Describes procedures involved in selecting and training staff members of a high school literary magazine and in preparing the magazine for publication. (GT)

Suggests that adaptation to new types of library services may require administrations to alter organizational structures and personnel management practices. A list of references is provided. (FM)

Conceptualization of staff development and a more direct role by school districts are inexorably linked to any effort to achieve greater accountability in staff development. (Author/RK)

Continuing education departments should practice what they preach by attending to the development of their own staff. Focal areas for development include customer service, organizational thinking, lifelong learning, technological advances, and worker empowerment. (SK)

Many corporations have initiated learning initiatives during the past few years. Training managers are successfully aligning organizational learning with business objectives and bringing about recognition of the relationship between work force development and corporate performance. (Author/JOW)

Examines who learning technologists are, what they do, and how they do it, based on interviews with practicing learning technologists. Highlights include working with academics on sustained curriculum development activities; staff development; descriptions of roles; collaboration as pedagogy; and a theoretical model of learning technologists'…

Presents key elements for successful staff development programs concerning the use of telecommunications in schools. Highlights include offering a variety of options, emphasizing skill development, providing hands-on experience, tailoring to local situations, using examples, and providing support materials. (LRW)

Among the reasons why training and development fail are lack of alignment with needs, failure to recognize nontraining solutions, lack of objectives, expensive solutions, lack of accountability for results, failure to prepare for transfer, lack of management support, failure to isolate the effects of training, lack of executive commitment and…

Reports on a study of human resource development (HRD) as a professional field in Finland. Describes HRD as a strategic activity, relationship with adult education, historical and current features, characteristics of practitioners, and future challenges for workplace training and development. (Contains 50 references.) (SK)

Structural equation modeling of data from 214 employees indicated that job demands uniquely predicted burnout and indirectly predicted length of absence. Job resources (physical, psychological, social, or organizational aspects that reduce job demands or stimulate growth) uniquely predicted organizational commitment and indirectly predicted spells…

Responses from 380 South Korean, Taiwanese, Thai, and Singaporean human resource managers in multinational and indigenous companies revealed significant differences between the two types in degree but not form or type of human resource development activity. U.S.-owned firms had higher activity levels. Strategic human resource orientation was…

The skills acquired in a Job-Alike Workshop can go a long way toward reducing the "I don't get no respect" syndrome compounded by high student/supervisor ratios. When support personnel learn student management strategies, their daily tasks are easier, and the positive effects are noticeable throughout the entire school. (MLH)

Findings are reported from a series of studies of staff development coordinators, principals, and superintendents carried out in Georgia. The staff development needs of the three groups are identified, ranked, and compared. Implications for staff developers are proposed. (IAH)

Reports the results of a survey that examined the current level of serials standards awareness of librarians and vendors. Topics included type of serials system used, standards relevant to serials control and union lists and whether they are implemented, types and levels of staff training, benefits of standards, and areas where standards are most…

Describes a major entrepreneurship education effort developed by the North Carolina Division of Vocational Education to stimulate students' thinking about working for themselves. Includes information on staff development, curriculum development, and special projects. (JOW)