NEWSLETTER SOCIETY FOR PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION

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EDWARD MCCRENSKY. PRESIDENT
E. CHARLES WOODS. VICE-PRESIDENT
LELAND P. DECK, SECRETARY-TREASURE
CARL B. BARNES. CHAPTERS OFFICER
Mc NEWSLETTER Editor
Catherine Coleman
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Vol-7, No. , September 1955
SEPTEMBER 27.DINNER MEETING - OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES NEW SPA YEARS
- 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday-Sept.27
- Barker Hall
17 & K Sts., N.W-
- $1.90 per person
Reservations - Call
Miss Elizabeth Haggart
6
liberty 5-700 or
Code 131, ext. 41211
before deadline of
10 a.m. on Mond
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Injecting.a new flavor, SPA Vice-President
E. Charles Woods, chairman of the dinner meetings
program and hie committee arranged for this
opening dinner meeting, a panel discussion
vital issue of public personnel policy -
"HOW CAN WE SOLVE THE
CO REST PROBLal?
John J. Corson, Washington manager for
McKinsey an omparV, will act as chairman, and
will be joined by Dean John T. Fey, head of the
George Washington veraity Law School, and
Robert L. L. McCormick) prominent local attorney,
who as been active in the Hoover Commission and
in the Citizens' Committees for the Hoover Report.
eptember
Members and their guests are welcome:
John J. son
John T. Fey., Dean
Robert McCormick
. The "conflict of interest" issue has become.,a high point of public interest in recent
months, with Congressional inquiries underway, and considerable public controversy. How-
ever, it has been a continuing problem, with every Administration since World War I calling
upon top executives in private industry to come into the public service. The Society is
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A MESSAGE FOR YOU FR OK THE SPA PRESIDENT--
HelloS SPA is on its way as the
announcements in this Newsletter indicate.
And this is a good time for you to decide
how much more your membership in SPA may
mean in personal satisfaction.
Will you be content with a static
membership and a minimum of self-involvement
in any, of SPA's activities other than read-
ing the Journal and other publications of
the Society. Or, will you choose some
active participation in one or more of the
Society's numerous activities. .
There is really much pleasure in being
a member of a professional society in the
full sense of the word - Member.
Membership may seem unimportant unless there
is some personal identification, however
small, with a specific SPA activity.
So maybe this formula may be helpful in
getting started: (1) Select the specific
activity that appeals to you; (2) Tell the
Chairman of your interest and availability
for active participation; and.(3) Enjoy your-
self.
In Washington, Seymour Berlin has
organized a splendid work group program which
should have some appeal for each member.
Several of our chapters have also been plann-
ing work group programs. The dinner meetings
and other special events are going to be with
us soon. How about trying the formula.
Incidentally, you can also be'a good
member by bringing in a new member. Will you
see what you can do!
Maintaining and building our membership.
receives. constant SPA attention. Obviously
membership dues furnish the material fuel
that keeps our organization in operation.
Publishing and distributing the Journal, for
example, requires a major slice of each mem-
ber's dues. Our membership growth in recent
years has permitted SPA to venture into now
publications. and services.
Besides the financial aspect, recruiting
new members has marW professional advantages
both to SPA and to the new member. It broad-
ens and further spreads SPA's influence for
better personnel management and also increases
our talent resources. The new member will
find mart opportunities for professional
growth and new friendships.
Please help Floyd Tift and his committee
in their membership drive. We shall all be
grateful for your cogperati4pn."
inner Program continuedt
intent upon contributing to a reasonable
solution to the problem.
John Corson is well known to Society
members anhingtonians as a former
Executive of the Washington Post. Vice-
Chairman, Hoover Commission Subcommittee
on Special Personnel Problems in Department
of Defense, Deputy Director General of
UNRRA, Director of USES, and Director,
Bureau of Old Age and Survivor's Insurance.
