The Training Centre Infrastructure Fund (TCIF) was initially announced in Budget 2004 and represented an immediate measure of the broader Workplace Skills Strategy. TCIF was a three-year $25 million pilot project, designed to address the growing need for union-employer training centres to replace aging equipment and simulators that were not up to…

This article presents a model that instructional leaders can use to engage in a change process that fosters effective instructional change in school districts and individual school buildings, specifically middle schools and alternative middle schools. The authors describe four dimensions of leadership and explain how each dimension informs…

Bylaws are a single document containing laws (rules) by which members of an organization have agreed to be governed. Bylaws are different from other basic laws governing deliberative societies, charters, constitutions, rules of order, and standing rules. Drafting bylaws is similar to the study of parliamentary law. It is usually a committee…

The concept of organizational goals, although basic to the study of complex organizations, is no longer analyzed frequently by organizational researchers. The discipline of organizational studies began by concentrating on organizational goals, but by the 1960s researchers had found the concept inadequate as an explanatory variable. They moved to…

Advocates the voluntary professional association as a viable instrument for progress and maintenance in contemporary society. Provides information about some current career education associations and career education-related associations. (CH)

Community colleges are complex institutions serving a multitude of constituencies with dozens of programs and activities. However, this was not always the case; community colleges (once called junior colleges) were initiated a century ago with the focused purpose of providing the first two years of a four-year college education. The concept of…

Interest in videotex/teletext technology has prompted the formation of an ad hoc steering committee for a proposed "Videotex Industry Association." The association--still in its formative stages--would educate the public as well as its members on videotex services, help develop industry standards, and act as a clearinghouse for information.…

Presents planning and evaluation as management tools that can reduce organizational trauma caused by external change pressures. Suggests that top management be directly involved in planning and evaluation. Lists eight characteristics of a sound organizational plan and cautions about five management areas requiring careful monitoring during periods…

Evaluation specialists give suggestions for preparing the presentation of negative research results and evaluation outcomes to clients. (SK)

Describes the aims, historical background, and present operations of the United Nations depository library system. Included are criteria for designation and distribution of libraries by region and type and a list of member countries without such service. (RAA)

Focuses on skills necessary for effective negotiation planning. Argues that the information processing tendencies of high self-monitors make them adept at negotiation planning. Extends existing work by relating self-monitoring to plan generation, enactment, and consequences. Indicates that self-monitoring is related to prenegotiation goal…

Many corporations have initiated learning initiatives during the past few years. Training managers are successfully aligning organizational learning with business objectives and bringing about recognition of the relationship between work force development and corporate performance. (Author/JOW)

The theory of organizational alignment considers the extent to which organizational strategy, structure, and culture create an environment that facilitates achievement of organizational objectives and development of high performance work organizations. Well-aligned organizations have systematic agreement among goals, tactics, reward systems, and…

Explains two main approaches to human resource development (HRD): the transactional, which focuses attention on training as an activity strategy; and transformational, which focuses on a results-driven strategy that is performance-centered and helps organizations achieve strategic business goals and objectives. Compares the role of HRD…

Looks at the role that training plays in the restructuring of U.S. industry, suggests that training departments have failed to demonstrate the usefulness of training in achieving management objectives, and questions the legitimacy of training's contribution to the organization's primary goals. (JOW)