Activities and findings of the Higher Education Management Institute are reviewed as of October 1976. In general, the initial assumption of need is borne out by responses from 557 colleges, since no more than 2 percent of higher education institutions have any management development and training programs underway. This report describes the project…

This document reports the activities of a leadership workshop attended by 43 persons representing library and media personnel at all educational levels for the states of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho, and Montana. The purpose of the workshop was to identify individual leadership styles, identify and practice group process skills, review and…

Intended for evaluators--whether trainers, psychologists, management consultants or professors--this bibliography samples findings in management training evaluation between 1953 and 1975. It contains 28 abstracts of representative articles from journals in applied psychology and personnel management. Each abstract is a one-half to one-page…

Volume II contains handouts and transparencies for use with the trainers' guide, a manual for administrators, assessment personnel, and others involved in the development and implementation of individualized education programs (IEPs) for handicapped children in Wyoming. The instructional materials are organized by module subtopics (except for IEP…

This report presents the proceedings of the pre-conference seminar, "Careers and Management: Strategies for Women Professionals," which concentrated on issues related to (1) practicing techniques and strategies which can be applied to on-the-job situations, especially as related to career advancement and (2) developing methods of overcoming…

UNIQUE FEATURES AND FLOOR PLANS OF FUNCTIONALLY DESIGNED CORPORATE TRAINING CENTERS ARE DESICRIBED. THE TRAVELERS EDUCATION CENTER HAS SIMPLY DESIGNED ROOMS AND FEW AUDIOVISUAL AIDS (AV). BUTLER MANUFACTURING HAS ITS STUDY CENTER IN A WING OF A MOTEL WHICH IS CONVENIENT TO THE GENERAL OFFICES AND DOWNTOWN AREA. SINCE COMPANY PERSONNEL USE THE…

A survey was made of inservice training and development for accountants in 53 selected business firms varying in products, sales volume, and employees. Program philosophy and objectives, qualifications and selection of trainees and instructors, program content, instructional programs, and evaluation procedures were examined. Inservice programs,…

American Indian education needs a framework in which to sequence and prioritize objectives. Broad goals must be translated into specific product, process, and consequence objectives, which realistically consider the future in terms of promoting adaptation to change. A future oriented framework for consideration might be a power inclusion model…

The correspondence course in supervision is designed for adults interested in self development who hope either immediately or ultimately to assume supervisory responsibilities. Each of the 10 chapters contains an introduction, a statement of what should be learned from the chapter, written course material in paragraph and outline form, and a…

The May, 1974, bulletin issued by the Civil Service Commission deals with job restructuring, the process of realigning job duties to develop technician-type or "bridge" jobs in Federal agencies, as a means to provide upward mobility for employees. Besides being highly beneficial to employees in dead end jobs at low grade levels, job restructuring…

This paper describes the objectives and organization of the Middle Management Center (MMC), a university-based interdisciplinary resource team dedicated to improving school management practices through involvement with school principals. The author, who is also director of the MMC, first discusses the place of principals in school administration…

Public Technology has been defined as a technology "explicitly responsive to the policy goals and operational requirements of civil governments." The Council of State Governments found in a recent study that "state universities have a major potential to bring applied science to the service of state governments, and that this…

Responding to the public demand for accountability, Project R.O.M.E. (Results Oriented Management in Education) is concerned with identifying and developing competencies for building-level administrators. This two-volume report, one of six interrelated documents, describes the processes and procedures used to identify school administrators'…

A list of carefully selected readings on ways to organize the information flow within a company, this bibliography presents 68 annotated references to literature illustrating the problems of putting information across to industry and establishing information services within industrial firms. The publication is primarily aimed at the information…

This directory of Federal Educational and Training activities contains 25 completed reports and studies, followed by 48 others on programs still in progress. The Civil Service Commission, Post Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Departments of Commerce, Defense, and Health, Education and Welfare report activities of both…