Annual productivity increases averaged 2.4 percent during 1963-79, slowing since 1972 to 1.5 percent; computer-assisted design and product standardization aided growth in output per employee-hour. (Author)

Warren Bennis discusses the field of organization development and its needs, applications, unresolved problems, and future. (LRA)

Aspects of developing countries that may make computer-integrated manufacturing inappropriate include (1) inadequate infrastructure; (2) lack of capital; (3) policies regarding use of local products; (4) many small and medium-sized businesses; and (5) management practices. Higher productivity depends more on skilled management and workers and more…

Describes the Japanese system of employment counseling. Focuses on the current situation at the Public Employment Security Office, the problems employment counseling has faced, and future directions in view of the rapid changes occurring in industry and society. Includes an overview of the employment exchange system and a discussion of a…

Uses three case studies from Norwegian industrial modernization programs (a formative evaluation, a summative evaluation, and an additionality analysis) to demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of an evaluation tool called "chains of reasoning." Chains of reasoning uses text and a graphic image to present program activities and goals.…

The paper's main argument is that the rates of distributive injustice in industrial societies are significantly influenced by labor markets' institutional properties. Markets characterized by institutional properties that heavily favor capital at the expense of labor are expected to produce more distributive injustice--as well as more income…

This paper argues that public education, as a contemporary industry, is more like business than any other organization. The traditional view of education defines the student as customer, the teacher as worker, teaching and learning as the products, and school boards as overly influential. An alternative paradigm is presented that defines school…

This document reports on visits to a dozen enterprises in China jointly owned by the Chinese and foreign countries and to three other enterprises that are exclusively owned by the Chinese or by foreign interests. The document begins with sections called "The Opening Up of the Economy to the Outside World,""Chinese…

The director of an industry training board looks at the effect the new pattern of employment and training (under the Employment and Training Act of 1973) will have on the Training boards' operation in a paper presented at the BACIE (British Association for Commercial and Industrial Education) national conference. (AG)

CREATING IN SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AN AWARENESS FOR THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY UPON THEIR DAILY LIVES WAS THE AIM OF THIS STUDY. A NEW ORIENTATION FOR INDUSTRIAL ARTS TEACHERS ATTEMPTED TO DEFINE A CURRICULUM AREA FOR COMPREHENSION OF THE BROAD SCOPE OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY, RATHER THAN THE USUAL FOCUS UPON ISOLATED TRADES, OCCUPATIONS, OR…

This is one of several papers presented at a Federal Trade Commission Symposium on Media Concentration. It analyzes trends in the development of one-newspaper cities. Some of the trends noted are that face-to-face competition has declined considerably over the last five decades, going from 90% of the circulation in 1923 to 30% of the circulation…

THIS CONDENSED TRANSCRIPT OF A SEMINAR DEVOTED TO A REVIEW OF ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGE CONTAINS THE ADDRESS OF THE PRINCIPAL SPEAKER AND SOME SUBSEQUENT DISCUSSION. THE ADDRESS EXAMINES MAJOR RECENT TRENDS IN THE GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT, IN PRIVATE INVESTMENT AND GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES, IN THE LABOR FORCE AND EMPLOYMENT PATTERNS, AND IN…

Tables and charts developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor illustrate: (1) trends in employment, (2) proportion of workers in white collar, blue collar, service, and farm jobs, (3) membership in unions, (4) areas of rapid job growth, (5) percent change in employment by industry, (6) occupational trends, (7)…

A review of the state of information industries in the United States is presented which discusses the industries themselves, the structure of information industries markets, the problems of privacy and access to information, and public control over media content. The article also reviews briefly some of the other key questions in the field of…