Discusses the need for program development in the area of general office administration. Outlines the role of personnel administrators in the selection, training, and development of managers. Three university programs relating to general office administration are described. (RC)

Effective leaders require a state of mind without which skills and information become ineffective. Leading-edge leaders idealize, imagine, and predict; they are sensitive to the cultural environment and attempt to escape mechanistic organizational norms. (RC)

An important factor in job choice, both at the start of and during one's career, is one's psychological makeup, which must be taken into account in training and development programs. The authors relate the Jungian introvert-extrovert, judgment-perception theories to work and management, presenting data from a management work preferences sampling.…

Presents one of the modules of the Science Teaching Project of Australia. The module, Science Room Management, is designed to help teachers organize their science rooms so that they can use them more efficiently. (HM)

In his address at the 1979 National Business Education Assosication convention, the head of The Bendix Corporation looks at the economy, technology, and productivity as they relate to the education of business management students. He states that the business of business today is the whole sociopolitical economy. (MF)

A company division of 72 people that had participated in an adventure training program one year earlier was surveyed to identify the longitudinal impacts of adventure training on corporate managers, attitudes toward adventure training, and changes in work behavior. Results showed positive changes that were short-lived without follow-up programs.…

Examines the existing and projected work force changes and the ways in which organizations themselves are evolving. Discusses issues that will demand the attention of psychologists in the workplace. Examines implications for the education and training of industrial/organizational psychologists. Presents an overview of the contents of the journal.…

People are the most important resource in higher education, but allocation of resources and priorities do not reflect this reality. Individuals need developmental experiences that will prepare them for expanded roles. The major challenge is to make the workplace a place of leadership development as well as of continuous learning. (MLW)

Leadership Experience Opportunity for Teachers is a career ladder program that offers a variety of administrative work experiences to qualified teachers who are interested in becoming principals. (MLF)

South Africa's political system has deprived blacks of voting rights and educational access. Recent educational reforms have been hampered by education's continued alignment with political ideologies. Since many are severely hurting from conflict in their communities and schools, mediation programs are sorely needed, along with leadership and…

Formulates 3 hypotheses based on contingency, congruency, and contextual relationships, and tests them empirically on a dataset of 71 randomly selected Dutch secondary schools. Results show that managerial competence is most obvious during hard times, and that principals need more crisis-management training. (52 references) (MLH)

The need for interpersonal skills among educational administrators was examined. Educational administration graduate students were found similar to the general population in attending, empathy, respect, and concreteness. After training of school administrators in interpersonal skills and group management, assessments indicated significant,…

A 1987 grant from the Danforth Foundation enabled the University of Virginia Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies to develop and pilot a restructured principal preparation program several years in advance of a program restructuring deadline. Changes in educational administration will not occur without principal role changes,…

Three articles discuss instructional design considerations in education for executives: (1) "The Use of the Measurement of Continuous Improvement Model for Training Program Evaluation" (Ferdinand Tesoro); (2) "The Systems Design Approach to Developing Computer Based Instruction" (Gerry Costello); and (3) "Training as a…

This article discusses how alternative assessment strategies can tap into learners' espoused theories of action and ways in which educational platforms and portfolios become strategies for revealing learners' theories. The leadership preparation program of the University of Northern Colorado (Greeley) shows use of platforms and portfolios in a…