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Download full textCEDEFOP Flash, 1989
This publication of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) describes a project investigating employment and training in Greece, Spain, and Portugal. An introduction tells why CEDEFOP has given priority to those countries. The second section reports the project's examination of the textiles and ready-to-wear…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Policy, Fashion Industry, Foreign Countries
Stasz, Cathleen – 1986
A first step toward thinking about job design issues involves consideration of three questions. They are (1) what kinds of changes occur when electronic tools are adopted in the workplace?, (2) whose jobs change and how?, and (3) who plays a role in job design? Answers can be drawn from data and observations from two Rand Corporation studies…
Descriptors: Business, Clerical Occupations, Clerical Workers, Computer Oriented Programs
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1987
An Enterprise Zone Working Group brought together enterprise zone directors, Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program administrators, and private industry council representatives from the state and local levels. It discussed ways in which employment and training programs could better coordinate with development activities in enterprise zones.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Economic Development
Thurow, Lester; Waldstein, Louise – 1989
This document contains two essays: "Toward a High-Wage, High-Productivity Service Sector" by Lester Thurow; and "Service Sector Wages, Productivity and Job Creation in the U.S. and Other Countries" by Louise Waldstein. The first essay analyzes the recent and currrent U.S. economy under headings called Growth Nodes, Falling…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Economic Climate, Economics, Employment Patterns
Moore, Leo J. – Manpower, 1974
Pheonix's Public Employment Program (PEP) helps workers qualify for permanent jobs. (MW)
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Employment Qualifications, Functional Reading, Job Development
Danziger, Sheldon; And Others – 1977
The administration recently announced a broad overhaul of the welfare system called the program for better jobs and income. This proposed plan would consolidate three major components of the current welfare system and provide, for the first time, a nationwide minimum federal cash payment for all the poor. In this paper the existing welfare system…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Government, Government Role, Income
Duttweiler, Robert W. – 1982
Taking the view that job sharing is a positive alternative for workers and employers, this article defines job sharing in broad terms and describes its evolution from the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to the present. The advantages, such as increased productivity, are felt to be impressive, but disadvantages also exist, including significant…
Descriptors: Costs, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Flexible Working Hours
Tuttle, Francis T.; Wall, James E. – 1979
This publication describes some of the basic features of state industry services programs, particularly those related to job training. It seeks to answer the following questions: How does an industry services program differ from more traditional vocational education programs? What types of training are provided? Who benefits? How are the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Industrial Training, Job Development, Job Placement
Best, Fred – 1981
This monograph reviews the history and current relevance of work sharing and assesses the issues, policy options, job creation potential, and likely social and economic impacts related to the concept. Chapter 1 overviews work sharing in the past and work sharing as an alternative to the problem of unemployment in the future. Chapter 2 reviews…
Descriptors: Adults, Economic Factors, Employment Opportunities, Employment Practices
PDF pending restorationKnowdell, Richard L. – 1978
In 1975, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory implemented a Career/Life Planning Program for all employees. The program's aims are to assist employees in taking responsibility for their own careers, revive their creativity, and stimulate active career planning. The program is staffed by counselors with a combination of psychological and technical…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Development, Employee Attitudes, Industrial Personnel
Eckstein, Otto – 1968
An examination of the Negro unemployment problem, an explanation of an ultimate Negro objective of economic equality, and an overview of their present status is given. Within all occupational categories Negroes, on the average, have worse jobs at lower rates of pay. This is revealed even in broad occupational categories such as professional, white…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Blacks, Education, Employment
Bass, Bernard M.; Barrett, Gerald V. – 1974
The basic parameters of intrinsic motivation to work are explored. Principles are sought relevant to ways of redesigning jobs to increase their intrinsic motivation properties and to avoid task overload and boredom. Coordinated field and experimental laboratory studies are described. (Author)
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Job Development, Job Satisfaction, Motivation
Willner, Peter T.; Torres, Scottie – 1975
With the establishment of the Bureau of Institutional Schools (BIS) within the Division of Special Education, educational specialists have been appointed to represent the bureau in each of the division's six regional offices. The primary role of the BIS representative is one of assistance in the development of educational programs for children…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Personnel, Institutional Schools, Job Development
Bowen, William G., Ed.; Harbison, Frederick H., Ed. – 1965
The papers in this volume deal with the causes, cures, and magnitude of unemployment. Musgrave, Killingsworth, and Okun discuss the opposing structuralist and deficient demand theories of unemployment. Garth Mangum, Curtis Allen, William Caples and Alice Rivlin offer their experience concerning the role of government and industry in curing…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Black Employment, Disadvantaged, Federal Programs
McClure, Joseph H. – 1970
Prepared under authority of the Economic Opportunity Act, this paper gives guidelines on developing jobs and new careers for the disadvantaged within Federal, state, and local government merit systems. Typical personnel structures are described, followed by elements of merit evaluation and selection, staffing and classification, characteristics of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Employment Qualifications, Employment Services
