A teacher who feels secure, wanted, and recognized by the administration and the community, who is provided with adequate working conditions, including small classes and effective work space, and who is supported and encouraged to travel, study, and experiment is likely to behave in a highly professional manner and be very productive. (LRA)

Results of a survey of employees at a Midwestern newspaper company indicate that job characteristics mediate the relationships between the organization's structural context and the attitudes and behavior of individual employees. (Author/RW)

Workload, role conflict, and use of skills are related to strain among white collar supervisors. For blue collar supervisors, strain is related to workload and job security. White collar supervisors tend to be more satisfied when their time is used well. (JAC)

Discusses sexual harrassment guidelines which legally define the term as sex discrimination. While this is good for those facing harassment, it unrealistically places a socially-based problem on the shoulders of personnel managers. Points out the long-term benefits of a workplace free from harassment and intimidation. (JOW)

Describes results of a study of the work activities, priorities, and degree of satisfaction with the office environment of faculty at a California university. Implications for office design are discussed. (Author/WB)

The supervisor of today must ensure that all rewards are performance-based and that nonfinancial, social rewards are included. (Author/MLF)

Suggests that stress audits, the monitoring of the level of stress reactions in employees, will be more useful in determining an organization's health than the traditional, more financially oriented, measurement instruments. Available from Sloan Management Review, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 50…

Examines the degree to which the Growth Need Strength scales (job choice and would like formats) of the Job Diagnostic Survey correlate with, first, other measures of needs and values employed in research as moderators of the job scope-job satisfaction relationship; and, second, a measure of social desirability. (Author)

Analysis of data from the United States and Sweden indicate that the combination of low decision latitude and heavy job demands is associated with mental strain and with job dissatisfaction. (Author/IRT)

Examines the relationship between survey feedback and the organization environment to determine under what environmental conditions survey feedback was perceived by subordinates as having had an impact and if there is any systematic relationship between the degree of feedback provided to subordinates and the impact of survey feedback as perceived…

Presents results of the 16th annual survey of workplace training and development in the United States (1,559 responses from 15,000 Training magazine subscribers). Includes information on training budgets, curricula, delivery systems, and other aspects of training and development. (JOW)

The importance of discovering invisible social realities, of looking behind masks presented by everyday consumer goods (like T-shirts and soccer balls), inspired an Oregon high school teacher's efforts to teach about global sweatshops and child labor in poor countries. By examining loopholes in Nike's "code of conduct," students…

Although federal funding for workplace literacy has ended, some companies offer some remedial instruction in English as a Second Language. However, because of the cost of getting employees to a point where they are comfortable with English, many programs are being reduced. (JOW)

States that Crystal Eastman and Alice Hamilton, organizers of the Workers' Health Bureau, helped shape the early 20th-century health and safety communication field by targeting texts to professional and popular audiences which sought to prevent occupational accidents and disease by promoting voluntary efforts by employers, government regulation,…

Details the views of author William Bridges on the future of jobs, the workplace, and employee practices. Addresses key aspects of labor market change discussed by Bridges in his book: "Job Shift: How to Prosper in a Workplace without Jobs." (SNR)