A brief look at the basic clerical skills required of clerical staff if they are to deal efficiently with data handling operations. (AA)

It is time to take a look at the methods of teaching traditional clerical skills such as typing, shorthand, machine transcription, and decision making in view of the advances in word processing and other technical advances in business equipment. Further research is encouraged in order to update curricula and business programs. (CT)

Shifting nature of office work suggests that an urban junior college business program should continue to provide for high level of skills, but should reflect a shift in focus by providing for administrative office management through programs for the office technician, executive assistant secretary, and professional typist. (Editor)

This program is intended for students who are academically disabled but who can be made employable. (Author)

Students should be trained to obtain employment in any kind of office regardless of the office's size, location, or the duties and tasks involved. Therefore, students should be taught as much as possible about the concept and actualization of word processing. (CT)

Reported are results of a study which compared a traditional method of teaching office practice with a simulation method using MOE Simulation materials. It was found that using simulation was more effective in developing attitudes and personality traits important to the office worker. (SC)

A case study of a student in an experimental program at San Francisco State College which demonstrates that the prestige of college ambience is motivating to hard-core women undertaking clerical training. The program's statistics: 85 percent placement and 98 percent retention. (Author/JB)

The Kensington High School (Philadelphia) clerical skills laboratory program provides opportunities to learn, improve, and combine the vocational skills of clerical practice, office practice, and typewriting in a realistic office setting. (Author)

Exponential technological change must be accepted and managed as the means to achieve goals of good ethics and an even more satisfying standard of living for all. This will become a reality only to the extent that, as a service function in the organization, clerical procedures become a facilitating catalyst. (Author/SC)

The recordkeeping-accounting competencies in business education curriculums should be those needed by all prospective office workers, not just bookkeepers. A task inventory booklet (developed by the Vocational Technical Education Consortium of States) completed by incumbent office workers showed that some of the recordkeeping-accounting tasks…