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IN the paper "The Staff College in Training for Management", Mr. N.F. Hall, principal of the Administrative Staff College, reviews his experimental work during last two years in bringing the College into operation, and this paper has now been issued into the British Institute of Management, together the introductory remarks of Sir Charles Renold and a report of the discussion, as the first report in the Winter Proceedings series of the Institute. Mr. Hall stresses that the task is to make a co-ordinated group out of individual specialists and to increase the capacity of those trained in administration and in different fields of technology to work together. The bulk of the work of each course is carried out by the discussion method, and this ensures that the basic principles of administration and their practical application will be examined. The study of biography has been introduced to provide opportunities for discussing the importance of personality and character in administration and to liberalize a concentrated practical course. While emphasizing the value of a well-balanced admixture of practical experience among the members of each session, Mr. Hall recognizes that the size of any mixed staff college must be small, both because of the importance of all members getting to know each other and because of the limits dictated by the group-discussion method used. Accordingly, great care should be exercised to avoid building up a privileged caste of those who have passed through the Staff College, from which there cannot at present be an annual output of more than about two hundred. As to the length of the course, Mr. Hall thinks it should remain at about three months or else be increased to a year ; and for the present he thinks that three months represents a reasonable working compromise.
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Management Training at Staff College. Nature 163, 673 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163673b0
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