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Booth, Brent – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Virtual teams are a burgeoning presence in the corporate environment today. Research shows that virtual teams have begun to surpass conventional teams in meeting the demands of organizations that are increasingly called on to apply and respond to new technologies that support, and in some cases, require a virtual teamwork approach. In order to…
Descriptors: Expertise, Research Design, Qualitative Research, Opinions
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Pratzner, Frank C.; Russell, Jill Frymier – Journal of Vocational Education Research, 1984
Examines quality of work life (QWL) development in American business and industry, highlights the major skills and knowledge required by QWL developments, and discusses potential applications of QWL developments for the content, instructional processes, and organization and management of effective schools and vocational education programs. (JOW)
Descriptors: Business, Classroom Environment, Educational Quality, Industry
Lehmann, Phyllis – Worklife, 1978
The quality of worklife concept means to create organizational environments in which labor and management cooperatively work together. In the United States, the moving force behind most quality of worklife experiments is the American Center for the Quality of Worklife. Discusses the successes and failures of some of these experiments. (EM)
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Experimental Programs, Humanization, Job Satisfaction
Montgomery County Public Schools, 2006
The "2005 Annual Report on Our Call to Action: Pursuit of Excellence" details the school system's significant progress toward meeting the identified milestones within each of the system's four strategic goal areas. The overall trend data continue to provide strong evidence of the effectiveness of our strategies and initiatives detailed…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Federal Legislation, Work Environment, Educational Change
1980
This inventory of research and evaluation projects completed during calendar years 1970-1979 for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Education, and Research (ASPER) of the Department of Labor contains summaries of projects on economic, social, and policy background; the labor market; the nature and impact of Department of Labor…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Affirmative Action, Age Discrimination, Economic Factors
2001
This document contains four papers on organizational enhancement and human resource development (HRD). "Motivation to Improve Work through Learning in Human Resource Development" (Sharon S. Naquin, Elwood F. Holton III) argues that HRD's traditional conceptualization of motivation should be expanded to incorporate motivation to use…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Educational Attitudes, Employee Absenteeism, Employee Attitudes