The primary tasks of intervention activity are introduced in Chapter 1. In Chapter 2, the conditions necessary to develop the competence of any social system are explored. In Chapter 3 the probabilities that client systems will tend to manifest these conditions are examined, and in Chapter 4 it is shown that the research methods used by an…

The objective of putting together this collection of readings are: (1) to organize the many diverse changes in the human resource development field, (2) to establish links between new and old trends in this field, (3) to choose areas that are on the "cutting edge" of human resource development, and (4) to present different points of view about the…

The College of the Whole Earth proposes a utopian alternative for community colleges to insure personal success of the people in their own community and in the world. A raison d'etre for this approach is shown in mankind's growing realization of the earth's limited resources. A multi-campus community college structure could respond to the new…

The National Center for Educational Communication (NCEC) contracted with Rand to develop a range of potential objectives and structures for the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) system that could render it more effective in the future. The Rand study team surveyed the scope and sources of education literature and studied the…

This report is the 11th in a series of interim reports stemming from the U.S. Metric Study, which is being conducted by the National Bureau of Standards in accordance with the Metric Study Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-472). Although it mainly concerns the relationships of measurement units to engineering standards, the issue of international…

This paper develops a conceptual framework for identifying organizational change and applies the framework to understanding organizational change. The main focus of the framework is the concept of "leading parts." Leading parts may be dominant or catalytic in their impact on systems; and understanding their operation requires analysis of the…

In 1973, the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and the New York University School of Engineering and Science merged to form the Polytechnic Institute of New York, acquiring the largest graduate engineering enrollment in the U.S. Activities carried out under a Carnegie Corporation of New York grant are summarized in this report. It is shown that…

The Sports Institute for Research Through Change Agent Research (SIR/CAR) is an interdisciplinary, public professional, study/action group, which brings together theoreticians and practitioners to investigate topics of vital interest to sport or athletic organizations functioning at the community, provincial/state, national, or international…

The origins, development, and effectiveness of Action for Children's Television (ACT) are examined in this pamphlet. The strategies used by ACT to obtain change at the congressional level and within television stations and networks include the following: a "tuneout" day when people are urged to turn off their television sets, a boycott…

Extensive appendices constitute the major portion of this document detailing the organizational history of the Central Office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and its Office of Indian Education Programs during the reorganizational period of 1966-74. A brief summary of this period in the BIA includes the following major points: the…

This paper presents a review in phenomenological perspective of the diagnostic and prescriptive literature that asks why and how educational reforms occur. The work has three objectives. The first is to search the historical and current international literature for educational reform theories and to demonstrate how these theories are rooted in…

A discussion of the problems reorganization has created for the three new local educational authorities of Northumberland County, Newcastle upon Tyne Metropolitan District, and North Tyneside Metropolitan District is presented. Adult Education services prior to reorganization, various changes, and continuing problems are discussed. (LH)

Arguing that the personnel manager will increasingly have to become a change agent and process consultant, the author discusses tasks involved and skills required for the new role. A shift in focus toward top management as the primary client and utilization of more flexible intervention into organizational processes are predicted. (JT)

A college dean surveys possible effects of collective bargaining in terms of administrator role change; faculty evaluation and rewards; use of faculty competition for teaching, research, and community service; transfer of power to younger faculty; rejection of research as advancement criteria; intensification of tenure and fiscal problems. (JT)

This article discusses how partisan mutual adaptation developed when efforts were made to change the existing authority system in classrooms and schools in the Rand Corporation's study of federal change-agent programs. (RC)