This article sets forth a group process approach useful for practicing administrators charged with a program development task. Meeting formats are suggested for involving critical reference groups in successive phases of program Development. (Author)

Collective bargaining provides the basis for the first really effective instrument of faculty power and participation in the decision-making process, because for the first time, faculty is able through its bargaining agent at the bargaining table to come to grips with the real decision-making authority of the university. (Author)

Many procedures in the administration of student teaching programs may readily be computerized. (Author)

An effective management system will be possible when management scientists can recognize and deal with the political vicissitudes that face managers in the practical business of management. (RA(

This paper identifies the components of descriptive and prescriptive" computer-based systems designed to aid teachers in the management of instruction and describes the Instructional Management tasks for which computer support is appropriate." (Author/AK)

Organization development (OD) is a new and fundamental concept of an organization as an inclusive system for the application of systematic development steps. (NL)

This paper discusses the Experimental Library Management System's features which facilate user interaction, and may prove useful in similar systems; techniques for tutoring the user, adaptability for the experienced user, minimization of keying, performance of clerical tasks by exception notification, and collection of operational statistics to…

An analysis of the factors that have led to team management, including classical principles of management, the human relations or behavioral school of management, and the systems theory both closed and open. (JF)

Nursing managers have tried a number of systems to increase employee participation, and quality circles seem to be the most promising method currently available. Describes effective implementation techniques within a nursing organization. (JOW)