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Breyer, Carol Ann; Zalupski, Vilma – Community and Junior College Journal, 1981
Reviews current forces affecting women in the job marketplace, i.e., societal attitudes, discriminatory practices, and lack of role models in top management. Offers suggestions for helping women "meet the system" such as gaining male support, fostering organizational teamwork, and increasing political and legislative activity. (DMM)
Descriptors: Administrators, Attitude Change, Career Development, Change Strategies
Rumberger, Russell W. – 1983
The United States is faced with two serious economic problems: declining productivity growth and rising unemployment. These problems have become severe in the last decade. Both problems are caused by a number of factors, but experts fail to agree on which factors have most contributed to the problems. This paper examines the relationship between…
Descriptors: Administration, Developed Nations, Disadvantaged, Economic Research
Satterlee, Brian; Craig, Will – 1994
In the future, seven trends--already firmly established--will become dominant in the world of work. Those trends are as follows: (1) middle management positions will continue to be cut; (2) project teams will be assembled for a single purpose; (3) more women will have executive leadership roles; (4) organizations will continue to increase their…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices
Abel, Emily – 1979
A study of the impact of Proposition 13 on the part-time faculty at California universities and colleges is hampered by: (1) the invisibility of part-time instructors in institutional reports and statements; (2) the confusion of Proposition 13 with other factors, such as declining enrollments; and (3) the fact that the full impact of Proposition…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Employment Patterns
Loeb, Laura E. – 1990
Research confirms anecdotal impressions of the following causes of high turnover among both home health and nursing home aides: low wages; inadequate benefits; excessive workloads; poor training, supervision, and working conditions; and job-related stress. Public policy initiatives can dramatically alleviate or exacerbate the crisis among…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Employment Patterns, Employment Problems
Westwood, Andy – 2002
Some new work is good work. Quality is ultimately defined by the individual. However, these perceptions are inevitably colored by the circumstances in which people find themselves, by the time, place, and wide range of motivations for having to do a particular job in the first place. One person's quality may be another's purgatory and vice versa.…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Compensation (Remuneration), Demand Occupations, Economic Impact
Appelbaum, Eileen; Batt, Rosemary – 1994
This book addresses the need for change in the ways businesses are conducted in order to respond to increased global competition and describes the forms change has taken in many businesses. The first part of the book introduces the need for change and describes some change strategies that businesses have adopted. Part II considers the alternative…
Descriptors: Adults, Business Administration, Change Strategies, Economic Change
Kissam, Edward; Intili, Jo Ann; Garcia, Anna – 2001
The U.S. agricultural labor market is already, in many respects, a binational one, and it will become increasingly one in which workers who are born in Mexico will follow a variety of worklife trajectories that take them back and forth between both countries. Recognition of this reality has important implications for policy development and program…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adolescents, Braceros, Child Labor