A SELECTION OF EXPERIMENTALLY TESTED MATERIALS, THIS REVISED AND EXPANDED HANDBOOK IS DESIGNED FOR USE IN DEVELOPING NATIONS IN GENERAL AND IN THE EMERGING AFRICAN NATIONS IN PARTICULAR. THE FOLLOWING ASPECTS OF STAFF DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RELATIONS TRAINING ARE PRESENTED--TRAINING NEEDS AND CULTURAL INFLUENCES IN ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICAN NATIONS SOUTH OF THE SAHARA, GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS, PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENA (EXPECTATIONS, ROLES, AND SUCH), EXERCISES IN COMMUNICATION, OBSERVATION, PROBLEM SOLVING, DECISION MAKING, AND OTHER PRACTICAL HUMAN RELATIONS AREAS, USEFUL INTERGROUP ACTIVITIES INVOLVING OBSERVATION, COMPETITION, AND COLLABORATION, PRACTICAL EXERCISES IN RESOLVING INTERGROUP AND INTERCULTURAL CONFLICTS, THE ROLE AND FUNCTIONS OF T GROUP TRAINERS, AND USES BY THE TRAINER OF SUCH DEVICES AND ACTIVITIES AS GROUP EXPERIMENTS, PAIRED INTERVIEWS, ROLE PLAYING, AND RATING SCALES. ALSO INCLUDED ARE ILLUSTRATIONS, A WORKSHOP INTRODUCTION AND SCHEDULE, AND 26 REFERENCES. THIS DOCUMENT IS AVAILABLE FROM THE NATIONAL TRAINING LABORATORIES INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, 1201 SIXTEENTH STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C. 307 PAGES. (LY)