The opening question in this document is: Have you ever been confronted with sex discrimination? If you can answer yes to any of 42 more specific questions on discriminatory acts, you have a bona fide complaint. From this point the document serves as a guide on what evidence is needed in a complaint, where the complaint is to be filed, and sources…

This guide is to help the employer design and implement programs to ensure fair and equal treatment for all persons, regardless of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, in all employment practices. Certain basic elements of most employment systems repeatedly have proved to result in discrimination, and certain basic steps have been found…

This booklet describes how managers and administrators can become more humane in their management activities. The publication lists 14 characteristics of humane management and stresses the importance of (1) employer trust of employees, (2) involvement of employees in decisionmaking, and (3) communication between the employer and the employees.…

This study (1) ascertains the incidence of collective bargaining activity involving faculty and supportive professional personnel, (2) determines the nature of the issues being negotiated, (3) extrapolates models of bargaining, and (4) analyzes and interprets relationships suggested by incidence, issues and models. Following an introductory…

This study on job enrichment was undertaken because the participation of workers in the management of their employment is a matter of rising interest in several countries of various political, economic, and social states, some of which have only recently entered upon industrialization. The study contains four parts. Part I, Theoretical background,…

This paper provides a brief overview of collective bargaining in public education in Indiana in 1975, the second year that school boards and teachers operated under a collective bargaining law. The authors analyze major factors and apparent trends related to bargaining and impasse issues, mediation and fact-finding practices, teacher strikes, and…

The program, described in detail, consists of career assessment and personal planning experiences for management facilitators and employee planners. Also discussed are the results of a generally successful pilot test of the program. (Author/MS)

Components of an effective human resource management function are identified and the position a personnel administrator must hold in the organizational structure in order to provide these services is discussed. Functions include personnel selection, institutional research and human resource planning, human resource development, and labor…

The current status or viability of the various state action arguments are reviewed, judicial responses to them are discussed in the context of employee discharge cases, and the reformulation of those responses is presented. (LBH)

The paper reports the validation of a test simulating supervisory situations as part of the final exam for an allied health supervision course. Statistical analysis indicated that the experimental group was much more likely to produce empathic responses than the control group in a similar test situation. (MF)

The existence, relatedness, and growth (ERG) model represents a major effort to understand need satisfaction. Questionnaire items on existing and proposed need concepts were administered to 630 Navy male enlisted personnel in 11 types of organizations. Factor analysis confirmed the empirical validity of the organizational respect concept. (Author)

Armed with an awareness of why employees leave, administrators can work to reduce employee turnover. Some suggestions for conducting exit interviews are provided. (Author/MLF)

Discussed is how education can be reorganized to respond to the needs of the individual over the life cycle unconstrained by the traditional compartimentalization of educational levels and structures. (MP)

The quality of worklife concept means to create organizational environments in which labor and management cooperatively work together. In the United States, the moving force behind most quality of worklife experiments is the American Center for the Quality of Worklife. Discusses the successes and failures of some of these experiments. (EM)

First discusses three major controversies regarding paid educational leave (PEL), then reviews the major findings of two studies involving ten countries where PEL has been implemented. Finally, future problems and issues are covered, particularly PEL in relation to industrial democratization as well as a new mixture of work and non-work time. (EM)