This paper reports the results of a survey of the trends, developments and problems in public administration and management training in less developed countries (LDCs). The survey is based largely on published information and is limited to the training of middle and upper level personnel in...

In a series of six experiments, prediction of exam performance from information about motivation and ability as well as about motivation alone or ability alone of students was studied. The factorial plot of the Motivation x Ability effect always yielded the parallelism pattern with subjects from...

Virtually all situations require a judgment or decision on the basis of several separate pieces of information. Grading a term paper, evaluating a job applicant, selecting a leader, or simply listening to a speaker, all involve integration of several pieces of information. What rule governs the...

The subject of this case study is the role of intellectual property rights in the benefit-sharing arrangements surrounding the work of the Bio-resources Development and Conservation Programme (BDCP) as a part of the International Cooperative Biodiversity Group (ICBG) in the field of traditional...

Public Administration studies of bureaucracy provide valuable perspective but little specific guidance to an administrator who wants to improve his effectiveness. Present study differs in as much as it looks at administrative behaviour in terms of elements of operational managerial process –...

The monograph discusses the implications of the results of studies done in cooperative and competitive behaviour with children from grades 4,6 and 8 and the college students. The nature of cooperative and competitive behaviour has been discussed. The results on personality differences, age...

The broad focus of this paper is to seek a framework of functional Urban regions to give better understanding of the impact of public policies in the fields of population distribution and economic development. There are two major concerns which prompted this effort. First, there is a feeling...

This paper studies the problem of improving the utilization of the non-suburban passenger fleet of the Indian Railways. The constant growth of the non-suburban passenger traffic outstrips the additions provided to the fleet, which any way is an expensive proposition. The improvement in...

To prevent accentuation of regional imbalances, the role of public enterprises in backward region is well recognized in most developing countries. However the exact processes through which such a development could match the expectation of rural poor in these regions remains ambiguous. The growth...

Investment in the private corporate sector, including the joint sector, has shown a substantial rise in 1977 as compared with 1976. However, this substantial rise has been contributed largely by the projects in the joint sector. Corporate investment in 1978 is likely to rise above the 1977 level...