Summarizes a Bureau of Labor Statistics paper on what is and is not known about the extent and cost of training in the United States. Includes information on studies of the effects of training and discusses the need for a broad-based survey of employer-provided training. (JOW)

The new direction in employee participation, workplace technology, and labor force characteristics may be reviving practices that failed to flourish in the past. Theoretical and historical perspectives provide a context for the effective use of high performance workplace practices. (JOW)

Nonwage characteristics of jobs play a role in employment decisions. Workers often trade wages for job security, status, and other job attributes. (JOW)

This article examines some of the indicators that have been used to assess job commitment: statistical series on absence from work; quits; working part time by choice (phenomena generally associated with weak commitment); and multiple job-holding and overtime (often associated with strong commitment). (SSH)

Nonprofit jobs provide more challenge, variety, satisfaction, and intrinsic rewards than those in private enterprise or government, according to a small national sample of workers in schools, hospitals, philanthropic, and other tax-exempt organizations. (Author/SSH)