Describes and evaluates a training program entitled PASSAGES which addresses the need for employee career planning. Implications of the program for business and industry are discussed. (RC)

Advice is presented for managers who encounter sexual harassment problems. Three recommendations are offered: complainants can be helped to help themselves, such conflicts can be resolved through procedures designed to deal with all kinds of complaints, and the issue of power differences should be confronted. (MLW)

California's 1978 Higher Education Employer Employee Relations Act empowers but regulates college and university faculty in selecting a representative and engaging in collective bargaining. The content and implications of the law are examined, with focus on administrative problems. Available from Hastings Law Journal, 198 McAllister St., San…

The current IRS tax treatment of fringe benefits is seen as inadequate, and the judicial precept confusing, because groups of employee benefits are inappropriately excluded from taxation as perquisites. A tax equalization approach is proposed. Available from Suffolk University Law Review Office, 41 Temple St., Boston, MA 02114. (MSE)

A 1977 survey of reporters represented by The Newspaper Guild and publishers holding contracts with the Guild suggested that publishers are less concerned than their employees with ensuring privilege protection and that they are reluctant to incorporate privilege in contracts. (GT)

The PACE Employment Program brings together potential employers and employees in the Cook County Jail (Chicago). Inmate-students and employers participate in a variety of exercises related to the development and strengthening of personal and interpersonal skills. (Author/BEF)

It is contended in this article that many typical problems can be avoided in a human service organization which implements the use of computers in its work. (Author/DB)

Presents guidelines for employees and employers in the science and engineering fields relative to recruitment, terms of employment, professional development, and termination and transfer. (GS)

Presented is a sample of opinions gathered in a phone survey of cooperative education employers. Questions included: What do cooperative education employers think about vocational education? Is it good for business to have high school students working alongside full-time employees? What kind of jobs are co-op students hired to do? (CT)

The second of a two-part article about the procedures necessary for school administrators to participate effectively in school district negotiations. (Author/MLF)

The most traumatic managerial changes that will take place in the decade ahead will be in management concepts and styles. To be a manager will require a person to be a trained professional in the most up-to-date human processes as well as in the traditional management functions. (LRA)

This instrument was developed to measure a teacher's propensity for militant behavior. Its conceptual framework reflects current developments in public education labor-management relations. It was tested for reliability and validity. The experimental index was validated by using a multitrait-multimethod validation matrix. A reliability coefficient…

Thirty-two legislative issues that public institutions should address while devising their legislative programs or reviewing a proposed public employees' collective bargaining bill are presented. The article concludes with a brief discussion of administrative rule-making and other alternatives to legislative treatment of these issues. (LBH)

Although only six percent of the schools offering park and recreation curricula currently have collective bargaining, this percentage is likely to increase in the near future. (JD)

Focuses on the relationship of accountability to the educator's ability to conduct inquiry into personal professional roles and to provide assistance to professional peers who are conducting similar inquiries. A positive intervention model is developed by emphasizing the educational experience of the practitioner. (Editor/RK)