The American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation now has a Dance Division. (GC)

Describes present administrative structure in large public universities based on data collected from 54 of the 63 state-supported universities with more than 10,000 students, and states urgent need for new, efficient forms of administrative organization of a university or any unit within it. (IR)

Library personnel improve intercommunication via autonomous committee management. (MF)

Presents a study of the causes leading to the adoption of commission and managerial administrative structures and their subsequent abandonment by 267 of America's largest cities during the period 1900-1942. Event-history methods of analysis are used. (Author/AM)

In order to use power, human resources development practitioners must first differentiate it from authority and understand its purpose. The three keys to power are engineering collaboration, brokering knowledge, and managing consequences. (SK)

Examines the limitations of present systems of management development, with particular attention to the problems caused by increasing organizational and occupational change and fluctuation. Availability: M.E.A.D. Subscriptions, C.S.M.L., University of Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YX, England. (SK)

Student participants at two universities played multisession simulation games involving the development of 18 organizations. Post-session surveys of 583 participants indicated that organizational effectiveness became more important to participants as the organizations developed. This suggests that future organizational effectiveness studies should…

The purposes, structure, and component parts of the newly formed Department of Education (ED) organizations from which educational research programs will be administered are discussed. As the climate surrounding ED changes, opportunities to take advantage of the elevated status of research will be presented. (Author/RL)

A major task of administration is planning and implementing changes in the organization. Successful administrators must understand the reasons people resist change, use techniques for dealing with resistance, and develop appropriate change strategies. (SK)

Several problems facing the new US Department of Education (ED) even before it officially begins to function in May 1980 are identified. These include staffing, organizing, and preparing a budget for fiscal 1981. Education programs from other cabinet departments, now under ED jurisdiction, are listed. (JMF)

A theoretical framework for the analysis of organizational structures should be underpinned by modes of analysis that are adequate at the levels of meaning and causation and that understand the necessity of purposes that actors attach to their conduct while explaining the complex outcomes of intended and unintended events. (Author/IRT)

The reorganization of the federal equal employment opportunity enforcement efforts and the establishment of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is explained in this description of the structure and function of specific divisions within the organization. A directory of OFCCP's regional and area offices is included. (RLV)

Discusses the impossibility of organizational change and how that impacts the role of human performance technology. Five components of technology are described, including systems thinking; personal learning and mastery; mental models; building shared vision; and team learning. (LRW)