The nature of informal helping processes in Israeli and North American organizations are compatible, although differences are noted. Israeli managers perceive the helping interactions in their organizations to be more active and directive than their American counterparts. (Author/BEF)

Helps organizations determine if they are ready to begin a human resource planning program which requires the organization to analyze current and future personnel requirements, to develop an internal support system providing sound performance management programs, and to develop internal support systems for managing employee careers. (CT)

High school and community college counseling directors spend a great deal of their time doing administration and supervision tasks for which they have little formal training. Counselor education programs need to reexamine course offerings in administration of guidance services for the practicing counselor considering an administrative position.…

Discusses the key role of the principal in establishing an arts program in the elementary school. Briefly outlines some successful programs and points out sources of information on arts programs that would be useful for the principal. (IRT)

Briefly discusses a project that helps principals get arts programs for the handicapped started in their schools. Discusses the need for such programs and the obstacles to their implementation. (IRT)

Offers ten tips intended to help administrators make decisions and resolve conflicts. (Author/JM)

Relying on his experience as an urban principal, the author relates several vignettes to illustrate the importance of a smoothly working school team of administrators, teachers, and counselors. (Author/JM)

To cope with the increasing problem of crime in the schools, principals must be part sociologist, part security technologist, part human relations expert, and part curriculum innovator. (Author/JM)

This research indicates that educational organizations consist of a loose collection of individuals, units, or levels, each performing activities independently--as segmented units buffered from one another. The authors suggest ways administrators can be effective in this environment. (Author/IRT)

Although computer-assisted instruction is usually not cost-effective or educationally effective enough to be worthwhile in secondary schools, courses that actually teach computing and programing, although also expensive, pay off in increased job opportunities for graduates. The author explains how to plan them. (Author/JM)

Outlines how the principal can help the beginning teacher in six areas: achieving status with peers, gaining the principal's attention, becoming oriented, making a unique contribution to the school, growing personally and professionally, and associating socially with peers. (Author/JM)

Describes an instructional development team approach designed to make secondary reading programs more effective. (Author/JM)

Introducing a group of articles on middle schools, this article outlines the middle school's purpose, the best ways of teaching and disciplining their students, and the important roles of their principals. (JM)

Compares the operation and control of public schooling in Australia and the United States by exploring and contrasting the changing roles, concerns, and activities of school administrators, the federal government, the courts, elected officials, citizens, pressure groups, and "new breed" professionals. (Author/MP)

A national survey of student personnel administrators shows that they have policy-making authority for their areas of direct responsibility, that over 95 percent report directly to the institution's chief executive officer, and that student personnel services are diverse and include many traditional and nontraditional areas. (MSE)