Ae is a past President of American Society
for Public Administrators, author of
!'Executives for the Federal Service", and
frequent writer and speaker in such fields
as executive development.
Dean Fey has been head of the George
Washington University Law School since 1953,
and has taught there since 1949. He was a
Scholarship Student at Harvard Business
School, where he got his M.B.A., and a
Sterling Fellow at Yale, where he won his
J.S.D. in addition to practice of law, he
has had experience as a member of the
Alleghany County Board of Commissioners (Md.)
and the Maryland legislature.
Robert L. L. McCormick is a member of
the law firm of Coates and McCormick. He
is also a product of Yale and the Harvard
Business School, and has had experience in
military government in Germany. He was
assistant to the Chairman in the first
Hoover Commission, Director of Research,
Citizens' Committee for the Hoover Report,
and Research Consultant to the second
Hoover Commission.
FIRST OF SPECIAL MONTHLY MEETINGS TO BE
6, at P.M.-
............
In the PeI. etua d Auditorium on
~,_ and ,Streets, N. W.
The purpose of the Special Programs
Committee, chaired by Dr. William G. Tor er
is to arrange monthly meetings, featuring
individual, topics of professional concern
1 to our general membership. In contrast to
functional, topics of the traditional round-
table sessions, the special monthly programs
are designed to offer topics of broader scope
and implications in the field of personnel
.management.
The
speaker at this meeting is Mr. Frank
Brassor,
eco c. of the Second Hoover om.,
now Dir.,
Bureau of Management Services, CSG.
The
topic will be Personnel and Civil
Service 'l
a orce report of the Second Hoover
omiissio
n and the Homer Commission recommen-
a ons i
n connec on with that re ort.
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MEET THE MEMBERS
The SPA Work Group Program Chairman
for this year is Seymour S. Berlin of the
Civil Service Commission. Although it means
another sizable
piece of work in
his busy life,
Seymour was eager
to undertake the
assignment because
he sees in it an
opportunity for
the SPA and CSC to
benefit each other.
He believes that
the CSC will profit
from the ideas and
work of the SPA Work Groups, and SPA members
will be provided a channel for transmitting
their ideas to CSC's planning operations.
For 8. hours a day, plus, Seymour is
occupied with the problems that f ace the
chief of the Program Planning Division of
the CSC's Bureau of Programs and Standards.
His previous work experience furnished
a good background for his present job.:
He began his Federal service in the personnel
office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in
19111. And transferred to the Commission's
Sixth Regional Office in 1912 as an Examining
Representative. Later he was chief of the
Region's Examining Division and then Deputy
Regional Director. In 1950 he came to the
Commission's central office as a Program
Planner and later became chief of the Program
and Procedure Section of the Examining Div.
From 19113 until early 1946, Seymour
served in the Army. As Master Sergeant he
devised an IBM method of processing military
assignments that permitted making thousands
of assignments in the time formerly taken to
make a few. The great value of this con-
tribution was felt at the time of the Battle
of the Bulge when replacements were needed
quickly to make up for the great losses suf-
fered at that time.
He was awarded the Legion of Merit for
his contribution, the highest award given
for noncombat accomplishment.
Seymour's wife, Edith, and their two
children, Jeff and Marcia, were reluctant to
leave their family and friends in Ohio to
come to Washington but now love their new
home. The Berlins manage to visit in Ohio
One individual for another". ... }asaryk
a couple of times a year and their families
visit them too, so that family ties remain
strong.
The Berlins' favorite relaxation is a
long, lazy day at the beach. They take
advantage of every opportunity to spend
their free time in this way and hope soon
to build a home at Drum Point on the Bay.
Seymour taught the children to swim and
they love the water as much as their
parents do. On all expeditions they are
escorted by Laird - a Sheltie (miniature
collie to the uninitiated) and a very im-
portant member of the family.
Seymour claims two left hands with
respect to do-it-yourself projects.
He prefers to read and therefore does
little damage around the home.
