Describes the development and administration of the Checklist of Health Promotion Environments at Worksites (CHEW), which measures health-promoting characteristics of the workplace environment by direct observation (physical characteristics, information environment, and immediate neighborhood). Findings illustrate the type of data on environmental…

In a participative psycho-biographical study, interviews with 16 individuals investigated the effect of spirituality on career behavior. Spirituality influenced career purpose, sense-making, and career coherence. It inspired four purposes: developing/becoming self, unity with others, expressing self, and serving others. (Contains 55 references.)…

A survey of 10,000 training managers (3% response) sought to learn what goals are being established for leadership training and how people understand leadership. Companies that emphasized leadership development outperformed others; 81% felt that leadership was harder to accomplish today. (JOW)

Interviews with 70 successful people with learning disabilities resulted in a model for successful employment. Elements include control, internal decision, adaptability, goal orientation, reframing, persistence, goodness of fit, learned creativity, proactivity, and social ecologies. (JOW)

Explores and clarifies the conditions for learning and reflection at work under strong time pressure with an ever-increasing demand for efficiency. Identifies conditions favorable to both development and production: learning potential of tasks, problem solving, individual motivation, and knowledge and time as learning resources. (Contains 42…

Examines workplace spirituality in an historical context and compares it to religious beliefs and to established ethical theories and moral principles. Suggests how managers and administrators in both the public and private sectors can use workplace spirituality to increase performance and develop ethical organizations. (Contains 54 references.)…

If continuing professional education is to make a difference and meet challenges, ethics and its place in professional life must be moved to the forefront. Educators should continually renew the ethics discourse, drawing on the resources of adult education. (JOW)

Defines the term rumor/grapevine; discusses reasons for grapevine; and explores the accuracy of grapevine, type of grapevine, how grapevine is spread, role of participants, and managing the grapevine. Indicates that those who understand its power will be able to use it to provide the stability and credibility in the work environment to achieve…

The Team Evaluation and Management System model for identifying creative behaviors displayed in performing a job, an example of the in-situ approach to creativity measurement, is described and illustrated. (MSE)

In the literature on industrial sociology and psychology, workgroups are discussed in terms of informal relations that unite cohesive groups. In job redesign they tend to be overlooked, possibly because there is a minimum of formal design in natural work settings or because informal relations at work are often viewed within a conflict framework.…

Denying the considerable differences between men and women only emphasizes them. Men and women tend naturally to have dissimilar goals, priorities, values, and communication styles. Those differences, unaddressed, forecast failure for both sexes in establishing effective roles in business and family life. (JOW)

It is essential that business educators recognize the importance of information management and gear efforts toward training individuals for the realities of the modern office environment. (JOW)

Looks at highly successful, noncorporate teams--U.S. Navy SEALs; the Dallas Cowboys; the Tokyo String Quartet; the University of North Carolina women's soccer team; the Massachusetts General Hospital emergency-trauma team; Boots and Coots, hellfighters; and the Childress NASCAR racing team--and discusses the secrets of their success. (JOW)

An examination of the relationship among nine measures of Holland's concept of congruence and their relationship to job stress used data from 154 workers. Iachan's M index was the best predictor of stress and strain. The relationship between congruence and stress was significant but dependent on the congruence measure used. (SK)

According to responses from 101 of 200 employees of small (less than 250) Georgia businesses, nearly one-third had experienced some form of negative office politics despite the small company size and perception of a congenial atmosphere. However, most were highly satisfied with their jobs. (SK)