The main purpose of the handbook is to provide occupational information that broadens the knowledge of choices available to young people and helps them make intelligent career plans. It is also a useful resource for persons entering or reentering the work force at different stages of their lives. For hundreds of occupations the handbook answers…

The paper seeks to emphasize certain important dimensions of the economics of worker alienation which have been underemphasized, if not overlooked. Most satisfying jobs are not available without cost to someone. Workers often face a choice between job satisfaction and pecuniary rewards. With this context in mind., the author discusses several…

Trade unions and collective bargaining can shape the compensation and opportunities for advancement of workers. The economic outcome at the work place of union activity affects compensation levels, lifetime economic advancement, and the structure of employment. The success or failure of trade unions often depend on the manipulation of economic…

An instructor's guide for the presentation of an adult secretarial/business education course is presented. It is divided into 10 lessons. The first four lessons cover the factors in people and groups which are fundamental to an understanding of environmental (or human) relationships in business. The rest of the lessons take up specific aspects of…

Job satisfaction is the feeling an employee has about his pay, his work, his promotion opportunities, his coworkers, and his supervisor. The model for conducting job satisfaction research suggested in this study gives specific attention to: (1) how job satisfaction can be measured; (2) the major pitfalls likely to be encountered by those who…

Organizational effectiveness is composed of two concepts: (1) job satisfactions and (2) employee performance. In this paper the concept of job satisfactions is delimited to include five principal areas, viz., work, pay, promotion, people, and supervision. Employee performance is the reciprocal concept. This paper is directed toward the job…

Aspects of part-time teaching addressed in this report, based on a survey of college faculty, include: the "flexibility seeker," the "work seeker," disadvantages of part-time employment, a taxonomy of part time, personal characteristics of part-timers, the part-timer's workplace, and the work history of part-timers. (LBH)

Noise is the single most omnipresent noxious contaminant in the American environment, yet little attention has been paid to its dangers and relatively small amounts of money spent to control it. Compares the effects and management of hearing impairment due to noise with those resulting from other causes. (Editor)

Analyses studies on job satisfaction of community college faculty measures used in the studies may have tapped different dimensions of satisfaction; a measure of general job satisfaction (the better predictor of desire to stay at job) was found to be relatively independent of a measure of specific work-activity satisfaction. (Author/AC)

Factors that supervisors consider important to their jobs were analyzed from a series of surveys with more than 300 supervisors over a three-year period. Results show some regional differences and attitude changes, but interesting work was consistently rated most important to the supervisors. (MF)

From research findings on job design and redesign, the authors conclude that all individuals may not approve job enrichment programs which may actually decrease job satisfaction. Although job satisfaction may increase with age, individual differences and other variables make research results inconclusive. (MF)

The author suggests that there are five issues relating to career entry for minority professionals: decisions relative to ethnic character of possible work settings, validation of competence, level of profile, focus of effort, and role of intimacy. These five issues are discussed. (Author)

Develops a conceptual model that describes how and why employees learn to resist planned change within an organizational setting. Planned change, when introduced by management, has the potential of blocking affected employees from satisfying their dominant need structures. Change strategies are developed for management to reduce employee…

Reports results and implications of a questionnaire administered to employees, measuring their perceptions of fair treatment by an organization and relates these perceptions to absenteeism and turnover. Enables professional personnel and industrial relations people to expand their roles in developing more effective organizations. (TA)

Large numbers of women work at jobs that present serious health hazards, although most people associate workplace hazards with traditionally "male" jobs. Physical dangers, stress, and fatigue lead to manifold health problems among working women. These problems should be investigated and conditions improved for workers of both sexes. (Author/GC)