Staff environments should foster individual, group, and organizational effectiveness. The article describes the development and implementation of a staff environment design process focusing on understanding and utilizing individual differences, assessing staff preferences for certain environmental characteristics, increasing staff-environment…

Biographical sketch of John L. Lewis, with emphasis on his rise and performance as a great labor leader and organizer of the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO). (SH)

A theoretical formulation is proposed that incorporates a concept of stress intended to permit analysis of group moves and individual mechanisms to resolve stress. Two extant theoretical formulations of work group behavior that includes a concept of stress related to group processes are reviewed. (Author/MLF)

The author reviews the relative importance of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and argues that the average adult does not listen efficiently. He presents the AIM (Attention, Interest, Motivation) Technique for improving listening skills. (CH)

Examined antecedents of spousal support of husbands' work commitment from perspective of wives. Found spousal support influenced directly only by satisfaction with quality of life made possible by local work organization and length of involvement with organization. Marital and social adjustment, and perceptions of husband's work environment…

Discusses the importance of incorporating technical and human relation skills to be a successful and productive media specialist, and offers guidelines for developing communication skills and self-esteem. (CLB)

Employed adults were studied with respect to their report of occupational stresses, strains, and coping behaviors using the Occupational Environment Scales. Older repondents reported more overload and responsibility and fewer stresses than did younger respondents. Older respondents also displayed decreasing strain and greater coping resources than…

Describes the economic incentives to employees and employers for providing occupational social services. Suggests that growth in such services will coincide with growth in high-technology industries and service industries employing highly skilled workers. (BL)

Employees of 15 organizations (N=8,600) completed questionnaires concerning whistle-blowing. Discriminant analysis revealed that organization members who had observed alleged wrongdoing were more likely to blow the whistle if they had convincing evidence of wrongdoing, if the wrongdoing were serious, and if it directly affected them. (Author/BL)

Examined formal sexual harassment charges (N=81) to identify the characteristics of individuals who file formal sexual harassment charges and describes the behaviors and employment-related consequences associated with such charges. Sex, age, marital status, educational level, occupation, and salary distributions of complainants differed…

A study was conducted to determine if a structured support group with a counseling format could prevent or reduce the burnout of professional nurses in an acute care institution. Results of the study were inconclusive, leading the author to call for more research on the subject of burnout in nurses. (CT)

A worker-to-job congruence model of a classic motivation theory was tested using 401 registered nurses as the sample, with weights applied to intrinsic and extrinsic workplace factors reflecting the importance they held for individual respondents. When importance increases, intrinsic factors have a greater effect on job satisfaction. (CT)

Discusses institutional regularities of elementary and secondary schools, the nature of teaching, and the teacher as semi-professional in regard to two basic kinds of master teacher plans: one suggesting that master teachers are "better than" and another suggesting that they do "more than" their peers. (RH)

Studied the effect of changes in the work environment using the Work Environment Scale as pre- and post-test with full-time (N=17) and part-time (N=25) youth workers. Burnout in full-time workers was low and supervisor support was high. Part-time workers evidenced unrealistic expectations of the work environment. (MCF)

Shows how to design workshop activities that can increase the likelihood that learning outcomes will be transferred to the participant's work environment. (JOW)