This fall the Penns,.7lv-mi
versity initiatoe
lopmont 111 --- . Ts in Yorth-
Tvsorn Ponr_cylvaa Cnntin
uing E - ducation prcgram on Campus.
These urograms are dosin-, - 2 1 / 4 - Jvolop
close-knit, marcment
tears
Craig M. Gault, successor to C. N,
Shellito who recently retired, is conduc
ting the in-plant courses. This now fa
culty member comes to Behrend with twon
ty-six years of diversified industrial
experience in engineerin, personnel ad
ministration, and maintenance°
Lccording to ler. Gault, "The Manage
ment Development Services offered by the
University have proven most effective to
industry today, since most progressive
managoments have to come to the realiza
tion that to a great extent their va:y
survil-al in today's competitive economy
lies in the area of up.-dating the mana
gerial skills of their supervisory per
sonnel° The very nature and exL.) ,- ..t--the
broad spectrum of today's technoicgic , al
charges- havecreated a myriad of mana
gerial problems, and today's supervisor,
trained by yesterday's standards, finds
he lacks the necessary tools and skills
to resolve these newly created problems,
Our Management Development Service is de
signed to train the supervisor to cope
with these new, frustrating problems and
to help him function effectively as a
member of today's management tear."
Groups of tLenty supervisors are en
rolled in each of eight programs being
con ducted in plants in the Erie,&.,--)a
These programs being conducted at Ameri
can Sterilizer, Bucyrus-Erie : Erie Forge
and Steel, Hays Manufacturing ' , 3carany s .
Pittsburgh-Corning in Port Al]:aay,
and Sharon Steel in Sharon, Pennsylvania
are stressing such areas as huiaan rela
tions, supervisory techniques, communi
cations, motivation, employee organiza
tion and training, and technical skills.
The ultimate go :l of the progrnms will
be to make "each mnn keenly aware of
his and his management's objoctives„
acid his follow team members' job duties
and responsibilities," says Gault. "f.n
aggressive informed management team will
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firm. ,Iftr,r wri_t:Yon and or-11 -_:atervivir.n
are conducted, the results arc: analyzed
by specialists in the ilanago.c2_( - n - ; De7e—
lopmont d - ipartri . : of the Uni - T3ccity
who, in turn, pr . r.are a service
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outlining areas study is neeai,
ance a firm ecllbracts with the Uni—
versity to bring in a menagement deve—
lopment program, an initial class of
twenty—eight weeks duration is usually
started, although six distin - t units
which extend over a thl-ee—ye - ,
are Elvailable. How long a Txogram runs
depends on both the University's racom—
mendLtion and the receptivity of the
firm to these recommendctiorsc
Gault - maintainF contant with his
groun interests and neerls by holding
weel, -- ly meetings with represent:,ttives
from the respective grcu - nsc, Through
suggestions end recommenation - ; that
co= cut of these meetin;s, he is able
to cloy - to his weekly lecLiire and dis—
cussion classes to solving immediate
problms.
Si: cc joining the Continuing Educa—
tior division at Behrend in aSS3, Mr.
Gault h3.s dc, - vol:)ped one .)f rost cx—
tensilre - oroglarns in that divisl.on's
ac n t curri ,
culum. aalable ex—
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