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Cobble, Dorothy Sue, Ed. – 1993
This book contains the views of 40 contributors on women and unions, organized into 15 chapters on six topics: Closing the Wage Gap; Meeting Family Needs; Temporary and Part-Time Work: Opportunity or Danger?; Homework; Developing a Realistic Approach; New Directions in Organizing and Representing Women; and Female Leadership and Union Cultures:…
Descriptors: Adults, Collective Bargaining, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship
Storey, Keith – 1997
This final report briefly describes activities of a project which developed and evaluated specific natural support intervention procedures to increase the social integration of employees with severe disabilities using single-subject, clique analysis, and social validation methodologies. The project resulted in the publication of 6 journal articles…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Hygiene, Quality of Life, Secondary Education
Garcia, Mildred, Ed. – 2000
Written for faculty of color in order, to address challenges specific to that population, this document discusses the challenges associated with pursuing higher education as a profession. It offers advice about building a career within the academy. Contributors to this volume explore how they have brought new scholarship into the academy, offered…
Descriptors: Black Teachers, Career Guidance, Career Planning, College Faculty
Chawla, Sarita, Ed.; Renesch, John, Ed. – 1995
This anthology contains 32 essays: "Beginner's Mind" (Sarita Chawla);"Communities of Commitment: The Heart of Learning Organizations" (Fred Kofman, Peter Senge); "Managing the Dream" (Charles Handy); "Ahead of the Wave: Valuing Gender Perspective in Learning Cultures" (Marilynne Anderson); "Mastering…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Change Strategies
Hawaii Committee for the Humanities, Honolulu. – 1988
This eight-page tabloid-style report presents an overview of past and present working conditions in the United States as a whole and in Hawaii in particular, with emphasis on women and on lower-level workers. The seven articles in the paper cover the following topics: "A Brief History of Labor in Hawaii" (William J. Puette); "The…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparable Worth, Employed Women, Employees
Sandhu, Daya Singh, Ed. – 2002
This book is divided into five major sections that focus on the various perspectives, needs, and concerns of employees in the workplace. Chapters include: (1) Work: Meaning, Mattering, and Job Satisfaction (K. M. Connolly); (2) Spirituality in the Workplace: An Overview (E. J. Looby and D. S. Sandhu); (3) Developing the Whole Employee: Some…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counseling, Counseling Theories, Disabilities
Walz, Garry R., Ed.; Knowdell, Richard, Ed. – 2001
This book contains conference papers from the 2000 International Career Development Conference. The intent is to broaden the dissemination of the ideas presented at the conference, and to provide the authors with an international platform for communicating their ideas. The presentations include the following: (1) "Retaining Knowledge Workers:…
Descriptors: Career Centers, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Planning
Bohen, Halcyone H., Comp.; And Others – 1983
Articles collected in this book address issues arising from the fact that the American workforce is increasingly composed of parents. Included in the collection are short newspaper and magazine selections as well as longer magazine articles and book chapters. These materials provide primary sources documenting an historical movement of social…
Descriptors: Day Care, Employed Parents, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship
Walz, Garry R., Ed.; Bleuer, Jeanne, Ed. – 1984
This document contains six major presentations from the 1984 summer workshop, "The C3 Experience: Counseling, Computers, and Creative Change," sponsored by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Personnel Services. The first presentation, "Exponential Counseling: Computers as a Multiplier" by JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey, reviews…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Conferences
Johnson, Margaret H., Ed. – 1980
This National Business Education Yearbook is divided into five parts. Each part contains several chapters authored by leaders in the field of business education. Part 1, Perspectives, includes the following three chapters: Growing Need for Office Personnel; Tomorrow's Manager of Administrative Services; and Constraints Affecting the Business…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Business Education, Business Skills
Kagan, Sharon L., Ed.; Weissbourd, Bernice, Ed. – 1994
Noting that the strength of society is inextricably linked to the strength of its families, this book examines the evolution of current principles and practices in family support, and discusses future directions in quality services, training, and evaluation. The 20 chapters in this book are: (1) "America's Children and Families: An…
Descriptors: Child Health, Church Role, Community Involvement, Cultural Differences
Austin, Ann E.; And Others – 1991
This sourcebook provides substantive ideas for private liberal arts colleges interested in assessing, enhancing, and maintaining the quality of the academic workplace. Additionally, it responds to some of the current trends affecting American higher education involving faculty worklife and development, problems associated with faculty shortages,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, Colleges, Faculty Development
Smyth, John, Ed. – 1995
This collection of papers examines what academics do as a work process and how that is changing dramatically with the fiscal crises being experienced by most governments around the world. It explores how academic work is organized, how it is enacted, in whose interests, and with what ultimate effects. Papers include: "Markets in Higher…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Administration, College Faculty, College Instruction
Ilgen, Daniel R., Ed.; Pulakos, Elaine D., Ed. – 1999
This volume provides a discussion of the relationship between the changing nature of work and the understanding, measurement, and influence of human performance. Chapter 1, Employee Performance in Today's Organizations (Daniel R. Ilgen, Elaine D. Pulakos), introduces seven key changes in the nature of work--changes in technology, job design, type…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change, Employee Attitudes, Job Development
2000
Three presentations are provided from Symposium 33, Work Motivation, of the Academy of Human Resource Development (HRD) 2000 Conference Proceedings. "An Attitudinal Examination of the Role of HRD in Voluntary Turnover in Public Service Organizations" (Kenneth R. Bartlett, William R. McKinney) compares public service managers who voluntarily left…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Human Resources, Intervention, Job Performance
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