This secondary distributive education performance-based instructional unit on preparation for career promotion contains seven lesson plans, each based on a fifty-five minute period. The lesson plans cover the following information: (1) the different roles of an effective manager, (2) the manager's responsibilities to subordinates and supervisors…

This report clarifies pilot efforts which address new problem areas in educational needs. The project was initiated to determine the specific competencies essential to the management of educational projects in research and development. The goals of the project were to establish a profile of identified competencies for use in planning the content…

During its second year the Consortium for the Development of Professional Materials for Vocational Education developed six competency-based modules for use in the preparation of local administrators of secondary and postsecondary vocational education programs. A four-stage development process was used: preparation of module prospectus, preparation…

An experimental course was devised for 36 law enforcement administrators which provided for contact periods spread over eight months and a final retraining session in the 12th month. The course integrated study of the behavioral sciences and communications, executive and professional skills, speeches and informal discussion for professional…

Helping young executives develop oral communication skills is an important task of business schools. A course that requires informal, timed, extemporaneous talks as well as extended formal presentations allows students the opportunity to be evaluated by their peers and by faculty members as they grow in their ability to communicate. Formal…

The document describes the special curriculum course offerings for the General Management Training Institute. It contains a general information sheet, a curriculum calendar for 1976, and course descriptions for the following courses: administrative officer seminar, analyzing managerial key results areas and formulating objectives, creative problem…

Leadership/administrator training programs require a base that defines and explains clearly the variables that affect the structure and functioning of schools and the roles and behaviors of their leaders. Such programs need materials, support tools, and basic information on recruitment, selection, and preparation which a combination of research,…

Focusing on the impact of participant characteristics on learning, this study investigated whether certain teaching methods are more effective than others in changing the knowledge and attitudes of adults with specific personality profiles. A total of 117 persons from each of five sections of a course ("Coaching and Developing Individuals")…

Stressing changes in program status, this study examined all American universities offering executive development programs (EDP). Criteria were six program features and six institutional characteristics. Information came from conference brochures and standard statistical sources, interviews with program directors and researchers, and…

Focusing on community education and development, this literature review analyzes the problem of determining community and individual needs; the issue of relevance to the community; the meaning of need (as opposed to interests or desires); and the use of community studies, listening posts, surveys, and power structure analysis as evaluation tools.…

Based primarily on British conditions, this volume concentrates on methods of industrial training for production workers, craftsmen and technicians, office personnel, technicians and technologists, supervisors, marketing and sales personnel, and the junior, middle, and senior or executive levels of management. General principles and fundamental…

Designed as an introduction to industrial psychology, this work ties the findings and theories of individual and social psychology, human relations, and group dynamics to the behavior of executives and other members of large organizations. Such aspects and concerns as personality, leadership roles and styles, conformity, productivity, differing…

Five basic assumptions underlie the effective application of the systems approach to educational management: (1) the purpose of an educational system; (2) the need for improvement in the educational programs of the 50 States; (3) the complexity of local and State educational programs; (4) the present nonsystematic management of most State,…

A plan to integrate consumer education concepts into the Maryland public school curriculum has presented broad goals, concepts, and objectives to form a framework for comprehensive consumer education. Compelling forces accelerating the need for consumer education have originated within schools to make education relevant to the problems of real…

A system has been developed to identify, locate and evaluate learning materials for use in an external degree program in management at Syracuse University. It consists of five elements, each of which is a set of physical objects or documents: the interaction of these sets transforms the demand for learning materials into an output of retrieved…