An Evaluation of Programmed Instruction in a Management Development Program

A broad definition of management has been given by Claude! ,_ ---••--Management is the determiner of our economic progress, --the• employer of our educated, -the amasser -of our resources, the strength of our national defense, and the molder of our society.It is the core of all our public as well as personal activities.And it is all these things because man has found no substitute for it in the effective achievement of his goals.lManagement has had its role in society.since the beginning of man's evolution.In the earliest periods when family groups, then tribes, formed for mutual assistance in hunting and protection from enemies, man even then recognized the need for authority and the necessity for a system of management which would allow for the even flow of common affairs of the group.With the beginnings of management, man was able to plan for and organize and direct his efforts toward the communal effort necessary for his own development.The education of the individual was directed toward the continuation of the values of ing.the problem and defining the objective relatin~ to the area under consideration, (2) gathering the factual data, (3) developing possible solutions or alternative courses of action, (4) analyzing the facts and the alternatives, (5) deciding upon a single course of action, and (6) recommending and arranging the plan for execution.Research in problems of motivation and productivity indicate that p-lans are implemented more enthusiastically and effectively if those who must carry them out have been involved 5 in their development.Thus, to tne extent possible, persons who 1Ko6ntz and O'Donnell, Principles of Management, p.•73 2Edwin S. Rose~~,