To be successful at home and at work, one must use support systems and assertive behavior; know oneself; use appropriate communication techniques, behavior, and appearance; and have a flexible and healthy attitude about changing oneself. (JOW)

The growth of employee recreation has been steady over the past several decades. Several employee service programs are described, and methods of implementation, activities offered, and results are discussed. (DF)

Education specialists from Latin America met in Lima (1) to determine workers' educational needs arising from management participation and (2) to identify the programs and methods which would fulfill those needs. Both concerns are the topics of the discussion. (BP)

This ethnography reports on how power flowed along communication channels and how communication was the means through which power was exercised and developed when the author was a participant-as-observer in a 10-week Spanish language class offered by a major manufacturing company to its line supervisors. The paper focuses on whether or not class…

Many parents who choose to hire someone to provide child care in their home find that locating the right person to provide reliable and loving care can be difficult and that understanding their tax responsibilities is a major challenge. This booklet, directed to parents, details guidelines for selecting an in-home child caregiver and for meeting…

As the climate of negotiations is essential to the form an agreement will take, so are its implementation procedures vital to how it will be administered and how effective it will prove to be. (Author)

Teacher loyalty to an immediate superior is examined with respect to authoritarianism, hierarchical influence, emotional detachment, and hierarchical independence of the principal. (Author/KM)

Some related mathematical models are presented of the bargaining process between an employer, or a group of employers, and a labor union. Its novelty is in the formulation and use of "reactive functions" to explain the attitudes of the respective parties at each stage of the negotiation process and its consequent time-path. (Author)

Chronicles the present growth of unionization and its conflicts and conjectures on its future directions. (Editor)

Author views collective bargaining as a conciliatory mechanism, not a disruptive one. (Ed.)

Author describes the necessary ingredients for collective bargaining manpower attitudes, and proper policies-and defines responsibilities for each stage of negotiations. (Ed./HS)

Adapted from a report of a special task force to the U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; analysis of work attitudes among those under 30, and a warning to management. (SP)

Describes the Employee/Corporate Human Objectives" model, with suggestions for dealing with now generation" workers. (Editor/SP)

Procedures for dealing with resignation, retirement, death (dismissal, and layoff of library employees are presented. (7 references) (KE)