed, with particular reference to the National Environmental Health Association. Reorganization of sections is needed to include educators, technicians, administrators, engineers, and other specialists. (BL)

The author compares organizational development to five criteria an innovation must meet if it would rate as a social technology. (AK)

The author maintains that features inherent in the traditional merchanistic organization hamper the creation of truly flexible and adaptive organizations. Areas focused upon are leadership, group processes and organizational structure. (26 references) (Author)

Graduate faculties may be forced to change and to undertake serious reform. (HS)

Organizations are under challenge as a result of the break with traditional authority, the growth of democratic ideology, economic affluence, changing needs and motive patterns, and the accelerated rate of change. There is a need for a new consensus about organizational restructuring acknowledging role of direct democracy and representative…

Report of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation President's Ad Hoc Committee. (AL)

A disorientation handbook for the American Library Association's (ALA) Convention prepared by the New York Social Responsibilities Round Table (NYSRRT) Committee for a More Responsive ALA. (Author)

Presents a theoretical model to account for the transformation of socioemotional group cohesiveness into instrumental group cohesiveness and vice versa, as a result of external or internal stimuli operating on the group, suggesting that instrumental versus socioemotional types are a result of the static nonlongitudinal approach to group research.…

Arguing from a transaction costs perspective, this paper contends that local organizational cultures distinct from shared background cultures exist relatively infrequently. The relationship between local organizational culture and organizational efficiency is discussed, and it is concluded that changing organizations are more adaptive than is…

PBS President Larry Grossman's management style and approach to the system's major concerns are revealed in a probing interview. (Editor)