Modern history and world events are his
favorite subjects, a continuation of an
interest expressed in his undergraduate
major in history and political science.
Jeff, now almost 10, differs from his
father. He likes ancient history best and
intends to be an archeologist. Marcia, at
8, has not committed herself to a career
yet.
Seymour has varied interests in the
area of personnel management. He likes
solving new problems. His success in doing
so is evidenced by the fact that the
Arthur S. Flemming Award Committee pre-
sented him with a Certificate of Merit
"in recognition of meritorious and outstand-
ing accomplishments in Government Service
during the year 195211.
He believes that among the more press-
ing new problems to be solved are problems
of compensation and evaluation of personnel
programs.
--By Margaret McCamy
TO SPEAK in PHILADELPHIA:
Philadelphia members will have a chance
to see what Bernie Shultz of the Newsletter
staff looks like, on the afternoon of Oct-3.
He will address a group of Philadelphia
Federal Personnel Council members on the
subject "Combined Standards", - about these
new-tangled ideas of matching up classifica-
tion and qualifications standards.
1'There can be no, peace or calm in this World
Until there is N11 honor and respect of
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CHAPTER CHATTER . Carl Barnes, - Field Chapters Officer
FAR EAST CHAPTER:
The first meeting of the Far East
Chapter was a gala event. Many people who
have been dealing with each other for years,
personnel-wise, met each other face-to-face
for the first time. The meeting was
unusually well-attended by members and their
guests from Yokosuka, Zama, Yokohama and
Tot yo, in spite of the heat, travel distances.,
transportation problems, and need to be
"on the ball" at the office the following
morning. Joseph Durham, Jr., Civilian
Personnel Officer, Central Command, introduced
the principal speaker, Jim Mead, founder of the
Far East Chapter.
Joe's message was timely and emphasized
the importance of the Society as a medium
through which representatives of the various
services can meet and exchange ideas.
Among other things, Joe said, "Those of
us here will look back upon tonight's meeting
as a milestone in civilian personnel adminis-
tration in the Far East. In the past, it has
often been.a question of doing the best one
could under somewhat trying conditions.
Frequently, the Army conducted its per-
sonnel administration in one way, the Navy
another, and the Air Force still another, so
that we have had varying personnel programs
in the Far East.
While we have come a long way in the past
.ten years, there is a lot of room for improve-
ment and progress. As members of the Society
for Personnel Administration, we can gather
together to exchange ideas for the betterment
of the Federal Government's personnel programs
in overseas areas".
SPA MEMBER FRC14 GERMANY VISITS STATESIDE
Larry Epperson,.organizer and former
president of the Heidleberg, Germany SPA
Chapter, visited friends in the States
recently. During his stay in Washington
D. C., Larry reported to some of his SPA
associates on plans for an active year
among SPA members in Heidleberg.
We'll be looking forward to receiving
reports of problems you folks discussed in
your meetings, Larry.
And mighty glad you paid us a visit.
gl 9 IRI
See Cosmo potA ~ %
"The Most mpor eop e n a
Background story next Newsletter.
The most important part of Jim Mead's
message had to do with "empathy", which is
often neglected in actual human relation-
ships. Webster defines "empathy" as
"the projection of one's own personality
into the personality of another in order to
understand him better". Jim said he picked
this up at the Personnel Management for
Executives course conducted last March by
the Department of the Army, Washington.
He strongly recommended that "empathy" be
adopted as a doctrine for all personnelista.
We should seek to understand the other man's
problems as if they were our own.
He boiled it down to "service to the
man with a problem".
