This issue discusses the problems that frequently accompany involuntary job loss. The types of problems experienced by dislocated workers are discussed under these categories: emotional, family, financial, physical health, job skill obsolescence, and lack of basic academic skills. The report also presents approaches that were taken by four…

Technical and professional persons are especially threatened by the potentiality of becoming outdated in their skills and their knowledge. It is not enough for workers in these fields to maintain the competence acquired in the years of formal education. Their information bank is anything but static; the norm is perpetual change. Psychologists,…

Technological change is a complex term involving many more factors than "changes in machinery or automation." Six changes which affect jobs and influence skills in our industrial systems that could logically be called technological change have been identified: (1) scientific management, or time and motion studies, (2) mergers and consolidations,…

The papers compiled here were presented at a conference held for professionals from many fields to enable them to explore issues regarding mandatory continuing education. The papers are presented in six sections. The first is the introduction, while the keynote address, "Change, the Professions, and Continuing Education," comprises section 2.…

This document reports a survey of employers in the Stamford Labor Market Area (Connecticut) that was undertaken during the fall of 1978. Chapter 1 outlines the survey, its findings, and these four objectives: (1) identify nature and extent of jobs and skills mismatch problems, (2) identify nature and extent of career-stagnation problems among…

Reported is the development of a set of behavior anchored scales (BAS) for evaluating the job performance and technical updating activities of engineers. A total of 327 engineers and technical supervisors participated in the various phases of this project. Separate groups: (1) identified 11 factors related to job performance and technical…

The purpose of the study was to explore the possibility of developing a comprehensive conceptual framework for measuring the costs and benefits of foreign trade to American workers. Foreign trade was conceived of primarily as a number of parts of the dynamic world production-distribution-consumption process rather than as an aggregate exchange of…

Despite current questions about the rate of return on educational investments, there is still a positive correlation between years of schooling and income, as well as job satisfaction. The real problem is not study and work; rather attention should be directed to the problem of nonstudy and work. (Author/AF)

This report addresses the degree to which retraining has met the challenge of ensuring that the American work force has adequate skills to cope with the changing world of work. Chapter 1 sketches economic, social, and technological changes that help explain why the current reactive approach needs to be more active. In chapter 2, the extensiveness…

This bulletin appraises some of the major technological changes emerging among American industries, and it projects the impact of these changes over the next 5 to 10 years on patterns of employment, occupations, and issues requiring labor-management adjustment. The bulletin extends and updates the report, "Technological Trends in 36 Major American…

Each group in our population will be affected by automation and other forms of technological advancement. This book seeks to identify the needs of these various groups, and to present ways in which educators can best meet them. The author corrects certain prevalent misconceptions concerning manpower utilization and automation. Based on the…

This book defines career barriers, considers how people react to them, and offers ways to overcome and prevent them. It is geared towards people experiencing career barriers; for students at the start of their careers; for seasoned employees wanting to avoid or be prepared to deal with career barriers; and for managers, human resource…

From February through March 1987, a questionnaire entitled "A Survey of Business and Industrial Personnel Educational Needs" was administered to factory workers. Data were collected from 475 blue-collar employees at four leading manufacturing plants in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Survey results indicated that nontraditional students may not be…

The National Commission for Employment Policy estimates that 19 million workers--17 percent of the work force--are in jobs directly threatened by office automation, and the consequences of the displacement of clerical workers due to increasing office computerization are as serious as those from manufacturing job loss. Between 1983 and 1988, almost…

In 1987, a study was conducted within the Iowa Valley Community College District (IVCCD) to identify the responsibilities of secretaries at the time of the study and to project what their responsibilities would be in 10 years. The supervisor and the secretary at 864 businesses in the IVCCD were surveyed to determine their perceptions of the…