Problems in the community health middle management role are explored. Sources of role ambiguity (bureaucratic role discrepancy, professional role discrepancy, performance role discrepancy) are examined. The advantages of the creation of a holistic-oriented environment also are discussed. (CT)

Centralized collective bargaining has increased teachers' salaries and provided better working conditions and benefits in Quebec. But it has also spawned a number of troublesome consequences that promote conflict. (Author)

Described is a study which replicates one conducted four years before in which data were collected on junior- and senior-high science teacher perceptions of their teaching skills and their school conditions. Results show that teachers' perceptions have become more favorable since the original study. (CS)

Job satisfaction and involvement relate to a need for achievement and dominance, but not to the need for autonomy. Employees with achievement needs succeed in a Scanlon Plan environment. Participative management also appeals to those with dominance needs. (JAC)

Women whose choices were in nontraditional career fields were significantly more likely to be making choices congruent with their personality type. While sex-role orientation was not significantly related to either congruence or traditionality, masculine-typed women were most likely to make nontraditional and congruent career choices. (Author)

Factors affecting job satisfaction and the impact of satisfaction on job performance were investigated to develop strategies for dealing with low job satisfaction. Results indicated that student affairs staff were satisfied with their current jobs, but did not feel that student affairs was considered important at their institutions. (RC)

Discusses factors to be considered in the selection of microcomputers for school use (components, cost, reliability, serviceability, who will use them, applications, input and output requirements, processing, storage, etc.), and describes the development of a computer area for a multiple activity lab. (CT)

Data from a 1977 survey designed to measure the quality of employment in America are compared with data from surveys in 1969 and 1973, providing trends over an eight-year period. The 1977 survey shows declines both in job satisfaction and in workers' desires to stay in their present employments. (MF)

Describes the job worksite program developed by Altro Workshops, Inc., Bronx, New York, to serve as an intermediate step between the protected vocational training workshop and the unprotected work world. Psychiatric clients of the workshop selected for the program were placed in facility-supervised or company-supervised jobs with generally good…

Half of a sample of 588 Oslo sixth-graders took originality tests in a relaxed atmosphere and half in a stressful environment. The percentages of very low and very high scores were lower in the stressful group, regardless of the sex, intelligence, or test anxiety of the subjects. (Author/SJL)

A model from the occupational sociology literature is used to examine how the interactions of the environmental characteristics of academic departments and the personal characteristics of chairmen are related to the job satisfaction and career intentions of chairmen. (LBH)

Attacks the turnover/retention problem by looking primarily at the stayer rather than the leaver in hopes of finding factors influencing career decisions over which management has some control. (Author/RK)

To stimulate thinking and discussion about the world of art, the author, a careers head at a large London comprehensive, gave this document to students in the upperschool. (Editor/RK)

This study reports student personnel officers' attitudes and perceptions of their work environment and management styles. These perceptions are compared with those of other college administrators. Results indicate that student affairs administrators are on the fringes of the administrative circle. (Author)

As a result of the inefficiency of lectures, the increase in scientific knowledge, and today's cooperative work environment, several written assignments for teams were designed for chemistry students. Assignments consist of fundamental topics and definitions eliminated from lectures. Benefits besides the group experience included better textbook…