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Burlew, Larry D. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1985
Presents model for job development, which can be useful to employment, rehabilitation, and career counselors in surveying the employment community and identifying unadvertised job openings, skills essential to the role of placement specialist. (Author)
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Counselors, Employment Services, Job Development
Como, Perry; Hagner, David – 1986
This manual is concerned with developing community-based work for persons with disabilities, particularly disabled workers in segregated settings and individuals who are considered not yet ready for or capable of work. The first part of the publication deals with the following topics: the concepts of community, work, and severe disabilities; the…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Case Studies, Community Development, Community Programs
Garner, Barbara – 1994
This manual describes an effective, cost- and time-efficient approach to basic education and vocational training for adults. The approach was developed during a pilot project in Massachusetts that featured the following: capitalizing on students' interests, hands-on vocational training, the expectation that students' motivation to learn a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Guidelines, Job Development
Snyder, Karolyn J. – 1986
This paper describes two conceptual models for addressing long-range development needs of principals. The first, a job competency model for managing productive schools, presents a comprehensive view of the central job tasks of the principal for stretching the school's capacity to influence achievement norms. Changing the school's work norms…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Responsibility, Change Strategies, Competence
Wider Opportunities for Women, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1993
This manual is intended for use at demonstration sites of the Nontraditional Employment Training (NET) project, which is in turn designed to provide Private Industry Councils with a model for implementing the Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW) Act (Public Law 102-235). Included in the manual are the following: excepts from newspapers and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Demonstration Programs, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs
Koehoorn, Mieke; Lowe, Graham S.; Rondeau, Kent V.; Schellenberg, Grant; Wagar, Terry H. – 2002
Insights from a variety of research streams were synthesized to identify the key ingredients of a high-quality work environment in Canada's health care sector and ways of achieving high-quality workplaces in the sector. The following sets of interacting factors were considered: (1) the work environment and the human resource practices that shape…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cooperative Planning, Educational Research, Employer Employee Relationship
Rademacher, Ida; Bear, Marshall; Conway, Maureen – 2001
Project QUEST (Quality Employment through Skills Training) was begun in 1992 to provide unemployed and working poor residents of San Antonio, Texas, with employment training and job placement services. The program provides tuition subsidies and ancillary support services to low-income San Antonio residents enrolled in two-year associate's degree…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Associate Degrees, Basic Skills, Case Studies