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Download full textPage, Jane A.; Page, Fred M., Jr. – 1985
The purposes of this study were threefold: (1) to identify school principals' perceptions of their occupational responsibilities and the academic preparation needed for those responsibilities; (2) to determine significant relationships between perceptions of preparation and perceptions of difficulty; and (3) to identify significant differences…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Tetrick, Lois E.; And Others – 1984
A review of the literature on job analysis and job evaluation reveals several aspects of jobs which are important to organizations. To better explain the psychological dimensions of the work environment, three models of perceived job characteristics were compared using confirmatory factor analysis: Walsh, Taber, and Beehr's (1980) components of…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Factor Structure, Individual Power, Information Processing
McDole, Thomas L. – 1985
Several factors must be considered when implementing office automation. Included among these are whether or not to automate at all, the effects of automation on employees, requirements imposed by automation on the physical environment, effects of automation on the total organization, and effects on clientele. The reasons behind the success or…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Automation, Change Strategies, Employer Employee Relationship
Pokrywczynski, James V.; Crowley, John H. – 1988
A study examined job satisfaction among women in advertising. Subjects were 48 female respondents from a mail survey of membership of a Midwest advertising club. Two types of job satisfaction measures were used: items from the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire and the action tendency scales developed by E. Locke. The results showed a high level…
Descriptors: Advertising, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Westbrook, Heloise Demoin; Sarvela, Paul D. – 1987
The increasing numbers of elderly persons in the United States has resulted in the need for community programs which enable the elderly to remain in their homes. It appears that home health care is one method of providing needed basic assistance to the rural elderly population in a cost-efficient manner. This study was conducted to examine the…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Community Health Services, Health Personnel, Home Programs
President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, Washington, DC. – 1988
This handbook on employee fitness program describes the benefits of developing physical recreation programs in the workplace. Descriptions are offered of various successful programs and their impact on employee health and job performance. (JD)
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Job Satisfaction, Personnel Policy
Withers, Nancy A. – 1987
Sexual harassment is a problem in high schools, on college campuses, and in the workplace, although unclear definitions and misinterpretations of sexual harassment have led many to believe that the amount of sexual harassment that occurs is minimal. Sexual harassment has been defined as a continuum of behaviors, with physical sexual assault at one…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Compliance (Legal), Federal Legislation, Females
Rosse, Joseph G. – 1982
According to an employee withdrawal model suggested by Miller and Rosse (1982), workers engage in a variety of integrated behaviors that are intended to place physical and psychological distance between themselves and a noxious work environment. To investigate the relationship of job satisfaction and employee withdrawal behaviors, 48 newly hired,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Employee Attitudes, Employees, Females
Stefanics, Elizabeth T. – 1983
A study investigated past socialization processes that affected particular women's career choices and career mobility in the leisure services field. The study's purposes were: (1) to ascertain the presence of management-related success socialization factors in current female professionals and female students in the leisure services field within…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Career Choice, Females, Leisure Time
Klein, Robert E. – 1988
Decreasing enrollments and financial problems have led to considerable restructuring in North Dakota schools. One form of restructuring was the creation of dual-role administrative positions combining two or all of the roles of superintendent, elementary principal, and secondary principal. In 1987, 47 of 51 administrators holding such positions…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Problems, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education
Stewart, Lea P. – 1987
Employees who "blow the whistle" on their company because they believe it is engaged in practices that are illegal, immoral, or harmful to the public, often face grave consequences for their actions, including demotion, harassment, forced resignation, or termination. The case of Allan McDonald and Roger Boisjoly, engineers who blew the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Communication Research, Employee Responsibility, Employer Employee Relationship
Reyes, Pedro; McCarty, Donald J. – 1986
Mechanic's (1962) conceptual model of power of lower participants was empirically tested, with a focus on the relationship between chairpersons and departmental secretaries of academic units. Power was defined as the ability of a person to have access to and control over information and individuals. A questionnaire was developed that covered the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Department Heads, Higher Education, Interaction
Conrad, Fran; Kayman, Lindsey – 1983
This guide is intended to assist workers in reducing their exposure to hazardous chemicals on the job. It describes a systematic preventive approach to hazardous chemicals that is based on the following steps: determining which chemicals are in use at a particular worksite (techniques for asking the company and steps to take if the company is…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Adult Education, Equipment Utilization, Hazardous Materials
Collins, Kevin – 1983
Many attempts have been made to explain how modern Japan has, with speed and minimal stress, become competitive with Western nations in terms of military strength and industrial productivity. One factor commonly mentioned is the "groupishness," the collective orientation,that is basic to Japanese society. Some research has suggested that…
Descriptors: Community Role, Educational Environment, Family Life, Foreign Countries
Priest, Robert F.; Fullerton, Terrence – 1985
Sexual harassment is difficult to define. A study was undertaken to examine four variables related to sexual harassment: (1) sexual harassment when behaviors are unwelcome and sexual; (2) unwelcome nonsexual behavior called nonsexual aggravation; (3) welcome sexual behavior which includes organizationally dysfunctional relations and…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employee Attitudes, Employees, Military Personnel
