THE STUDY OF INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AND EDUCATION AT MOTOROLA, INC., COMPARED THE MOTOROLA EXPERIENCE WITH PREVALENT THEORIES AND PRINCIPLES OF PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT. EMPLOYEE SURVEYS AND INTERVIEWS, TENATIVE AND FINAL COURSE OUTLINES BASED ON SPECIFIC NEEDS OF SUPERVISORY, CLERICAL, AND TECHNICAL PERSONNEL, EVALUATION SHEETS FOR PARTICIPANT…

A six-week summer training institute designed to provide participants with the skills and understanding needed to help student teachers and beginning teachers to perform successfully in racially mixed schools and classrooms was attended by 119 elementary and secondary school teachers and administrators (approximately half Negro and half white)…

The report describes a study designed to analyze nurses' management duties and to identify their tasks in planning, organizing, staffing. leading, communication, decision making, and controlling. A total of 117 supervisory nurses and unit managers from four Western Michigan short-term general hospitals in the 410-540 bed range participated in the…

Most of the courses described in this booklet are intended to give an appreciation of modern management techniques and thinking in a port context. Their main value lies in providing the knowledge a manager needs to do his job effectively and to prepare himself for future jobs. The courses are: (1) Management; (2) Work Study; (3) Supervisory…

This paper describes a model program for training pre-service elementary and secondary school principals in educationally sound and legally defensible inclusion programs extending to students with emotional and behavioral disorders (E/BD). The program has three major objectives: (1) to train pre-service school administrators (principals and…

The Teachers Infusing Technology in Urban Schools project (TITUS) at the University of Illinois at Chicago is developing an approach for addressing the shortage of opportunities for teacher candidates to experience technology being used effectively in high-need urban schools in the course of their field experiences. Beyond recruiting mentor…

This module is part of a set of management and supervisor training (MAST) materials developed by the Department of Energy for the Waste Isolation Division. Its stated purpose is to enable trainees to communicate effectively in the workplace. The first section of the module is an introduction that includes a terminal objective and opening remarks…

This document contains four papers from a symposium on transfer of learning. "The Effect of a Mastery Practice Design on Learning and Transfer in Behavior Modeling Training of Supervisory Listening Skills" (Gary L. May) reports on a case-control study that drew from research in the cognitive sciences on complex skill acquisition to create a…

This guide, which is intended for new supervisors and managers to use in an independent study setting, deals with costing, balance sheets, and budgetary control. The first section, "Matters of Cost" by J. E. and J. F. Smith, deals with the following topics: profits and productivity, principles of costing, cost control and cost reduction, fixed and…

The promotion of employee assistance programs (EAP) in higher education is considered in 24 chapters, with an emphasis on enhancing resources and the academic environment for faculty and staff. Seven topical areas are addressed: history of EAP; characteristics of higher education; alcoholism and other risks in the academic life-style; EAP models…

This student guide is intended to assist persons employed as supervisors in developing training plans. Discussed in the first two sections are the importance of training (the nature and benefits of a planned approach to training) and training plans (identifying training needs and preparing a training plan). Each of these sections contains an…

A project was designed to produce a broad description of current mining training programs and to evaluate their effectiveness with respect to reducing mine injuries. The research strategy was built on the ranking of mines according to the effectiveness of their training with an effective training effort being defined as that training which is…

The Industrial Arts Leadership Development Project was conducted to (1) provide inservice training for teachers to improve the quality of instruction and supervision; (2) provide inservice training for minorities and persons with limited English capability; and (3) provide leadership development for inservice teachers, service staff, and…

This study attempts to evaluate the effects of special training for collegial supervision under the conditions of two types of organization development (OD) training within the multiunit school. The first type of OD intervention involved training for all the staff members of a multiunit school. The second was called group development (GD) and…

THE SUPERVISORY TRAINING PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES ADVOCATED IN THIS BOOKLET INVOLVE JOB ANALYSIS, APPRAISAL BY BOTH MANAGERS AND TRAINEES, AND CAREFULLY PLANNED TRAINING ON AN INDIVIDUAL AND SMALL GROUP BASIS. JOB ANALYSIS CAN BE CONDUCTED BY OBSERVATION, INTERVIEWS AND OTHER MEANS, AND WILL BE AIMED AT IDENTIFYING NEEDED SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE AND…