(Incidentally, we're glad to hear that
Jim, who has resigned his position with the
Department of the Army to accept employment
with private industry, lans to maintain an
active interest in SPA;p)
Elected to office in the Far Eastern
Chapter were:
President Harold E. Eubanks, Army
Vice-President Harold G. Robinson, Air Force
Sec.-Treas. Irene J. Borg Army
Executive Committee:
Ric ha_Tnderson, Army; Joseph C. Durham,
Jr., Army H3gtrs. Central Command; Marjorie
C. Goodman, Army; John W. Qunkel, Navy;
Marion C. Leonard, Japan Central Exc. Armed
Forces; Ward F. Olsen, Japan Proc. Agency,
Armed Forces; Commander Stewart M. Pratt,
USNR, Navy; and William A. Torpey, Army.
DENVER CHAPTER:
Officers for the 1955-56 term:
President Everett K. Gould, Bu.Reclam.
Vice-President Carl P. Oumeson "
Sec.-Treas. Pauline J. Mullen Naval Air
eta.BucklgY
Executive Committee
James Bishop Air Force Sch. for CPAdm.
Jefferson H. Hiatt Bureau of Public Roads
George It. Holte Bu. Land Mgt., Area III
John A. Nelson U. S. Forest Service.
2li~rryi.ng all xvn-
iV%a ons. yours ssing, watch for
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CHAIRMAN BERLIN REPORTS ON WORK GROUPS:
The objectives for the 1955-56 work
group program have been formulated by
Chairman Seymour Berlin. They give partic-
ular emphasis this year to the problem of
bringing field chapters into the program.
Tentative subject matter areas for
1955-19,56 include supervisory development,
communications, job evaluation, case
methods, compensation, executive develop-
ment, personnel program evaluation, man-
power planning, human relations, perform-
ance evaluation, training personnel people,
and central office-field relations.
Each work group chairman will be asked
to establish objectives and a method of
operation for the group.
This should aid members of the Society
in choosing a work group. It will also
help to insure effective use of time by the
participants.
UR. TO 22
Attached to this Newsletter is the
announcement of something new for SPA, -
a Fall Institute.
The Work Group on Supervisory Develop-
ment has prepared an impressive one-day
program for Saturday, October 22.
Guest speaker is Wendell F. Wood, who
heads up personnel research at International
Harvester Company, Chicago. This company,
working with Ohio State University, has been
conducting some of the most important recent
experiments in the effectiveness of super-
visory training. Mr. Wood will talk on
"Challenges in Management Development".
The highlight of the afternoon program
will be a panel discussion on
putting supervisory training to work, by:
Frank J. McKenna
Chief Executive Officer, Railroad
Retirement Board - Chicago
James N. Mosel
Assoc. Prof. of Psychology, George
Washington Univ. - Washington
William Oncken, Jr. Chief, Training and Development
Dept. of Army - Washington
Albert F. Siepe?rt
Executive Officer, National
Institutes of Health - Bethesda
Programs will, of course, be subject to
modification in accordance with the views of
the group's members.
At least three institutes are planned -
Supervisory Training on October 22, .1955
(see announcement below); Personnel Prograx
Evaluation in the Spring; and Executive
Development in the Fall of next year.
Additional ones may be created when work
groups have established their objectives.
The names of chairmen and schedules of
meetings will be announced in the next edition
of the Newsletter.
Inquiries on the program should be
addressed to Chairman Seymour Berlin, Program
Planning Division, U.S. iv Service Com.
or to Vice-Chairman Jule M. S arman - of same
address - who is being of invaluable assist-
ance to the chairman on this project.
Under the leadership of Fred Peterson,
program chairman, the workshop has been organ-
ized in 11 separate clinics. In each clinic
there will be a number of resource people who
are experts in the particular subject matter
areas of the clinics. (Look for a story on
these resource people in the October Newsletter)
Clinic chairmen and co-chairmen are:
A - Ray Crosby, Navy, & Dewey Starnes, N.O.L.
B - Leonard Vaughn, G.W. U. , & Jack Epstein,Army
C - James Enneis, St.Elizabeth's &
Ed Stetter, N.S.A.
D - Milon Brown, Armor, & Marion Yount, Agric.
