We need an eclectic management development approach combining the best features of both classroom based systems (T groups, sensitivity training, games, university programs) and of such job based systems as coaching, counseling, and planned rotation. (LY)

Management must instigate an open promotional policy; give women employees professional training; actively recruit women for professional jobs; and publicly state the organization's policy of non-discriminiation. (Editor/AS)

If middle management is destined for extinction, a new way of developing top management personnel will be needed. Author gives his views of how a Total Systems Organization will meet these new problems and overcome them. (MR)

Studies in several firms show the importance of making employees' work itself motivational to meet the needs of the new era of the motivated man. (Author/LY)

The Knitting, Lace, and Net Industry Training Board in Great Britain is beginning to work with management training, using three firms for experimental pilot projects. The Board plans to introduce this management system throughout the industry. (MF)

A brief classification scheme groups management development resources, experiences, and techniques by major purposes. A table. Five references. (LY)

Learning systems for management development consist of classroom-based systems and job-based systems. Management development as viewed from the eclectic approach is a highly individual matter. Higher priority will be placed on training the individual rather than training the group; and the needs of the individual will have relevance to the needs…

Describes an exploratory study of student boredom as a block to learning, and reviews some of the implications for trainers if boredom is to be treated as a serious and frequent matter in management training. (MEAD Subscriptions, CSML, University of Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YX, England). (NJ)