Described are the objectives and activities of a 5-year-old local (Richmond County, Georgia) association for parents of gifted children. Organization objectives are listed and include presenting parents with information for better understanding of gifted students and supporting projects planned by the resource teachers for the gifted (such as…

The problem of developing women's resources in an organization raises special questions and issues for consideration, particularly in the entry, diagnosis, and response and closure steps of the consulting process for the HRD consultant. (Author/BP)

A proposed reorganization plan for the J. Murrey Atkins Library of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte would organize the library in the collegial mold with two departments, Public Services and Technical Services. Within each department, librarians would form a faculty with emphasis on participatory management. Decisions involving the…

Two interventions of a university-based organizational development (OD) team with the administrators of a local Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) are described. The intervention was invited by the new superintendent of the BOCES. The first intervention focused on skill development and goal clarification. Because of a crisis in the…

Both the occupational analysis program and the management engineering program are primarily concerned with task level descriptions of time spent to perform tasks required in the Air Force, the first being personnel specialty code oriented and the second being work center oriented. However two separate and independent techniques have been developed…

Publications and presentations developed by the Human Resources Research Organization during 1972 and 1973 are listed. Part I of the bibliography contains reports issued during 1973; each citation gives the document title, author, and the contract under which the work was performed. Part II provides abstracts for each document included in Part I…

This paper focuses on the theory of organizational change and development as presented by Ronald G. Corwin in his book, "Reform and Organizational Survival: The Teacher Corps As an Instrument of Educational Change," and the implications this theory has for efforts at institutional change which are being made by the Teacher Corps. Corwin…

Three key considerations (What is organizational development (OD)? Why do organizations undertake OD efforts? What are the critical phases (and their pitfalls) that make up the OD effort?) are discussed in this paper. The sections include: "What is OD," which presents three definitions of OD and the goals of OD as identified by Bennis; "Why Do…

This study attempted to identify the nature of the relationship between organizational variables and attitudinal and behavioral reactions of individuals to employment - WORK. Employee needs, satisfaction, non-work activities, and overall attitudes toward company and work were assessed through responses to questionnaires; and organizational…

This document provides an analytical survey of interinstitutional cooperation from the theories of organizational change and education. Section I poses the major questions for analysis and reviews some analytical perspectives relevant to the topic. Section II is an overview of several major facets of the phenomenon, including definitions of…

The author describes the comprehensive school system planning model being utilized in Lansing, Michigan. The presentation begins with a short discussion of the need for planning, then describes how the Lansing district organized and provided the resources for planning and how the model for planning was developed. The planning model organizes the…

This document reviews the concept of government within the university structure. Three phases of university government are discussed. The first section concerns the distribution of power within the university. Power competition among (a) trustees and administrators, (b) faculty, and (c) students is reviewed. The second section looks closely at the…

This paper reports some findings observed in the course of an on-going study of some effects of an Organization Development (OD) intervention in a secondary level parochial school. Two types of data are reported. First, data commonly found in literature concerning OD in schools, those in the social psychological dimension. These included some…

Reviews different research approaches that have been suggested by researchers working in the field of organizational analysis and management systems. (JG)