E - Juanita Jackson, Commerce, & Carl Hafer, GSA
F - Ollie Cockrell, Army & Ellen Kesler
G - Joe Golden, VA & Walter Hollywood, VA
H - Theodore W. Taylor, Indian Affairs, &
Robert A. Luke, Na.Educ.Ass'n
I - Col. H. F. Sykes, Jr., E.R.D.L. &
Raymond Randall, C.S.C.
J - L. D. Korb, CSC & Willard Hield, Marine Corp
K - Arnold Lessard, N.S.A., and
Augustus C. Johnson, G.W.University
Participation is limited to 100. And the
applications will be considered in order of
receipt, - so get yours in early.
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THE ANNUAL SPA GRIDIRON DINNER
Editor's Note: If you weren't there, you really
missed something, and this should make you resolve:
to go next year. If you were there, we think this:
will make you chuckle in memory all over again.
Anyway, here's what happened .
THE GRIDIRON STORY, -- By Esther Lawton
barker Hall lived.up to its name on June 21
last, with John Moore as "barker" and, master of
ceremonies, to announce the skits and songs at the
SPA annual Gridiron Dinner.
The head table was filled with notable guests
including departing officers, new officers, the
W. Richard Lomax followed the skit with two
parodies wo s created rna bhuitz) to t o
tunes of I'll See You in My Dreams, When I Grow
Too Old to Dream, and Siboney..
The first two were devastating tidbits on
the then mush-too-delayed pay raise. Heaven helps
the workingman, however, because their themes
about growing too old to enjoy a raise and having
to depend on an annuity were fortunately frustrated.
The words to "Siboney" ("S.P.A.") which is
"the tune that they croon to every young J.M.A."
might well become a theme song for the Society.
The use of visual techniques was ably executed
by Carl Auvil, Robert Dwinelle, Katherine Welch and
Marion Norby as the pantomists. Miles Manchester
retiring Editor of the Society's Journal: Personnel
Administration, and his successor, and a miscellany
of other V.I.P.'s.
Glen Stahl,, retiring editor, received a com-
mendatory document attesting to his stellar per-
formance, and made a few of his usual'witty comments.
Bill McDonald as outgoing president carefully
disclaimed liability for the sketches to follow, and
turned the presidential gavel over to Ed McCrensky.
After customary ecomiums about the past per-
formance of departing officers and assurances to
emulate them on the part of the new officers, finally
we settled down to the business of the evening.
The opening feature of the program was a song
sung by a barber-shop quartet, neatly stair-stepped
from the long to the short (in height, not hair).
No performance today would be complete without
reference to that hero of song and story Davey---
only, in this case, instead of Crockett, the hero
was a financial figure created by Carl Barnes,
known as Davy Warbucks, "King of the Financiers".
The tenors, who should change the tenor of
their ways, were George Barritt and Custis G. Meade;
Tom Klechak baritoned to the sass tones of Karl
wk, an lmer Lusk supplied the accompaniment.
Davy arAbiucks,, you know, was "Bred in big
business where methods are bold; spent his life
making silver and gold; read in the papers that the
Government failed to make more money than it spent".
The rest of the story told how Warbucks flew to
Washington to help out and got snafued on the
security check, conflict of interests and general
red tape.
Continuing in the vein of big business, Esther
Lawton and Bernard Shultz enacted a "subtle satire
perpetrated, produced and presented" by them on
improvements in personnel management made by big
business. The scene was supposedly a meeting of the
Rover Commission where ideas were literally, kicked
around. The ultimate recommendation made by big
business man Gordon Schenley Calvert, the Fifth, was
complete annihilation of personnel to achieve
maximum improvement in personnel management.
as the "visual techniquer" vocally dubbed in expla-
nations of the antics on the stage.
The demonstration was that of a good executive,
one who knows which way he is going (he follows the
arrows to the rest room), makes quick decisions (he
shoots a subordinate), does not hold things up (has
an opening in his incoming tray so that materials
placed in it fall immediately into the outgoing
box) and who possesses other significant attributes
and engages in other momentous activities. It was
a clever skit done with spontaneity and alacrity.
