Notes six phenomena occurring in today's offices that will necessitate the office of the future. Describes the office of the future and outlines its characteristics and characteristics needed by future office employees. (SH)

Evaluates the effect of integration and segregation of Blacks and whites in a small group setting in a work environment. Discriminant analysis suggests that while few behavioral and attitudinal differences exist between Blacks and whites, integration is beneficial to Blacks and not detrimental to whites. (Author)

The Social Security Administration's Retirement History Study was used to study the microeconomic determinants of early retirement among white married men aged 58-63. Factors analysis of personal and financial characteristics, local labor market conditions, and certain job attributes revealed that Health status and eligibility for pensions are the…

Compares black and white sailors on job-related satisfaction. Differences in satisfaction were explores in regard to two hypothesized sources--differences in individual needs and differences in work conditions, although measurement of the latter was restricted to perceptions of the environment. (Author/RK)

Examines extent to which parents transmit feelings and ideas about their jobs to their children and how the children perceive and respond to this information. Young people are fairly good predictors of parents' job satisfaction and working conditions. Though mothers may talk more about their work than fathers, children do not know more about…

Interviewed 20 professional women on their work-related stress and coping processes to identify those who were good and poor at coping. Found that more effective copers seemed to have used problem-focused coping such as seeking information or advice or taking problem-solving action, whereas less effective copers seemed to have used strategies such…

Focused on the experiences with work of children from 7 months to 18 years of age in families who worked at home for income. Findings indicated all verbal children had concrete knowledge of their parents' work. All children were involved with their parents' work in a developmental progression. (Author/BB)

Faced with a shrinking labor pool and increasing competition, employers are beginning to take basic workplace skills training into their own hands. Such training involves (1) identifying skills-related job changes or problems; (2) building management and union support; (3) developing a strategy; (4) performing task analysis; (5) designing and…

Analyzes three characteristics of American public culture that help explain our civic quietism: (1) lack of meaningful information for making informed decisions; (2) lack of democratic rights in the workplace; and (3) lack of a cooperative social vision. American schools as presently organized provide few opportunities for learning and…

Finds evidence for both the consistency and the variability of behavior precludes resolution of the person-environment controversy. Prefers dynamic, interpretive, process-oriented models of person-environment interaction emphasizing stasis and flow of behavior, to static descriptive models. Describes a theory of goal-directed behavior focusing on…

Evaluated person-environment fit and job satisfaction based on the Theory of Work Adjustment. Provided evidence for commensurate structures and directional interpretations of need-reinforcer correspondence, and indicated that the relationship between the correspondence indices and job satisfaction was moderated by profile component, type of…

Emphasizes that environments are a function of the people behaving in them. Reviews a new conceptualization of organizational functioning based on the attraction-selection-attrition framework. Describes the implications of this framework for various areas of study in industrial/organizational psychology and vocational behavior. (Author/KS)

The author discusses alternative models of work organization that may result from the introduction of technology into the workplace. Skills and training needs are emphasized. (CH)

Examined social interactions among developmentally disabled workers (N=30) and the social context of interactions during work and breaks in sheltered and nonsheltered work settings. Studied workers' initiation patterns and the general structure of workers' conversations as well as the social context for these interactions. (Author/ABB)

The Holmes Group is a national organization of some 90 research universities that addresses the low quality of teacher preparation. Its goals are to reform teacher education and teaching itself by promoting intellectually sound programs, recognizing teacher differences, revising standards, connecting education programs with schools, and improving…