Over the past decade, practitioners and scholars have struggled to explain women's career choices. The current language, including "opting out," "on and off ramping," and "mommy track," is not only inadequate but assumes a deviation from an accepted norm. We challenge the relevance of the paradigm against which women are being judged, namely, the…

This monograph presents 14 articles on the topics of the nature and extent of drug use by the workforce; drug use and job performance indicators; and drug free workplace program research. These articles are included: (1) Research on Drugs and the Workplace: Introduction and Summary (Steven Gust, Dennis Crouch, J. Michael Walsh); (2) Drug Use…

This document was written for anyone concerned about substance abuse in the workplace. It offers helpful advice to top management, supervisors, employee representatives, and workers. The first section discusses whether drugs in the workplace are a problem, the next section explains how to tell if employees have problems with drugs, and the third…

Examines language in a factory. Results include the following: (1) within a building, different terms for the same thing may be found; (2) the major boundary is spatial, between types of work; and (3) operational links, proximity and mobility between departments are major determinants of agreement and difference in usage. (Author/RM)

Intended for use by employers for assessing how "job-ready" their particular business environment may be, the booklet provides information illustrating what physical changes could be made to allow persons with mobility limitations to enter and conduct business independently in a particular building. Illustrations along with brief explanations are…

Sources of stress and hypertension are examined from the perspective of the professional educator and educational administrator. Physiological and psychological causes and effects of stressful lifestyles are explored, and suggestions are given for methods to deal with unhealthy amounts of stress. (LH)

This paper presents and discusses a portion of empirical data collected from a large sample of British factory workers and relates these workers' perception of the discretion available to them to their work satisfaction. Perceived discretion is measured for two sectors of work experience: first, discretion surrounding actual job performance; and…

The keys to success in a one-person library are effective self-management and good communications between the librarian, his clientele, and management. Lack of pressure and direct appreciation for the librarian's professional efforts are described as the primary rewards of working in a one-person library. (Author)

The analysis shows that the strength of the relationships between job satisfaction and each of the task dimensions of skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and feedback-from-job depends on both the job longevity and organizational longevity of the sampled individuals. (Author/IRT)

Values, are conceptualized in context of work adjustment as reference dimensions for the description of needs. Factor analyses of Minnesota Importance Questionnaire data are presented. Safety, Comfort, Aggrandizement, Altruism, Achievement, and Autonomy are identified. These value dimensions are organized in terms of reinforcement preferences and…

A teacher describes the four-year bureaucratic maze she went through to rectify a problem with the lack of proper toilet paper dispensers in the women teachers' bathroom of a brand new school. (MD)

Analysis of data from the 1977 Quality of Employment Survey shows that, on average, men and women hold jobs with substantially different working conditions and that these differences contribute significantly to the explanation of differences in average earnings between men and women. (Author/SK)

Reviews six work environment assessment approaches: ecological dimensions, behavior settings, dimensions of organizational structure, collective characteristics of people within an environment, functional or reinforcement properties, and psychosocial and social climate dimensions. Discusses implications for using these approaches in career…