Automated management information systems (MIS) process a great deal of data at a relatively low cost. Staff involvement is vital to the success of any MIS. Designers must consider how information moves in the organization and coordinate the system design with this movement. (JAC)

The natural conflict in a governmental system of checks and balances has a ripple effect, beginning with the low morale in Washington offices and ending with the recipients of program funds. A new Department of Education will not alter the problem. (Author/IRT)

Explores the self-concepts of single and married women. Single women had more psychiatric symptoms, valued personal growth and achievement, and were higher on assertion and poise. Married women were more likely to identify with kinship roles and household activities. (Author)

Two hundred forty deaf education professionals completed an inventory on burnout, career motivation, and job satisfaction. Teachers of deaf students were more likely to experience burnout than teachers of nonhandicapped children and teachers aged 27 through 30 expressed the highest degree of emotional exhaustion. (CL)

Suggestions for personal development activities for teachers to serve as antidotes for teacher burnout and complacency are listed. (JMF)

Suggests that an important aspect of effective teaching is the teacher's own self-concept as a teacher and that programs for preservice education, student teaching, and beginning teaching should include affective components which promote the novice teacher's professional self-esteem. (SJL)

Suggests interdepartmental unity as a remedy for declining enrollment, low morale, and other modern problems of the liberal arts profession. (AM)

A new behavioral technology, self-management, is directed toward developing the capacity in clients to regulate their own behavior. Among the strategies are covert modeling and rehearsal, covert sensitization, and thought-stopping. Self-management techniques have been successful with placement activities, drug dependency, alcoholism, self-concept…

Teacher burnout is described as physical, emotional, and attitudinal exhaustion; and suggestions for coping with the symptoms of burnout are offered. (JMF)

Instruments and suggestions for evaluation of coaching staff are presented. (LH)

The pressures of the educational system have some relationship to student suicide; they should be evaluated and, in some ways, lightened. (JD)

Author attributes moral discontent prevalent in Western societies to the lack of mutual basic assumptions which lead to a common social purpose. (RW)

Examines the extent to which current school practices and policies support teachers' professional development using three principles of humanistic education and concludes that humanistic considerations must be incorporated into all educational institutions. (JM)

Examines the relationship between two dimensions of organization--centralization and formalization--and two aspects of employee orientation--subordinate loyalty and esprit. Multiple regression analyses revealed that the relationships were somewhat more complicated than originally hypothesized. (Author)

This lecture examines problems of global child abuse from a human rights perspective, balancing the "good news" of the international concern for children's welfare against the scale of the crisis it reflects. The author recommends that child advocates embrace a "pessioptimistic" attitude, acknowledging these extremes by disallowing both naivete…