The article addresses teacher retention challenges employers are experiencing in the quest to effectively meet standard human resource management practices. The quality of the employer-employee relationship forms the foundation upon which effective management practices thrive. Teachers who remain in education value students and their personal…

Prior to the 1960s, college and university faculty were treated as at-will employees, despite the establishment of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in 1915 and the circulation after 1940 of its statement on academic freedom. Through the McCarthy period of the 1950s, faculty were not free either on or off campus to speak to…

Libraries willing to deal formally with employee suggestions are faced with several options. This paper examines these options and discusses in detail the pros and cons of formal suggestion systems. While they seem like the most realistic way of dealing with the problem, they have great potential disadvantages. (Author)

Outlines the response an employee may have to his termination, the actions a personnel professional can take to help the employee, and the reasons such counseling programs can be beneficial for both the employee and the organization. (IRT)

Applying the language of exchange theory, this paper analyses how organizational culture emerges out of the institutional arrangements developed to regulate the transactions between members. Transaction costs of social exchange, the characteristics and etiology of those institutional arrangements, and three ideal-typical cultural forms are…

Describes the likely direction of new collective bargaining relationships and the implications for the roles of negotiators and third parties who will be involved with these changes. (Author/IRT)

Over the past decade, unions have had little overall success crossing over into the ranks of white-collar employees. Some individual employers are still at risk. (Author)

Discusses the importance of feedback in service occupations and looks at Thomas J. Connellan's six principles on the use of feedback, reward, and recognition. (JOW)

When the learning organization is used for purposes not originally intended, it can create a culture of fear, in which constant change has a negative impact and employee knowledge is inappropriately exploited. The learning organization is not a destination but a vision of organizations and individuals using learning to build long-term capacity for…

Compares the William H. Whyte's Organization Man of 1956 with today's employees. Finds that today there are no implicit contracts, no common lot, no loyalty, and no harmony of interests. (JOW)

The National Commission on Adult Literacy proposes creating a new Adult Education and Workforce Skills System with the capacity to effectively serve 20 million adults annually by the year 2020. The primary mission of this new System will be to move out-of-school adults to readiness for postsecondary education and job training and enable their…

There has been a gradual increase at U.S. universities and colleges in the appointment of women to full time faculty positions with women currently comprising approximately 40% of full time faculty. When status, job security, and institutional affiliation are taken into account, the percentage drops significantly: Women occupy only 24% of tenured…

Purpose: To estimate the impact of nursing home work practices, specifically compensation and working conditions, on job satisfaction of nursing assistants employed in nursing homes. Design and Methods: Data are from the 2004 National Nursing Assistant Survey, responses by the nursing assistants' employers to the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey,…

One way to define culture is "the way a group of people prefer to behave." The trick for organizational leaders is to find ways to ensure that the company culture, that is the way their people prefer to behave, is supportive of what is needed to successfully deliver the company strategy. Using a criteron-referenced approach, we can first examine…

In this essay, the author explains how teaching assistant (TA) unions work to the benefit not only of the graduate students who are their members but also of the writing programs that employ them. While university administrations understand unions to be bothersome at best and forces of evil at their worst, unions are essential to the maintenance…