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BCEL Newsletter for the Business Community, 1988
Critics call computerized innovations and other changes in the workplace examples of the employers'"dumbing down" of jobs for illiterate workers. Others disagree and say the changes free workers from routine, monotonous tasks and permit them to learn more complex procedures and to take on more responsibility. Findings of a survey of business…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Automation, Computer Oriented Programs, Efficiency

Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Planning and Research Branch. – 1977
This study examines the required levels of custodial services for schools in the County of Athabasca. Standard work units were described and applied to the tasks specified for each school. As a result, it was found that the level of custodial staffing is presently below requirements. Recommendations were set forth for increasing the custodial…
Descriptors: Building Operation, Cost Effectiveness, Custodian Training, Educational Programs
Hackman, J. Richard; And Others – 1974
In presenting a new strategy for redesigning jobs to increase the work motivation and satisfaction of employees, the paper examines a basic theory of job motivation, a group of core dimensions of jobs which create the conditions for such internal motivation to develop on the job, a set of diagnostic tools for evaluating jobs and people's reaction…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Employee Attitudes, Employment Potential, Employment Problems
Lavine, Eileen M.; Moore, Audrey – 1977
A feasibility study was aimed at developing a strategy for implementing and utilizing the job analysis methodology which resulted from the Health Services Mobility Study (HSMS), particularly as it can be applied to the field of diagnostic radiology. (The HSMS method of job analysis starts with task descriptions analyzing the tasks that make up a…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum Development, Efficiency
Leontief, Wassily; Duchin, Faye – 1984
A study examined the actual and projected impact of automation on employment between 1963 and 2000. Utilizing a fully integrated, dynamic input-output model that was designed for this study, the researchers analyzed a large body of quantitative information from diverse, especially technical, sources. This effort resulted in the development of a…
Descriptors: Automation, Economic Change, Economic Climate, Economic Factors
Garza, Andrew T.; Carpenter, James B. – 1974
Military and civil service personnel having similar job types and from comparable accounting and finance career ladders were compared on several attributes. The data reveal certain distinct differences between the two populations with the magnitude of the differences being highly variable as functions of specific job types considered. Generally,…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Data Analysis
Carter, Michael A. – 1975
The world of work is composed of contradictory conditions which schooling tries to mediate through a reproductive process. The present organization of production based on wage-labor is inherently self-contradictory in that the interests of management and labor are directly opposed. School prepares individuals to deal with the types of peer…
Descriptors: Educational Background, Educational Change, Educational Theories, Employee Attitudes