In November 1973 the Minneapolis Public Schools' Leadership Development Committee conducted a needs assessment of school administrators' professional development requirements. Three-fourths of the approximately 260 people surveyed returned the survey questionnaires. The respondents were mainly principals and assistant principals. Findings of the…

Planning, a key management responsibility, is the process of determining the thrust of an organization's activities. The basic concepts of planning are objectives and policies. Objectives are the ends by organizational effort. Policies limit the means by which ends are sought. Strategic planning concentrates on determining the ends to be sought,…

The insights of developmental psychology have rarely been applied to the business setting. This paper sketches one large-scale attempt to do just that in the development of managers in a large, multicompanied, international service corporation. This paper recounts the initial efforts to plan, implement, and evaluate a three-year longitudinal…

Most college administrators are anxious to make use of management science techniques to assist them in operating their organizations. Despite their positive attitude, however, these administrators seem to lack a systematic method of approaching their specific organizations to decide which areas of application and what techniques should be…

School administrators on all levels are facing new challenges and demands for new skills and capabilities. More and more is being demanded of education as society becomes more and more complex. As more is demanded, the responsive capabilities and leadership sophistication of school administrators become critical factors in meeting the challenge of…

As the roles and responsibilities of vocational education have increased and expanded it has become necessary to identify, select, educate and train leaders. Recognizing this need for leadership development this study assessed the behavior and the leadership dimensions of management in four occupational settings as reported by inservice management…

This 1971 Supplement updates the 1970 edition of Bricker's Directory (see ED 034 945); used with the 1970 edition, it provides pertinent information about the programs and an objective description of their content and conduct. During the last year, three programs have been discontinued and one new one will begin in 1971. The pages of the…

First-level supervisors from a cross section of business and industrial organizations provided evaluative and descriptive information about the immediate work group which each supervised. From this information, a model was built depicting first-level supervisory perceptions of behaviors which lead to work unit effectiveness. This model was…

This document contains the papers presented at a symposium held to examine the implications of the varied factors encompassing the certification of educational researchers as expressed by the Consortium of State and Regional Educational Research Associations (SIG). By definition, the educational researcher is one who possesses competencies in the…

Librarians have advanced degrees in the library field, not in the field of management. But the higher one goes in the institutional hierarchy, the more time must be spent in managing. Librarians must take the management process seriously and understand what good managing is. Managers are constantly appraising their staff and being appraised by…

This document is designed to assist college and university administrators locate places where they can obtain help on management procedures throughout 1974. Activities sponsored by associations, corporations, and consulting groups, in addition to a number of seminars and short-term professional development courses given at colleges and…

This report concludes the final phase of a project designed to help occupational and manpower training administrators apply the best available management concepts to the analysis and solution of a wide variety of problems. This 2-week experimental institute was presented to a group of Massachusetts administrators from such organizations as public…

This document reports on a management development study within the Department of Transportation (DOT). The aim of the study was to develop a systematic approach to management development for military and civilian personnel. A variety of methods was used to gather data including having DOT staff members gather the information to be passed on to the…

This document is comprised of two appendixes that provide a portion of the materials utilized in the project to test the feasibility of adapting business management practices to educational institutions. Included are the educational planning process documents for two of the eight participating management teams. Each planning process document…

This document is comprised of two appendixes that provide a portion of the materials utilized in the project to test the feasibility of adapting business management practices to educational institutions. Included are the educational planning process documents for two of the eight participating management teams. Each planning process document…