This guide defines apprenticeship as a training program in industrial and craft occupations that require a wide and diverse range of skills and knowledge. It combines supervised on-the-job training and experience with technical classroom studies in subjects related to the trade. Formal apprenticeship training programs must be approved by the U.S.…

The Proposition that Herzberg's bipartite analysis of job satisfaction oversimplifies by failing to take account of variations in work orientation was tested empirically and corroborated; dominant rewards for expressively oriented workers are intrinsic, for instrumentally oriented workers, extrinsic. Management should ascertain variations in…

Non-supervisory training courses covering: understanding information needs; how to work with different managerial styles; thinking ideas through; how to size-up methods; communication; anticipating problems; capitalizing on mistakes; how to use time and set standards and goals--help operating people do their jobs better and prepare them to accept…

The Shipbuilding Industry Training Board looks at the development of craft training, management audit, and interactive skill training. (BP)

A follow-up to a survey of a group of students using the National Extension College's home study course, "How to Study Effectively", compares the progress of part of the workers enrolled under special union arrangements with that of a group of more traditional students. (EA)

A review of the relevant literature, which is the first of two parts of this study, found that the existing literature is sparse and presents a fragmented picture of the information environment of the blue collar adult. The second part was a pilot survey, undertaken to probe this information environment, and consisted of intensive living room…

From a series of studies financed under a grant of the Rockefeller Foundation for work in the area of production functions and income distributions.

The National Petroleum Council has projected a 1980 bituminous coal production of 910 million tons. On that basis, the study estimates the manpower which will be required to produce that volume of coal. On the assumption of a productivity increase of two percent per year from 1974 onwards, the 1980 coal output will require a work force of…

Concerned with the problems of low representation of minority groups in the craft unions in the building trades, this study examined the journeymen admission policies of 17 national craft unions and 98 local affiliates as provided in their national and local constitutions and in their national and local apprenticeship standards under the program…

The purpose of this study is to estimate costs and benefits and to compute alternative benefit-cost ratios for both the individuals and the Federal Government as a result of investing time and resources in the Training and Technology (TAT) Project. TAT is a continuing experimental program in training skilled workers for private industry. The five…

The objective was to investigate the factors which influence the upward movement of skilled craftsmen within the firm. Particular attention was directed to the importance of apprenticeship training in causing intrafirm upgrading; that is: were apprentice-trained craftsmen more inclined to be promoted than nonapprentice-trained craftsmen. Observed…

Obviously, the image of vocational education to which the public subscribes has a great deal of bearing upon whether or not programs are successful in attempts to prepare individuals to become fulfilled, contributing members of society. Therefore, this study was undertaken to determine the image of vocational education in Oklahoma as perceived by…

This study examines the year-to-year movement in the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers, 1907-72, using union contract rates in the construction industry. The author examines a number of hypotheses that have been suggested as explanation for changes in the skill differential. (Editor/HD)

Responses to a questionnaire survey of workers in a machine tool and parts company showed that internal labor market practices generally made a greater contribution to blue collar earnings than skill or knowledge acquired by workers before joining the firm. (Author/DS)