Examines, from one participant's viewpoint, a summer workshop designed to enable three competing groups to work together to design a new general studies curriculum for the Community College of Philadelphia. Using hermeneutic methods, analyzes participants' progress as both vying interest groups and members of one dialogical community. (13…

Proposes an instructional design model for the production of courseware and combines this model with software engineering principles to specify project management responsibilities and procedures. Describes the roles of team members involved in the project and offers a project template to manage production activities to ensure that end products…

Points out the difference between "education," to increase intellectual awareness, and "training," to make someone proficient at a given task. Suggests that the formula for real training has four components: (1) define the measure of skillfulness required; (2) define the measurable outcome desired; (3) educate quickly and precisely; and (4) train…

Describes the Quality Improvement Program developed by Florida Power and Light's Nuclear Training organization that was awarded the Deming Application Prize for quality control. Training quality, team activities, training's role in business planning, customer involvement and evaluation, and continuous improvement of training are discussed. (LRW)

Argues that theater is the natural art form of democracy. Defines democracy in theater as a system of popular rule that values the individual's contribution to defining, legislating, and regulating the common good--during rehearsals, all troupe members have to agree. Concludes that democracy in theater is not perfect, but it has more successes…

Recommends team assignments as an effective technique for business courses. Addresses peer evaluation and dealing with students who evade responsibility through a formal method of disassociating them from the team. (SK)

Principals desiring to obtain their schools' share of available grant money must direct the grant-writing process. After mastering basic principles and vocabulary, principals should form a grant proposal team, tend to public relations, share important data with team members, identify matching funds and in-kind services, contact the funding…

A group process model for team building was tested using a management simulation game with 144 business students. Compared to controls, participants who experienced the team-building process reported significantly higher satisfaction, trust, openness, and social support. (SK)

Today's participatory work cultures are moving power down through organizations. Many of them empower self-directed work teams (SDTs) with the responsibility for managing themselves and their work. Key issues in building successful SDTs include selecting team players, training for success, and rewarding team performance. (JOW)

Describes a turnaround principal's efforts to hire new teachers, revamp the educational program, and increase parent involvement in an Oklahoma City elementary school that had been closed because of substandard achievement test performance. Donna H. Lueker's sidebar describes Project Phoenix, the program that vastly improved city schools the year…

Discusses problems that arise when employees are asked to cooperate with each other to improve the company but are rewarded for individual performance. Offers solutions such as rewarding behaviors and offering a combination of salary plans. (JOW)

When faced with conflict, people respond in one of three styles: dominating, appeasing, or cooperating. Teaching students to recognize styles and choose appropriate responses can help them deal with conflict in the workplace. (SK)

Presents tips for effective meetings in the following categories: premeeting preparation, group process, presenting views with impact, accentuating the positive, dealing with politics, and bringing closure. (SK)

Describes a collaboration between 10 private companies and 10 professors from 4 universities in an effort to keep researchers on the cutting edge of both the science that underlies future generations of electronic devices and the accompanying fabrication techniques. (ZWH)

Makes suggestions for editing technical proposals. Discusses the marketeers, the hierarchy of hype, how to save days, managing story boards, expediting a laborious process, teaching engineers to write, writing incrementally, the art group, and the editing task. Argues that the best proposals come from starting to write early. (SR)