The roles of formal and informal education and training are compared in the development of managerial talent at all levels. Both relevant formal education, using theoretical and practical materials, and firsthand experience are essential. (SA)

The Small Business Administration provides three types of training for small business owners: courses, conferences, and problem clinics. (Author)

Successes and difficulties of MBO introduction in a government unit in Texas. (Editor)

A program for upgrading female supervisors'' that involves changing women's attitudes towards themselves and other women. (Editor/SP)

Discusses staffing the management science program, emphasizing the two important staffing considerations: (1) organization and (2) skill mix. (Author/RA)

An experienced English training officer who works as a management consultant states that top and middle management need, first, appreciation that an organization's tone counts for more than stated policy and, second, improvement in management personnel selection combined with flexible promotion policies which take the individual into account. (PD)

Development and implementation of a program for identifying, developing, and promoting employees with supervisory and management potential. Evaluation criteria and methods, training of personnel evaluators, and accomplishments to date, are covered. Three references. (LY)

College basketball team records were used to examine the effects of coaching changes and length of tenure on team effectiveness. (Author)

The author believes that the position inventory type of description of management requirements does a disservice to a proper evaluation of management development as it judges the subject as a personality rather than as a manager. (EK)

Relativism is a principle of management that considers human needs and values relevant to business organization. (RA)

Reports a pilot study made at the Center of Advanced Management Learning of the University of Texas (Austin). (EB)

Tomorrow's managers will need to rely less on formal authority and more on intuitive judgment. The value and definition of intuition, brain-style tests for right and left dominance that can be used to select or place personnel, and rules for building intuitive power are discussed. (SR)

Describes a study that was the first stage of a project to evaluate a management training course designed especially for a group of research scientists and senior technical staff employed by several government and quasi-government organizations engaged in scientific and industrial research. (NRJ)