Although the literature of library administration draws extensively on that of business management, it is difficult to compare library supervision to business or industrial supervision. Library supervisors often do not have managerial training and may consider their management role as secondary. The educational level of the staff they supervise…

Part of the series "Managing Highway Maintenance," the unit is designed for use with unit eight, level one, and unit 13, level two, and the certification tests for those units in the series. It contains typical management data and selected highway maintenance standards for the areas of: surface and shoulder; roadside and drainage; traffic…

In response to student inclination toward professional skill-oriented majors, the department of speech communication at Ohio University has developed an undergraduate program which offers professional undergraduate training specifically oriented to other than teaching careers. The four objectives of this program are to prepare the student to…

This comparative study is broadly divided into two parts. The first presents a simple approximate internationally data-based university overall mathematical resource model derived from an original analysis of a 15-university international sample from the CERI (Center for Educational Research and Innovation) 1968/1969 Information Survey. It…

The author discusses major barriers which hinder the accomplishment of effective employee career management and presents Self-Motivated Personal Career Planning as a means to reconcile personal and organizational goals. The plan involves employee planners and management facilitators in a process of self-assessment and goal-setting, which…

The guide presents a process of self-assessment and goal-setting involving employee planners and management facilitators. An overview and rationale of the program and instructions and procedures are discussed in Chapters 1 and 2. Chapter 3 deals with effective facilitator skills and procedural steps for self-assessment, comparison with others, and…

The problems that develop from delegation, as well as those which develop because of the lack of it, have received increasing attention in recent years. The manual presents a program based on the art of delegating authority and responsibility from a management perspective. The course is designed to help managers realize the value of delegation by…

A report on the Leadership Training Institute (LTI) and its successor, the Leadership in Library Education Institute (LLEI), reviews 1974-75 new and continuing activities and provides an assessment of program-activity patterns for the last three years. Activities reported include site visits to training institutes; special meetings of…

The Office of Health Services Education and Research at Michigan State University has clarified the functions of planning, organization, coordination, monitoring, and assessing instructional development projects. Each management function can be applied to the process of instructional development in order for the manager to achieve several…

In two parts, this book first defines the evaluation of elementary school principals as having two major phases, job performance and professional growth. The job performance phase establishes minimum requirements and indicates level of attainment. The professional growth phase assists principals who meet minimum requirements to become more…

Prepared for distribution at the 1975 Annual Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, this bibliography was assembled from the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) and Resources in Education (RIE) computer files of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). Annotated CIJE and RIE entries…

Clinical education is learning in a field setting where the emphasis is on knowledge application, feedback, appraisal, and reapplication. Mid-career administrators can improve management, communication, and political skills in clinical settings where close observation of performance, judgments about performance, and prescriptions for improvement…

This booklet examines briefly the practical justification for planned training in the distributive trades; describes what and who should be trained; and indicates the steps needed to design a system of training which the Industrial Training Board for the Distributive Trades will find acceptable and grant-worthy. It is divided into three parts:…

An attempt is made to offer guidance to industrial training boards in the training and development of full-time managerial or executive personnel and departmental or technical personnel who have, or may be given, some managerial responsibilities either in their own specialist field or in general management. Areas covered include: the nature and…

A study was made of overseas staffing procedures of large American industrial corporations, selection and predeparture training, and the job attitudes of overseas American managers. Questionnaire responses from 127 foreign operations managers (FOM) and 127 overseas managers were used. These were among the findings; (1) most overseas managers were…