Museum education leaders often find themselves thrust into greater responsibility without an opportunity to prepare themselves for the challenges ahead. In this article, I discuss my own struggles transitioning from manager of a specific program area to oversight of an entire education department. This transition happened unexpectedly, and the…

In this article, the authors provide a description of the academic climate in New Mexico. Like many other places in the world today, New Mexico is trying to find an identity in an environment that the authors label "increasingly privatized, corporatized, and militarized." New Mexico's higher education salaries are lower than those in…

The politics of dual-career academic couples, and the policies directed toward them, have been dissected and debated at length. Rarely mentioned, however, is how an academic career can be affected by a husband, wife, or significant other who is not on the professorial track. Most pairings of professor and nonprofessor work just fine. The partners…

This article discusses the disconnect between industrial-organizational (I-O) and vocational psychology in the context of Donald Paterson's career, an applied psychologist who bridged both disciplines. Paterson's interests in "both" vocational guidance and personnel selection suggest that these fields are interwoven, despite the prevailing gap…

Back in the 1970s, when the author was an art professor at California State University at Northridge, he had a colleague who absolutely would not say anything about anybody that he would not say to that person's face. Marvin Harden, the African-American artist, originally came to Los Angeles in the late 1950s from segregated Austin, Texas, to play…

Much has been written about the glass ceiling and pay differentials in higher and further education (HE, FE) for women academics (McTavish and Miller 2009, Rees 2007) but very little about discrepancies for women "professional managers" within UK higher education. Professional managers as a term needs to be defined as universities call…

Briefly reviews personal and professional history, acknowledging important influences along the way. Presentation on love and work examines both contemporary observations and Freud's view of love and work. Describes own view as similar to that proposed by Fromm. Concludes that counselors might try exploring value of love in workplace as way to…

By following the emerging early education policies in state governments across the United States, as well as tracking the direction of ECE professional organizations, one gets the impression that quality improvement is assured by an ever-expanding set of requirements and expectations placed on teachers. However, most of the folks who are…

Presents environmental, safety, and security factors involved in the use of microcomputers. (SK)

Discusses women's participation in trade unions and specific policies in Canada, United Kingdom, USSR, India, United States, and New Zealand. (JOW)

Argues that changes in the structure of occupational life over the last half century have outmoded the classical agenda of questions about occupations and the division of labor. Proposes new questions about this new occupational structure. (JOW)

Considers signs and symptoms that hospital-based social work may be in jeopardy. Presents arguments justifying social work in hospital settings, then considers shift to nonprofessional staffing, generalists versus specialists, decentralization, funding bases, and valuing the contribution of social work. (NB)

Much has been written about how space and time are integral to understanding social relations, in particular about associations between space and understanding learning in workplaces. Drawing from a research study exploring everyday learning at work, this paper looks beyond what is generally understood as work situations by turning to those spaces…

Describes the problem of national productivity decline; examines the organizational concepts of productivity, effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of working life; describes the process of managing and improving organizational productivity and psychologists' roles in that process; and contrasts different occupational views on productivity.…

Working with difficult people is a built-in business hazard, but it is a part of human nature. Four sources make recommendations for dealing with them. (JOW)