Interviews and school visits investigated how 193 school personnel respect, appreciate, and acknowledge paraprofessionals who work in inclusive classrooms supporting students with and without disabilities. Themes included nonmonetary signs and symbols of appreciation, compensation, being entrusted with important responsibilities, noninstructional…

Explores how principals maintain control when faced with demands for both teacher autonomy and increased environmental involvement. Interviews with 22 Israeli teachers and principals revealed four administrative control mechanisms: direct control and indirect control (via elementary teachers' teamwork), and manipulation of secondary teachers'…

Argues that existing accountability standards for educational leaders are inadequate to accommodate the diverse contextual realities of working life. Raises critical questions concerning the most appropriate philosophical views of contemporary educational leadership and how to assess such leadership. Organizations as open systems are superior to…

Provides career counselors and clients with useful information on understanding occupational environments. Specifically focuses on how to handle a situation in which a client's identified three-letter occupational code is identical to two clearly divergent occupations. (Contains 22 references.) (Author/GCP)

A management class exercise involving role play engages students in critical reflection on the impact of changing employment conditions in people's lives and their participation in these changes. It is designed to stimulate wider consideration of social responsibility. (SK)

Camp directors are role models for staff, and their behavior sets the tone for staff behavior. Treat staff like adults. Treat them with respect; be demanding and fair. Clearly tell them what is expected. Encourage initiative, and don't punish the mistakes that come with learning to make decisions. Anecdotes illustrate how inappropriate management…

Conflict is common in college student life, where economic stress, close living conditions, and exposure to new people and ideas challenge students. Four vignettes illustrate typical conflicts concerning roommate relationships, workplace relationships among students, broken intimate relationships, and sexual harassment. Resolution options and…

The American Red Cross (ARC) Disaster Mental Health Services program uses a multidisciplinary approach to deliver crisis intervention to disaster workers and victims after hurricanes. Discusses the impetus for the ARC's development of the program, its early implementation, and ongoing challenges in the further development of this approach to…

An acoustic orientation system was developed that employed a portable remote control device keyed to trigger audio tones from modules placed at key locations throughout the user's home and work environments. Results found that the system helped a blind subject to move and work successfully in both settings, and the subject found it easy and…

The tremendous impact of technological change on human workers, coupled with declining resources in many college and university information technology programs, can create an emotionally and physically harmful environment for employees. They can also present an important opportunity for positively changing cognitive behavior and increasing…

Indicates that a combination of competition in domestic and international markets, rapid changes in technology, and changes in how the workplace is organized contribute to dissatisfaction among employers regarding the quality of job applicants. Suggests that applied teaching and learning strategies are the best way to achieve transferability. (JOW)

Summarizes a qualitative study of principal burnout, focusing on causes of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment in the principalship. Nine principals explain how the job has changed, what job elements precipitated burnout, and why they are leaving. Discusses implications, including the need for improved support…

Describes an activity designed to illustrate the importance of workplace factors in improving performance and a study that demonstrates its validity. Results of the study indicate that two-thirds of the participants believed that the workplace factors of information, resources, and incentives needed improving in order to enable them to improve…

A concerted effort is needed to identify employer involvement in special education transition efforts. More research on employer involvement and dissemination of findings are needed. Employer involvement should happen throughout the transition process, not just at the end of it. (JOW)

Presents a study that verified the effects of the peer-assisted leadership program (PAL) on communication networks and professional isolation of 41 Quebec educational managers, using a one-group pretest posttest design. Results showed that PAL significantly reduced professional isolation without widening participants' communication networks. (34…