The social work supervisor's duties related to caseworkers are expediting, educating, and enabling. He uses leadership qualities to develop independence in the caseworker, which calls for a knowledgeable blend of authority and educational guidance. (Author/ST)

This article briefly examines the myths which have historically relegated women to secondary positions of influence. With changing roles, relationships, and life styles, our current value system will have to be altered. (CJ)

A study of thirty academic departments in fifteen universities examined the relationships of the functional prerequisites to personal need satisfactions. The findings raised questions about the relationship between organizational achievement and personal satisfaction in the academic department. (Author/JB)

Delegates to a community leadership laboratory found their skills in organizing, forming coalitions and perceiving power relationships'' tested when the staff became the unresponsive power group''. (Author/SP)

A resource-directive model is developed that specializes the organization's goals and decisionmaking activities into quasiautonomous units and that circumvents interunit dependencies (or externalities) in decentralization. The organization is considered to act by the sequential process of decisionmaking, operating, and then, on the basis of this…

Examines the utilization of staff conferences within the large industrial organization. Data are analyzed and presented for 680 supervisors and managers. The variable hierarchy of authority is found to be strongly related to staff-conference utilization. Contingency exposure is found to be only weakly related to holding staff conferences.…

Topic 6, The Rise of Modern Dictators, in a theme issue on Teaching History Through Science Fiction, utilizes a 1962 story to dramatically demonstrate for students how one man can develop in himself the feelings of a dictator. (JB)

The power-to-the-people, as evidenced by the increase in self-help groups, is a force that the social work profession must reckon with. This article discusses the nature of the challenge and its implications for professional practice. (Author)

A review of Value Change and Power Conflict in Higher Education," edited by W. John Minter and Patricia O. Snyder. (MB)

Reprinted from the April 1969 issue of "The New Mexico Journal for Social Studies . (AP)

Faculty participation in policy-making decisions at institutions of higher learning is examined in depth. (CK)

Excerpts from a statement before the American Board of Professional Psychologists, September 3, 1971.

This case study discusses assumptions and objectives of organizational development (OD) in general, some background of a school which recently participated in a very brief taste of OD, some essential features of the package itself and some results, and some implications. Comments follow by Gilbert D. Moore, State University of New York, Buffalo,…

This study examines the relationship patterns among families with wives who have a high work commitment (HWC) and those who have a low commitment (LWC). The former perceive themselves as having more freedom in and out of the home, and being the major decision maker. The latter feel more restricted, and make decisions jointly with their spouses.…