The benefits of business gaming seem to have become accepted without sufficient scientific support. While support for some claims based upon expert opinion is probably sufficient encouragement for continuing the use of business games, empirical validation is still a necessity. (Author)

Transactional analysis (TA) theory is being translated into action in a rapidly increasing number of business and industries. Life script awareness, one of four TA components, is discussed as important in career development. Pertinent books are commented upon and suggestions given oh how to obtain experiential education in life script awareness, (…

A systems approach to management development in today's business world becomes more than a theoretical diagram of how things should work or just a training program. It is an assessment of a company's strengths and weaknesses and should be a prelude to successful business planning. (Author/DS)

Approaches to developing management ability include systematic techniques, mental enlargement, self-analysis, and job-related counseling. A method is proposed to integrate them into a responsive program involving depth understanding, vision of the future, specialization commitment to change, and self-monitoring control. (MS)

Recommendations for comprehensive education and training programs for minority business owners are: coordination at State and local levels; local level delivery systems; improved curriculums; increased support for formal business education; career awareness programs; work experience programs for potential minority entrepreneurs; recognition of…

Results of a questionaire sent to twenty five firms in Atlanta asking the question: What five major qualifications are you looking for in hiring a management trainee with a college degree?'' (GB)

Agencies are no longer required to submit with their budget submissions the multi-year program and financing plans, program memoranda and special analytical studies -- or the schedules -- that reconcile information classified according to their program and appropriation structures. (Author)

Describes a program designed to upgrade the skills of business owner/managers and supervisory personnel. (SB)

A program for school administrators involves the establishing of performance goals on a mutual basis with objectives that are measurable and attainable. (Author)

Charts illustrate the concept of managers training their own subordinates by a Do-It-Yourself system" used successfully by the author. (Editor/SP)

How Turkey, a country with rich agricultural technology know-how, developed management talent with U.S. help. (Editor)

Emory University's external management institutes for government and industry provided an ideal model for an in-house development program. (Editor)

Postulates an alternative mode of conceiving organizational structure with educational administration as an illustration. The implications for the concepts of power, authority, and leadership are examined as well as those for administrative status. (Author)

A special interview in which Dr. William H. Curtis, project director of the Research Corporation of the Association of School Business Officials, tells about the progress of the project and the problems encountered. (CT)