The problems faced by public managers in managing an agency's internal operations and communicating with the outside world are described, and strategies for addressing these management problems are provided, as is personal advice on how to build and maintain a professional reputation and advance in the bureaucratic hierarchy. The following…

This study was undertaken to assess the impact of children's behaviors on employed parents' adjustment and to test a specific model of how spouse support may facilitate coping with the stress of a difficult child. It was hypothesized that child behavioral difficulty and spouse support would affect maternal depression through the mediation of…

This paper presents findings on the biographic and demographic characteristics of volunteer sport administrators and their involvement in sport organizations. The sample for the study consisted of volunteer sport administrators in 60 province-level sport organizations in Alberta, Canada. This study was done because of the dearth of research in…

As a supplement to the standard in-school high school curriculum, the Executive High School Internship Program provides experiential learning opportunities for gifted high school students. The program focuses on management-level field placements through which participants learn to make decisions, interact with the world-of-work, and assume…

A study examined the potential effects on journalism management of the recent influx of women into journalism schools. In addition, the study sought to predict the career progress of women currently in journalism schools to the editorial ranks by measuring feminine traits (the limited aspirations of women and feminine communication patterns) that…

The development and analysis of the Professional and Managerial Position Questionnaire (PMPQ) is reported. PMPQ is intended to serve as a job analysis instrument for higher level occupations than those assessed by the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ). Four approaches to job analysis are described with different emphases on the requirements of…

A study was undertaken to provide a base of knowledge concerning managerial roles at the corporate level in the television industry. Specifically, the study sought to determine (1) the amount of time consumed by corporate television executives in different managerial roles, (2) the importance of different managerial roles as perceived by the…

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 telephone survey of 217 men and 232 women who held middle-level management positions at 363 daily newspapers in the United States was conducted to compare their job responsibilities, compensation patterns, and personal characteristics and to examine their attitudes concerning job aspirations, mobility, and relations with their superiors. The…

Conducted as part of a Farm Management Education Research and Development Project which was examining the use of variations of the Farm Management Education Program in meeting the managerial needs of agribusinesses, the descriptive study reported here was done to determine attitudes of 359 farm implement dealership managers in North Dakota towards…

A role-making model of the leadership process is tested and refined within a major university setting. The model assumes that administrative leaders attempt to reduce their costs and increase their benefits by differentiating among unit members in the accomplishments of unit tasks. As a consequence of this differentiation throughout departments,…

There has been a continuous improvement in the capabilities of business school graduates over the past 20 years. However, more "feedback" is needed to let business schools know how their graduates are doing in the marketplace. The demand for management talent will become increasingly greater for 4 main reasons: 1) corporations have doubled in size…

The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…

Limited attention has been paid to the impact of sex role stereotypical thinking on the performance of women in management. The author examines research on organizational factors. differential placement, tokenism, and supervisory bias. (Editor/RK)

The author presents an approach for screening job applicants for professional and managerial job openings, emphasizing job-related rather than interpersonal skills. Detailed interviewing techniques to evaluate applicants' education, job knowledge, managerial capability, and personality characteristics are given. (MF)