The May, 1974, bulletin issued by the Civil Service Commission deals with job restructuring, the process of realigning job duties to develop technician-type or "bridge" jobs in Federal agencies, as a means to provide upward mobility for employees. Besides being highly beneficial to employees in dead end jobs at low grade levels, job restructuring…

This paper describes the objectives and organization of the Middle Management Center (MMC), a university-based interdisciplinary resource team dedicated to improving school management practices through involvement with school principals. The author, who is also director of the MMC, first discusses the place of principals in school administration…

Public Technology has been defined as a technology "explicitly responsive to the policy goals and operational requirements of civil governments." The Council of State Governments found in a recent study that "state universities have a major potential to bring applied science to the service of state governments, and that this…

Responding to the public demand for accountability, Project R.O.M.E. (Results Oriented Management in Education) is concerned with identifying and developing competencies for building-level administrators. This two-volume report, one of six interrelated documents, describes the processes and procedures used to identify school administrators'…

A list of carefully selected readings on ways to organize the information flow within a company, this bibliography presents 68 annotated references to literature illustrating the problems of putting information across to industry and establishing information services within industrial firms. The publication is primarily aimed at the information…

This directory of Federal Educational and Training activities contains 25 completed reports and studies, followed by 48 others on programs still in progress. The Civil Service Commission, Post Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Departments of Commerce, Defense, and Health, Education and Welfare report activities of both…

The aim of this handbook is to provide training directors and all others interested in business games with an organized listing and description of business games and their sources; and to provide a source of sufficient data to help them select games for a particular purpose. The games are categorized as general purpose games, used in management…

Management development and supervisory training are covered in this 210-item annotated bibliography. Bibliographies and other information sources are listed, followed by studies on such background considerations as training needs and interests, career patterns, learning behavior and achievement, and program planning. Works on human relations…

A large proportion of American men and women are in occupations which involve business management. The syllabus gives the classroom teacher and school administrator a complete course outline with correlated teaching suggestions in addition to suggested projects and sources for a management library. Chapters 1, 2, and 3 offer general information…

The small college computer center's problems--sources and types of service, programing support and faculty development, administrative and academic interfaces, computer science and computer center interfaces, computer center policies, orientation and organization and services of users and groups--are generally individual, and any given problem…

The module presented here is a performance-based, individualized, programed learning activity. As he proceeds through the document, the administrator-participant can develop and practice specific activities in a simulated setting with colleagues until mastery of a design for using the program in his particular school can be demonstrated. The…

The third in a series of books on human potential, the focus of this book is the leadership and management capability of people in public service. The chapters of the book are: 1. The Leadership Gap; 2. The Leader: Definitions; 3. The Issue Develops; 4. Creative Pressures for the '70s; 5. The Private-Public Dialogue; 6. Response: The Universities;…

This speech gives a brief picture of the characteristics and components of a program to change and improve administration in educational organizations. This program affects adinistrative change by providing participants with specific training for their change agent roles and by concentrating on the school system from which the participants come --…

A two-year master's degree program in international business studies was initiated by the College of Business Administration at the University of South Carolina to educate the business manager who will deal with foreign countries. The language component comprises an important part of the program. (SW)

Reviews research on principals' behavior and research differentiating between more and less effective principals. Traces potential policy implications in the areas of program implementation, principal selection, preservice and inservice training, and district level organization and management. (RH)