Assessed environmental and personality factors that correlate with high versus low scholarly productivity, utilizing the Scholarly Productivity Survey and Holland's Vocational Preference Inventory. Findings indicated clear patterns of differences between high and low producers. Subjects with different personality types endorsed research attitudes…

The work setting offers the health educator a unique opportunity for research. This article discusses advantages and disadvantages associated with health education research in the workplace and suggests ways the research efforts in this setting can be optimized. (DF)

This interview with the General Secretary of the International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional, and Technical Employees ranges over the problems created for these workers by micro-technology. (SK)

This study tests a standard model of the production process and an augmented model that incorporates a linkage from worker attitudes to total factor productivity and the total unit cost of production. The authors estimate these models with data on the U.S. automobile industry for the years 1959-76. (Author/CT)

Personnel administrators should insist on a well-managed exit interview process to monitor departmental turnover and to acquire feedback about the working environment. Some procedures to develop an effective process are discussed. (MLW)

A comparative study of Australian industrial workers in four factories examined whether the immediate work context or social context explains the variation in orientations toward work. The analysis reveals remarkable similarities despite differences in employer, technology, and organizational structure, and in the demographic and labor force…

Presents findings on the work attitudes of faculty members at two predominantly Black colleges. Like their colleagues elsewhere, the respondents feel strong degrees of career satisfaction, especially from such job factors as student growth, personal growth, schedule flexibility, and professional autonomy. Other factors, including some working…

Potential sources of stress and satisfaction perceived by 83 direct-care staff members in community residences for mentally retarded adults were investigated. Results indicated that stress and satisfaction are not polar opposites but two largely separate dimensions of workers' experiences. Sources of satisfaction and stress had two components,…

Looks at some of the realities of life with robots: robots aren't replacing entire shifts of workers; a robot is just a tool; regular plant personnel maintain robots; and job category and seniority dictate who is trained to maintain robots. (CT)

Business educators preparing students for jobs in business and industry should become aware of the problems faced by workers in a typical large office environment. Word processor operators face many of the same problems as factory assembly line workers--lack of personalization, lack of incentive, and removal from the mainstream. (JOW)

This paper reports the findings of a study of 3193 British industrial workers which suggest that, when individually measured and analyzed, task attributes relate in different ways and in varying degrees to worker dissatisfaction. Validity may depend upon how job specialization is measured. (Author)

Describes the development of a standardized approach for identifying, defining, and measuring indicators of work performance and effectiveness and of the methods for expressing these indicators in financial terms. (Author/IRT)

Data indicate that administrators are highly motivated by achievement, recognition, and advancement, but not very much by salary, good interpersonal relations, effective policy and administration, and supervision, although the absence of the latter group is highly dissatisfying. (Author/IRT)

Human resources development must be oriented toward the achievement of all objectives of organizational performance: Quality, efficiency, societal impact, employee impact. Three fundamental phases in developing a work design strategy (for improving organizational effectiveness) are explained. (BM)

Cumulative trauma disorder (CTD) refers to a collection of disorders associated with nerves, muscles, tendons, bones, and the neurovascular (nerves and related blood vessels) system. CTD symptoms may involve the neck, back, shoulders, arms, wrists, or hands. Interpreters with CTD may experience a variety of symptoms including: pain, joint…