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Allen, George E. – School Business Affairs, 1977
Describes the centralized word processing center implemented by the Quakertown Community School District. (JG)
Descriptors: Centralization, Clerical Workers, Secretaries, Shared Services
Peer reviewedSimcoe, Annell Lacy – Business Education Forum, 1980
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)
Descriptors: Business Education, Clerical Workers, Curriculum Development, Decision Making Skills
Peer reviewedOwnby, Arnola C. – Business Education Forum, 1982
Explores skills needed by staff in the automated office; skills needed by administrative support personnel; and skills needed by executives and managers. Also makes recommendations for updating classroom equipment. (CT)
Descriptors: Business Administration, Clerical Workers, Educational Equipment, Job Skills
Peer reviewedWeber, Charles T. – Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, 1980
The author examines the results of public sector bargaining by comparing the wage history of police officers with that of senior clerk-typists in 63 cities in southeastern Michigan between 1965 and 1978. Ability to pay variables were analyzed. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Clerical Workers, Collective Bargaining, Dropouts, Government Employees
Download full textNorth Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1988
This seasonal project integrates the skills of typing, photocopying, calculating, composing, alphabetizing, and human relations, which the student has acquired during the first part of the Administrative Support Occupations II course. The activity is a simulation that involves a small, specialty, mail-order business selling novelty items for…
Descriptors: Alphabetizing Skills, Calculators, Clerical Workers, Human Relations
Peer reviewedAnd Others; King, Patricia H. – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 1978
A sample of 576 clerical workers completed occupational inventory booklets showing tasks performed and the time spent performing them. In addition, clerical workers, supervisors, and business teachers rated the learning difficulty of each task. The catalog of performance objectives prepared from the data can be used to develop career-relevant…
Descriptors: Clerical Occupations, Clerical Workers, Educational Objectives, Job Skills
Peer reviewedDolecheck, Carolyn Crawford – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 1973
Rapid installation of word processing systems by organizations challenges educators to produce secretarial and managerial personnel with new skills and knowledge, aware of new career paths (administrative secretary, correspondence secretary); with or without automatic equipment, these can best be learned in established courses where basic skills…
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Business Education Teachers, Business Skills, Career Opportunities
Reid, Jayne – 1974
Predictors of occupational choices and of on-the-job effectiveness for graduates of secondary school stenographic training programs were investigated. Prior to graduation, 192 stenographic students were tested in measures of attitude, personality, and stenographic achievement. These students were then classified according to occupational choices…
Descriptors: Clerical Workers, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Evaluation
Peer reviewedVale, C. David – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1990
Describes Minnesota Clerical Assessment Battery (MCAB), one of the first computerized tests for personnel selection to be made commercially available to businesses. Maintains that application of computerized testing to business is somewhat different from its application to education or counseling. Presents results of survey of potential users who…
Descriptors: Business English, Business Skills, Clerical Workers, Computer Assisted Testing
Wise, Elva Lea – Balance Sheet, 1974
After observing several large company offices in Denver in operation, the author suggests course content slantings and recommendations to better meet office requirements of today and tomorrow. Recommendations are categorized according to clerical practice, data processing, shorthand, and typewriting. (EA)
Descriptors: Business Education, Clerical Workers, Data Processing, Economic Progress
Chapman, Pat – 1977
Supporting performance objective 10 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on training other clerical workers in the operation of the executive typewriter are included in this packet. (The packet is the third in a set of three on…
Descriptors: Assignments, Behavioral Objectives, Business Education, Business Skills
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Bureau of Business Education. – 1965
FIFTY-THREE REPRESENTATIVES FROM GOVERNMENT, BUSINESS, AND INDUSTRY PARTICIPATED IN THREE CONFERENCES TO DISCUSS PRESENT AND FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN OFFICE OCCUPATIONS AND TO REVIEW A SYNTHESIS OF ENTRY REQUIREMENTS FOR OFFICE JOBS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. THE SYNTHESIS, MADE BY THE BUREAU OF BUSINESS EDUCATION, UTILIZED…
Descriptors: Clerical Workers, Conferences, Educational Needs, Employer Attitudes
Crandall, JoAnn – 1981
An ethnographic study of five clerk-typists and five applications clerks in a large federal agency included observations, interviews, and a 3-week job literacy program. Both in their performance on job tasks and in the tests and exercises in the literacy program, the clerks demonstrated a number of strategies by which they quickly locate…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Clerical Workers
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1969
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Clerical Occupations, Clerical Workers
Showel, Morris – 1972
This report presents the results of research to develop an improved training program for Army typists, and the material needed to implement that program. The research was conducted at Fort Ord and Fort Knox. First, baseline learning curves were determined. Eight experimental programs then were examined, and the results of various modifications in…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Clerical Workers, Enlisted Personnel, Evaluation Methods
