Developed to assist managers of adult and continuing education programs, this management guide contains thirteen chapters written by several authors selected for their expertise in their respective areas. These chapters are divided into three major sections. The first section includes three introductory chapters providing (1) an overview of this…

AN OVERVIEW IS PRESENTED OF THE BROAD ASPECTS OF TRAINING FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, WITH SOME REFERENCE TO NEEDS AND EXPERIENCES IN INDIA. PART 1 DIFFERENTIATES TRAINING FROM OTHER INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES AND TRACES THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANTS AND THEIR ORGANIZATIONS TO THE TRAINING PROCESS. PART 2 DISCUSSES ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS…

This report presents baseline data describing perceptions and training needs of eight groups of leadership personnel involved in vocational programming for the handicapped. An introduction sets forth the problem--obtaining comprehensive data to assist in planning and development of appropriate inservice technical assistance activities the…

This is a report of hearings held in Washington, D.C., on March 10 and 12, 1980, on the Health Professions Education and Distribution Act of 1980--three bills amending Public Health Service Act, Titles VII and VIII, and the national health Service Corps Program. S. 2375 would extend assistance programs for training health professionals and the…

This is the third module in a four-module training package for use in inservice seminars or workshops on performance appraisal and employee development. Module 3 focuses on the actual performance review process. The first part outlines requirements for constructing objective, workable employee development plans, in particular factors resulting in…

This packet contains the materials necessary for presentation of the tenth of ten modules that comprise a portion of the National Training and Development Service Urban Management Curriculum Development Project. This module focuses on policy/program implementation which is concerned with clarification of goals, task delineation, organizing,…

This packet contains the materials necessary for presentation of the eighth of ten modules that comprise a portion of the National Training and Development Service Urban Management Curriculum Development Project. This module focuses on productivity measurement which is the evaluation of the efficiency with which resources are consumed within the…

THE STUDY OF INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AND EDUCATION AT MOTOROLA, INC., COMPARED THE MOTOROLA EXPERIENCE WITH PREVALENT THEORIES AND PRINCIPLES OF PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT. EMPLOYEE SURVEYS AND INTERVIEWS, TENATIVE AND FINAL COURSE OUTLINES BASED ON SPECIFIC NEEDS OF SUPERVISORY, CLERICAL, AND TECHNICAL PERSONNEL, EVALUATION SHEETS FOR PARTICIPANT…

This is a collection of 21 reports presented at the two-day symposium which ended the eighteen-month planning phase for OPERATION PEP. The symposium served as a culminating activity in a training program for 100 California educators in the application of systems analysis and management planning techniques. The reports, funded under Title III of…

One of a series of bibliographies within a larger series on mental health inservice training and training methodology, this publication contains 346 abstracts, annotations, and other recent selected references (largely 1960-68) on apprenticeship, coaching, programmed instruction, correspondence study, lectures, group discussion, meetings,…

A bulletin listing training available for interagency use is published annually by the Civil Service Commission. Information includes names of agencies offering interagency programs, general course descriptions, enrollment requirements, enrollment fees, addresses of office offering course and training site, dates and length of courses, and a place…

The report describes a study designed to analyze nurses' management duties and to identify their tasks in planning, organizing, staffing. leading, communication, decision making, and controlling. A total of 117 supervisory nurses and unit managers from four Western Michigan short-term general hospitals in the 410-540 bed range participated in the…

This report describes a study of the factors that contributed to decisions by women to abandon their careers as school leaders. The purpose of the study was to extend analysis of socialization factors, particularly when they persuade school leaders to reconsider their careers in education. The study followed 25 women who completed the masters of…

Using the Delphi technique, a nationwide panel of experts identified 33 competencies that volunteer administrators (VAs) will need during the next decade and categorized them into these five constructs: organizational leadership; systems leadership; organizational culture; personal skills; and management skills. Twelve barriers to acquiring the…

This publication introduces an assessment instrument to help programs implement management competencies. It discusses development of management competencies and describes the Management Competencies Assessment Instrument (MCAI) designed to help managers verify and validate their competencies and use the information for planning professional…