NOTES ON ORR MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2005
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1. That the Conference is: A full-time 5-day conference of
selected ORR officials, Staff and Division Chiefs through Assistant
Director levels, dealing with typical management problems and management
measures. Such a program was proposed several months ago by (ER, and a
preliminary outline was developed for ORR consideration by OTR. After
study and modification, the program has been adopted for a trial by the
Assistant Director for Research and Reports, with the endorsement of the
Deputy Director for Intelligence.
2. The purpose of the Conference: To provide time and favorable
circumstances in which the group of supervisory officers in (ER can give
thought, individually and in exchange with others, to the management
responsibilities which to a degree they share in conzim n: accomplishments,
problems and prospects.
3. Vhen the Conference is to be held: 27 February . 2 March, inclusive.
The meetings are to be held away from Washington, but no travel time will
be required before Monday morning, and, barring foul weather,, none will be
required after 1700 Friday afternoon. Full time, including evening work,
will, be called for from each participant.
4. inhere the Conference is to be held: At a classified site out of
town. It is far enough so that participants will not be pulled back to
their desks by minor crises, but can be reached by telephone at any time,
and can return to Washington, in case of serious need, in _,less than
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24 hours. The site, on which participants will be fully briefed, is
not to be discussed with anyone who does not have a need to know. This
Conference, the first use of the site for an exclusively DD/I activity,
should not be the occasion for a breach of security. You will be supplied
an dTR telephone extension through which your office can reach youj transporta-
tion by air will be provided to the site on Monday morning, 27 February, and
back tjo Washington on Friday afternoon, 2 March.
5. that participants will be called on to do: Essentially, to put
assignments on the job into perspective as management problems. This can
be done only by the individual participant for his awn job, but the
Conference will provide certain exercises and stimulation, among them:
a. Advance reading. Slightly less than 600 pages of general
background reading are strongly urged for all participants.
Book sets are being made available to participants.
b. Lectures. Four to six hours of Conference time will be
devoted to lectures covering one or another phase of the
theory of public administration.
c. Supplementary reading. A kit, issued to each member of
the Conference, will contain a sampling of current manage-
ment periodical literature.
d. Exchange of ideas in discussions. Case histories, reading,,
and supervisory problems will, furnish the basis for the
exchange of ideas and/or prejudices concerning management
problems.
e. Preparation of study paper estimating the present situation
in (R with respect to a particular aspect of management.
Total reading time required before the Conference is approximately 12-15
hours for an average reader, correspondingly less for a rapid reader. There
will be relatively little free time during the week of the Conference.
Discussion and reading can be counted on to fill most of the unscheduled
periods.
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