THIS REPORT DOCUMENTS THE RESULTS OF A REHABILITATION PROGRAM FOR 170 PERSONS, SELECTED BY THE STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE, WHO SUFFERED FROM SEVERE AND CHRONIC UNEMPLOYMENT (HARD-CORE UNEMPLOYED). THE DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS, EMPLOYMENT HISTORY, ETC., WHICH WERE GATHERED THROUGH TESTING AND INTERVIEWS…

According to sex stereotypes, women are more easily influenced than men. This stereotype may derive from perceivers' inferences that women occupy lower status positions than men, and the lower an individual's status in relation to other persons, the more he or she yields to their influence. Each subject (N=408) read a scenario describing a…

An analysis of residential continuing education programs conducted by University Conference Services at Michigan State University's Kellogg Center for Continuing Education was conducted in order to develop an instrument and methodology with universal application to measure conference success and participant satisfaction. Data were gathered from…

Prior to a study to determine the degree to which vocational training is related to employability, a pilot project was conducted to test the proposed research method and determine the bias that might arise from using samples taken from the telephone directory. The selected pilot sample, 835 residences in Hennepin County, Minnesota, was drawn from…

The specification of framework for evaluation of training programs should include a statement of program objectives allowing considerations relative to the total context within which the program operates and providing a sound basis for evaluating program outputs. Principal objectives of manpower training programs include increased rate of pay,…

Data were collected from each graduate on graduation day. The most relevant finding was that future plans were not related to: academic major, academic division, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County honor at graduation. Graduate school attendance declined and a continuing trend of selecting low-cost state university graduate study was…

The 1973 broadcasting industry employment report consists of State reports, organized alphabetically according to community or city, from broadcasting stations with more than 10 full-time employees. Information has been compiled from the annual employment profile report (Federal Communications Commission Form 395), required of broadcast licensees.…

To identify, rate, and cluster groups of competencies and occupational titles at entry and advance levels for occupations in five food products commodity areas, data were collected by interviews with personnel managers in 25 Pennsylvania food processing plants. Some findings were: (1) There were meaningful competency factor and occupational title…

This study investigated the employment status of former clients whose cases had been closed in the fiscal years 1963 through 1967; 86 percent of those surveyed had been considered rehabilitated, i.e. gainfully employed, at the time of closure. Usable information was obtained by a mailed questionnaire from 3,977 of 6,435 former clients for whom…

A working party of the Engineering Employees' Federation in the Lancashire and Cheshire region in England met to consider management training and development, to examine the arrangements for management training and development in large companies, and to make recommendations to small and medium sized ones. Data collected from companies through a…

The primary purpose of the study was to ascertain the present employment status, plans for future education, attitude toward existing local educational programs, and attitude toward education in general of the 629 adults who passed the General Education Development (GED) test after preparation at one of the 14 learning centers in Kentucky during…

To determine the extent to which the perceived English language performance of employed bilingual Mexican-Americans influenced or handicapped them in performing job duties as proficiently as their monolingual counterparts, personal interviews were conducted with equal numbers of Mexican-Americans, their non-Mexican-American occupational peers, and…

This report presents one-page statistical profiles for each of the Veterans Administration's (VA's) major professional and administrative career fields. Each profile contains data on total employment, distribution by grade and sex, and statistical measures of age, length of service, and education levels. Also, included are measures of the activity…

Women are being drawn into the labor force today by powerful economic, demographic, and social forces and far reaching attitudinal changes. Recognition of the reality that women must work, they want to work, and their labor is needed should help us institute policies that would bring about reforms in many areas of life. (Author/GC)

A survey of adult basic education (ABE) program directors in five states revealed that most ABE teachers are women and work part-time without benefits while most ABE administrators are men who are employed full-time. Concludes that women employed in ABE are victims of discrimination. (EM)