A case study of a tailor-made apprenticeship training program for experienced employees is presented. The existing and aspiring heads, managers, and experts in a single enterprise were offered apprenticeship training for special vocational qualification in engineering. The aim of the case study was to discover participants' views about age,…

In examining if ex-addicts are poor employment risks, the results support the view that addicts are handicapped persons with a distinctive set of personal and life experience factors that represent impediments to obtaining legitimate employment. (Author/CG)

Questionnaires on eight role-conflict categories were administered to 518 women. A role-conflict hierarchy was established. Level of occupational status was found to be a significant variable in six of the categories. Professional women and housewives tended to give similar responses and to demonstrate the least amount of role conflict. (Author)

Evaluated psychometric and demographic data in 84 successful and unsuccessful social service clients. Successful predictors of vocational success among psychiatric populations were: having been married, having held full-time work, and not having been diagnosed as learning disabled. Suggests a combination of information from intelligence tests,…

Descriptive information obtained from chronically unemployed and underemployed men regarding work experience and work attitudes indicated respondents held positive attitudes toward work, but were cynical about the usefulness of job-seeking efforts. (Author)

Investigates relationship of preventive and combative coping resources to appraisals and emotions produced by taking a new job. Graduate students participated by completing inventories measuring variables regarding their last employment experience. Results suggest that preventive coping resources may affect the appraised desirability of taking a…

Compared career experiences of psychology majors (N=50) with those of persons majoring in liberal arts (N=48), the sciences (N=58), and business (N=48). Results indicated psychology majors were similar to liberal arts majors in terms of salary, relationship of major to work, and relevance of major to job experience. (Author/TE)