This four-volume reference guide includes descriptions of various sources of information as well as selected products and methods used to improve curriculum and instruction. The sources are arranged according to type (bibliography, journal, or organization) and each is assigned a separate entry number. The entries are listed in numerical order in…

This senior high school curriculum guide offers a general overview of the American business system and a study of various forms of business ownership, internal organization and management functions of business, and the financing of business. Ten areas are explored in the course: (1) capitalism; (2) money, credit, and banking; (3) government and…

A methodology to describe current-value human resources accounting (HRA) was developed to aid management in decision making and provide information about the effects of organizational policies and practices on the value of the organizations' human resources. A two-phase activity was designed to investigate the nature of the relationship between…

In a discussion of several liberal education programs for executives, those run for American Telephone and Telegraph at the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, Dartmouth College, Williams College, Northwestern University, and programs at Clark University, Southwestern University, Wabash College, Pomona College, Aspen Institute, the…

This paper presents those functions of an executive that relate principally to his duty to and involvement with people. Subtopics indicate the executive as a leader, a person, a human relations agent, an employer, and a problem-solver. Leaders may be categorized by personality factors, by methods of selection, or the manner in which the leadership…

Leadership is distinguished from management. A review of key leadership studies is presented. Data on leadership styles are presented, and problems in studying them are discussed. A normative model for leadership of team-oriented task groups based on current research findings is presented. Documented lead-lag relationships between leader behaviors…

As academic libraries increase in size and become more complex, their organization tends to become more bureaucratic in nature and resistant to change. This paper describes a range of both internal and external strategies which have been used to introduce constructive change into the management of academic libraries in North America and the major…

A new edition of this bibliography (first published in 1967) includes 285 publications in print as of July 1969. Areas covered include: manpower planning, training practice--general works, retraining, training of older workers, operator training, craft training, apprenticeship, training of technicians and technologists, commercial and clerical…

Readings summarize presentations made at seminars conducted by the Continuing Education Center for the Public Service at Syracuse University. They cover: personal communication skills, kinds of information needed by a public official, and information retrieval system; how to persuade, sell, listen, argue in everyday public relations; organization…

This is a directory of 129 off-campus study centers sponsored in 1968 by 14 Federal agencies in cooperation with 91 schools and universities; nearly 26,000 government employees received career-related training and higher education opportunities. The agency may provide classroom facilities and training equipment; the university provides the…

A working party of the Engineering Employees' Federation in the Lancashire and Cheshire region in England met to consider management training and development, to examine the arrangements for management training and development in large companies, and to make recommendations to small and medium sized ones. Data collected from companies through a…

A study was made of relationships of industrial management practices to management education in West Pakistan's industrial development. Directors of institutions having management education courses, and over 69 managers at 30 family, government, and foreign controlled plants in Karachi were interviewed on policies, practices, and problems in…

This guide to the development of line managers stresses the idea that the developmental process which any manager undergoes is the product of his own activity and should be treated as a continuous function. Major line functions, managerial attributes and characteristics, presupervisory selection, and preparation through trainee, temporary foremen,…

The report of the Fourth Biennial Management Instructors' Seminar (July 21-26, 1968) which deals with the improvement of management education in the Army, contains presentations of guest speakers and reports of seminar workshops. The former presents the components of management -- planning, decision-making, productivity, communication, and…

The feasibility of using a particular simulation as (1) an aid in management, (2) a management training device, (3) a tool for management research is reported. Corresponding interfaces for the simulation are described and discussed in terms of the way they represent the activity for the user. Estimated costs are reported for alternative…