After that bit of gaiety, the lights went low
and the spotlight was directed on Marion Norby at
the piano, who sang her own version of the current-
ly popular song hit "Let Me Go, Lover". This was
about the girl who was "rif'd" and prayed that
Jerry Kluttz would "come through".
However, though "they hurt me badly, don't
tell Adlai", was her refrain. She begged for a job
with a plaintive "take me on, take me on, give me
a Job, Mister, - I'm alive, a GS five, and I can
?spell... I've got status, and loyalty too".
Apparently her plaint was effective because
the last verse finds her back on a job, taking."but
one coffee break" and applying herself fervently,
primarily because "You should see, Mother, Whatta
Boss, tall and dark, Oh, whatta boss!"
Marian sang and played with finesse and earned
a well-deserved encore.
The only real way to find promotional oppor-
tunity was demonstrated by Robert Bird as Mr. Dimwit
a coffee-maker (the human type) and Muriel Greenwell
as Miss Fit, a position classifier. It was a per-
sonnel administration type of love story where girl
(classifier) meets boy (coffee-maker) and in the
course of an audit find that a stuffy lunch is more
conducive to gratifying results than the stuffy ap-
plication of position classification principles.
In short boy makes girl appreciate his position and
it all ends happily ever after. (Continued)
(In the next issue, space permitting, we?promise to:
help immortalize songs of the "Personnelity Boys",
a highpoint of the Gridiron entertainment. Ed.)
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In Personnel Administration
IMPROVING =iF EFFECT IT VENESS OF SUPERVISION
Effective administration depends Training and development is an essen-
ultimately on the quality and skill of tial aid to efficient operation, says the
managerial personnel, says the Hoover President's policy statement of January
Commission. 1955.
CAN YOU MEET THIS CHALLENGE;
To help you find out and practice some of the latest and best methods of improving
supervision through training, the Society of Personnel Administration has organized a
full-day workshop in Washington.
At the workshop, you will hear an outstanding speaker from industry who has tested
supervisory training through research methods; you will be able to choose from among eleven
information-packed and dynamic clinics in which to participate; and you will hear an eminent
panel of top executives report on what top management expects from supervisory training in
terms of increasing mission accomplishment and smoother operation of an organization.
THE SPA WORKSHOP ON SUPERVISORY TRAINING
When: Saturday, October 22, 1955
(Admission by Advance Registration Only)
Place: GAO Building, 7th Floor, 5th and F Streets, N.W.
(Free parking in the basement of the building)
This "Workshop" has been planned and organized by the SPA Work Group on Supervisory
Development. The members of the Work Group have succeeded in bringing to this "Workshop",
for participation in each of the clinics, outstanding leaders and resource people. This
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WORKSHOP PROGRAM
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Dewey E. Starnes, Publicity Chairman 8:30 - Registration and Reception
Frances Fox, Arrangements Chairman 9:00 - General Session
Abe Neustadter, Exhibits 9:30 - Morning Clinics (page 2)
is an opportunity you can not afford to miss.
L. David Korb, Work Group Chairman
Fred Peterson. Program Chairman
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Work Group Members
George Koenig
Charles Goodman
Willard Hield
Walter Hollywood
Randell NcKechnie
James Stockard
Juanita Jackson
Jack Epstein
1l:45 - Luncheon
Speaker: Wendell F. Wood
1030 - View of Exhibits
Ray Crosby 2-00 - Afternoon Clinics (page 2)
Milon Brown 4:00 - General Session, Panel:
Joseph Golden Frank J. McKenna, Chief Executive
Ellen Kessler Officer, Railroad Retirement Board;
Marion Yount William Oncken,Jr., Chief, Training
Carl Hofer and Development, Dept. of the Army;
Paul Rigtrup James N. Mosel, Associate Professor
Robert Donahue of Psychology, George Washington
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Albert F. Siepert, Executive Officer,
National Institutes of Health.
