The 1978 Civil Service Reform Act mandates federal executive development. Training policies will change because executive development is now part of the management-oriented Senior Executive Service, which will implement a performance evaluation system. Implications for the employee development community concern program expansion, funding and…

Presents an exercise based on six life stages discussed in "Passages" relative to four common training and development roles. Reviews the exercise and explores three roles: internal trainer, internal consultant, and training/development manager. Actions and questions consonant with the role at each life stage are suggested. (CSS)

Describes the humanities component of the Management and Supervision Development program at Clinton Community College (Iowa) which leads to either an associate or certificate degree and offers instruction in the theories of marketing and distribution, labor problems, communications, government and its role in business, and industrial psychology.…

Reviews organizational development as a management system, stating that a content-oriented or task-requirements approach may be an appropriate intervention to help managers learn process training. Suggests a career development or management system study by a consultant for organizational development training. (MF)

Reports highlights of the American Society for Training and Development's (ASTD) professional development study to develop a model of professional roles and competencies for ASTD members. Members' ratings of trainer activities were used to construct role models for professional trainers. (M F)

Organized by the Department of European Languages and Institutions at Cranfield Institute of Technology, residential short courses in German and French language instruction are offered to senior managers of companies involved in international business ventures. The three-year history of such a course in German is discussed in this article. (BM)

Thirty-seven universities, colleges, junior colleges, and institutes were surveyed in order to clarify the available forms of educational assistance in training and development. A "curriculum cube" describes program types (resulting from the study) along three dimensions: Program level, curriculum content, and housing of program. (TA)

This first article in a series on a three-part process for the evaluation of training programs covers the "focus" phase, in which the evaluator establishes the extent and objectives of the evaluation. The following are included: Dramatization of a training program evaluation, the flow chart of the entire process, and a description of the…

The Individual Management Profile, developed to improve appraisals of managerial performance by providing feedback from subordinates as well as a self-rating, helped to assess training needs, gave specific suggestions for growth, and measured training effectiveness from on-the-job behavior change in the managers profiled. (MF)

Reports (1) results of a pilot study undertaken to monitor the performance of minority management personnel and (2) characteristics of their immediate supervisors (raters) that influence perception, in order to design training programs to assist minority supervisors seeking advancement, retention, and tenure in the organization. (Editor/TA)

The various meanings of management development are presented in the form of a working hypothesis, concluding that management development highlights the conflict between ideals of enterprise and individual development and that the relationship between the individual and his organization should be reconceptualized. (MF)

A marketing and management professor advocates the use of a marketing approach for industrial training personnel during a period of recession. He states that marketing rather than just salesmanship is needed to promote training programs for lower as well as upper management. (MF)

Gives four criticisms of present promotion practices in our education systems and a look at a few alternatives. (Editor/RK)

Genesis II is a microcomputer program developed to provide rehabilitation counseling students with expanded learning experiences in case management and to provide realistic client data for use in a variety of course activities. An overview of the program is presented, as well as discussion of implications. (Author/ABB)

Research studies on educational reform show that moving from reform to quality education through centrally designed reform movements (such as clearer legislation or other strategies) is inherently limited. Reform is most likely to succeed when schools are stimulated to change and provided with appropriate assistance and when schools receive enough…