Research aimed at recognizing, encouraging, enhancing, and harnessing the skills and contributions of women in the Australian grains industry involved a number of women in Victoria in focus groups, telephone interviews, and questionnaire surveys. Results indicate that women perceived themselves as providing guidance, operational assistance,…

The typewriting methods course at Southern Illinois University is taught utilizing various forms of media including color slides, transparencies, learning modules for self-instruction, formulation of behavioral objectives, and videotapes. A major part of the students' activities involves preparing and using media in class presentations and…

Imaginative finance officers are finding new ways to manage separately organized businesses and investments for the benefit of the institution. (Editor)

The literacy rate in early America may have been fairly high. Three factors seem to have influenced the development of a literate population: (1) skill requirements of expanding business ventures; (2) masters' responsibility for apprentices' education; and (3) the proliferation of private venture teachers. (SK)

Six suggested units for a records management course on the high school level and five teaching strategies for the course are presented, along with information about the Association of Records Managers and Administrators, and the course materials available from this organization. (MF)

On the basis of a survey of U.S. undergraduate business schools and industry, a study defined the curricular content (knowledge and skills) in electronic data processing (EDP) and statistical sampling (SS) needed to prepare the accounting study to audit computerized accounting systems. (CT)

Secretarial survival skills of communication, organization, and decision making should be incorporated into the secretarial training program, according to the author. She discusses these skills in relation to career mobility. (MF)

Business administration college seniors participated in an interactive, incident-style exercise which determined the emphasis they placed on key considerations in policy formation. Results indicate that emphasis by game-trained students was significantly greater than a control group but similar to that of students trained by case analysis.…

Describes a technical writing class developed for an off-campus class of scientists which used the scientists' own writing as a basis for course work. (MKM)

A program integrating classroom study and internship placement at LaGuardia Community College was designed to provide secretarial students with expertise in telephone techniques. Specific lesson objectives and a field assignment are included as examples. (TA)

Describes a project that helps students solve real business problems, share leadership roles, delegate duties, write collaboratively, present orally as a team, and manage conflict as they serve as consultants to small business owners. (RS)

Describes the Business Skills Outreach program of the Rochester (New York) Educational Opportunity Center, which targets Hispanic Americans 17 years or older, offers courses in clerical skills, and provides job placement. (JOW)

Describes Minnesota Clerical Assessment Battery (MCAB), one of the first computerized tests for personnel selection to be made commercially available to businesses. Maintains that application of computerized testing to business is somewhat different from its application to education or counseling. Presents results of survey of potential users who…

Outlines basic organizational skills to aid early childhood service directors to maximize time and efficiency. Recommends recording priorities and auditing how time is spent; noting wasted time; and organizing desk, supplies, and resources. Includes eight steps for staying organized. (DLH)

Describes the California Community Colleges' goal to advance the state's economic growth through quality economic development programs. Discusses the importance of assessment and presents the results of an outcome evaluation, stating that California will collect $1.42 in taxes over the next 10 years for every dollar it spent on economic…