As part of the flourishing line of research into teachers' emotions, we report the preliminary evidences of efficacy of a pilot Italian intervention program conducted following the Ethics of Human Relations (ERH) approach. The theoretical background of the ERH approach is the attempt to integrate the construct of False and True Self with cognitive…

Socializing is an integral part of human relations and auger well for the human development. Defined as "the involvement of students in identifying standards and/or criteria to apply to their work and making judgments about the extent to which they have met these criteria and standards", self assessment by its nature teaches students how to…

Community policing is an approach to policing that goes beyond responding to emergency calls and incorporates the needs of specific communities into the entire fabric of the police force. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has made changes at the level of training to proactively create a more professional and community-oriented police…

The main purpose of this study is to investigate leadership among secondary school Agricultural Science teachers and their job performance in Akwa Ibom State. To achieve the aim of this study, three research hypotheses were generated to direct the study. Literature was reviewed based on the variables derived from the postulated hypotheses. Survey…

Working with alumni volunteers shouldn't create horror and suspense. Following a few key steps can help maintain a smooth relationship between alumni volunteers and the alumni relations office staff. In this article, the author discusses how to manage volunteers and keep the alumni volunteer relationship on track.

This guide presents activities to increase human relations skills for women. Each activity includes sections on the goal, group size, materials required, time required, objective, procedures and directions, discussion questions and key points, and evaluation. Activities are: (1) self-esteem, including sections on interaction, insights, and…

This article describes incorporation of the goals of personal growth, knowledge of group process, and application of process groups in professional settings into a course. Evidence that students participating in the course tended to respond more freely to each other, justified the continuation of similar courses in the curriculum. (Author)

The results of this study indicated that systematic human relations training for resident assistants has a significant positive effect on their helping skills. This was evidenced by the performance of the resident assistants on both the written and taped data. Even a short training program can result in significant increases in levels of helping…

This study was concerned with investigating the effects of human relations laboratory experiences on the interpersonal behavior of male and female college students. (Author)

Explores the importance of relationship literacy--the ability to create good relationships with others--in the next economy and offers perspectives on how business education instructors can help students develop and improve their human relations skills for business success. (Author/JOW)

This project did the planning and pilot phases of an effort to improve the teaching of human relations in grades K-12 of public and private schools in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area. In the pilot phase, the project furnished on-the-job training for approximately 70 schools. The training was given by teams of human relations…

Good supervisors must be aware of patterns of behavior which limit their effectiveness and should develop eclectic approaches utilizing effective human relations skills in each situation. (MB)

Ways in which an emotionally mature and perceptive person can help another with deep-rooted and seemingly unsolvable personal problems are presented. (CK)

A taxonomy of a communication skills curriculum is described which offers a continuum of learning beginning with awareness, leading to response, then to valuing, then to developing a system of values, and finally to the integration of values making behavior consistent with beliefs. (SB)

Paradoxical double binds are discussed relative to their efficacy in helping systematic human-relations trainees integrate the skills more quickly and with less pain and frustration. An explanation and examples of paradoxical double binds used in human-relations training are presented. (Author)