Surveys returned by 11 teachers of the hearing impaired in rural areas of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma were analyzed. Concerns included the wide age range of student caseloads, geographic isolation, too many roles to perform, teacher burnout, and isolation within the educational system. The survey is appended. (DB)

This study investigated the possibility that high levels of direct support in supported employment programs are associated with less typicalness, integration, and wages. The study found that wage and integration outcomes can be increased, even if there is a high level of direct support, if there is coworker training. (Contains references.)…

As a job changes, person-job fit is likely to change. A number of factors affect older workers' ability and choice to adjust to job changes: individual factors (knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes, attractiveness of retirement); and organizational (orientation to workplace changes, the redesigned job, training, support, personnel practices,…

Collaborative inquiry was facilitated among six nursing managers learning to be more holistic in their work. They moved through eight cycles of action-reflection as they attempted to improve communication and respect, increase self-understanding, and use new skills and understanding to build community throughout the hospital. (SK)

Considers the supervisor's role as facilitator of workplace learning within four adult education traditions: training, self-directed learning/andragogy, leaner-centered humanistic education, and critical pedagogy. Discusses tensions that could arise in implementing each type as well as the necessity to develop and maintain trust. (Contains 40…

The fundamental problem in leadership development is the huge disparity between what is being spent and the return on that investment. Remedies include clarifying desired outcomes, putting leadership development in an organizational context, beginning with results, linking competencies to results, transforming leadership development into a…

Article provides a model of work personality incorporating Erikson's theory of development, Neff's research in work behavior, and Bandura's theory of observational learning. Applies Hershenson's model of work adjustment to conceptualize interventions that strengthen work personality to increase work-role behavior. (Author/JDM)

Portfolio thinking is characterized by a personal awareness of one's own contribution, value, and responsibility. It requires individualized thinking, technology-based knowledge management, and a context-creating communication infrastructure. (JOW)

Middle managers in high-tech companies (n=163) characterized their work environment with the terms complexity, ambiguity, and lack of control. A postmodern mechanism for organizational and managerial development involved creation of complexity maps, a diagnostic tool for identifying concerns and areas for personal growth and development. (SK)

Offers suggestions for creating a prepared environment for teachers, within the context of Montessori practice. Maintains that teachers' status can be ensured by practices such as giving concrete individual acknowledgments, creating social times together, learning together, doing purposeful process work, exhibiting respectful behavior,…

Current issues in workplace learning scholarship include the following: situated learning and knowledge, culture and context of workplaces, texts and discourses mediating working knowledge, identity and difference, and equity and ethics in working knowledge. (Contains 39 references.) (SK)

Complexity theory is used to describe how workplace leaning occurs within a system of interactions and relationships. The learning system of a school-as-workplace is examined to understand the relationships, disequilibrium, and engagement that occur in a learning community. (SK)

Modern organizational changes purportedly intended to increase job satisfaction and reduce turnover are actually forms of social control. Analysis of data from 6,000 employees found that an unintended yet beneficial consequence of these changes is reduced sexual harassment. (Contains 60 references.) (SK)

Proposes conceptual models for work discrimination and discrimination coping strategies pertaining to lesbian, gay, and bisexual workers. The work discrimination model includes three dimensions (formal vs. informal, potential vs. encountered, and perceived vs. real), and the coping strategies model outlines methods that deal with potential and…

Drawing on the work of Foucault, and to a lesser extent actor-network theory, this article examines some of their methodological and theoretical implications for conceptions of workplace learning. We suggest that workplaces need to be examined for the spatio-temporal ordering of practices and the actors drawn into them in order to move beyond the…