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9.30 - 11.30 MORNING CLINICS 2000 - 3050 AFTERNOON CLINICS
A. FUNDAMENTALS OF TRAINING ADMINISTRATION
Exploration and discussion of how to
effectively administer a supervisory
training program. How to get started,
obtain participation, secure management
support. Structuring the group, sched-
uling, timing and facilities.
Demonstration of counseling and coach-
ing techniques as a means of helping
supervisors clarify their problems and
develop effective ways of dealing with
them. Application in supervisor train-
ing.
C. ROLE PLAYING
Demonstration of action methods in
dealing with human problems -- Warm up
technique -- use of role playing in
supervisor training.
D. REVIEW OF SELECTED TRAINING MATERIALS
NEED DETERMINATION AND TRAINING
EVALUATION
METHODS OF INDIVIDUAL TRAINING
I, APPRAISAL FOR DEVELOPMENT
Explanation and demonstration of
appraisal panels as a basis for plan-
ning supervisor training based on
individual need, Discussion of their
use in government and industry.
Discussion of selected agency super-
visory training materials, including
policy, program, and sample training
units. Comparison of philosophy,
approach, line participation, use, and
results, in each agency.
E. PROBLEM CENTERED TRAINING
A demonstration of the problem census
as a means of determining training needs
and developing sensitivity to needs. How
used to help supervisors clarify own
problems and to plan needed training
through line participation.
Demonstration of the Incident Process
as applied to human relations training.
Its use in supervisor training.
Demonstration and exploration of how
to find out what training the super-
visor needs to better do his job. How
to measure the results of training in
terms satisfactory to top management..
The relation of needs and results.
PROBLEM SOLVING BY THE CONFERENCE
METHOD
Demonstrate use of the conference
method to solve an actual problem.
For example, self-analysis and plan-
ni.ng for the development of skills
by the training officer.
How to use the work situation and
the superior-supervisor relationships
to promote individual development
through guided experience, rotation,
job enlargement, special assignments,
and deeper delegation of authority.
How the training man can help the
line carry out development activities.
K. CASE DISCUSSION
A demonstration, including possible
use of buzz groups and role playing,
with analysis of methods used and
their application in supervisor
training.
4.00 GENERAL SESSION
Putting Supervisory Training to Work
A panel of executives will discuss how super-
visory training may assist management in
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REGISTRATION FORM
SPA Workshop on Supervisory Training
Saturday, 22 October 1955
Auditorium, 7th Floor, GAO Bldg., F & 5th Streets, N.W.
Name Title
Organization
Address
Participants in the workshop
will be limited to 100.
Applications will be accepted
in order of receipt.
Registration fee includes
cost of luncheon.
Tel.___Ext.--
Make check ($2.00) payable to:
"Society for Personnel Administration"
Mail check and this form toe
Frances C. Fox,
Bureau of Labor Statistics,
14th St. and Constitution Ave., N.W.
Washington 25, D. C.
Admission by advance registration-onl
Please indicate your first choice (1) and second choices (2) in boxes for both morning
and afternoon clinics:
Morning Clinics - 9:30 - llO
Afternoon Clinics - 2:00 - 3:50
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A.
Fundamentals of Training
Administration
^ G.
Need Determination and Training
Evaluation
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B.
Counseling and Coaching
^ H.
Problem Solving by the Conference
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C.
Role Playing
Method
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D.
Review of Selected Supervisor
Training Materials
^ I.
^ J.
Appraisal for Development
Methods of Individual
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E.
Problem Centered Training
Training
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F.
Incident Process
? K.
Case Discussion
Use the space below for any suggestions you may wish to make on problems or items that
you would like to have considered for inclusion in the clinics.
In making your suggestions, identify the clinic so that this information may be given
to the proper clinic chairman.
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