This article is designed to enhance understanding about how job characteristics motivate physical education teachers. This is an important area of research because Ministry of Education Malaysia invest so much time and money into the creation and development of their physical education teachers and it is important to understand how the work they…

Compares and contrasts data from around 1909, when F. Parsons's "Choosing a Vocation" was published, with contemporary data on the workplace and the American worker. Suggests that having information about occupations is still an essential component of career counseling and presents ideas for updating knowledge about the increasingly complex world…

This report summarizes the outcomes of a National Task Force on Educational Interpreting that was established to examine and clarify roles and responsibilities, training and certification, working conditions, and other issues and needs concerning the involvement of educational interpreters in regular education environments. The task force found:…

Examines; (1) the natural resource professions; (2) concepts of vocational choice; (3) possible barriers to the entry of minorities; (4) the need for racial minorities; (5) possible perceptual-stereotyping problems; and (6) career decision making. (RC)

This document is a summary of aerospace industry technician statistics gathered by the Occupational Employment Statistics Survey for the year 2000 by the Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data includes the following: (1) a comparison of wages earned by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certified and non-FAA certified…

Changing occupational profiles in the hotel industry in France, Italy, and Spain were examined in case studies that included interviews with hotel managers, human resource managers, and individuals employed in hotel occupations identified as new or entailing new skills. The study focused on the following topics: (1) changes in the hotel industry…