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Carpentier, J. – Training Officer, 1975
The report details ways in which work is being organized to make it more pleasant and rewarding but warns that success depends on the cooperation of workers and the general public. (Author)
Descriptors: Community Support, Employment Practices, Humanization, Job Development
Peer reviewedMire, Joseph – Monthly Labor Review, 1974
A report on efforts in five countries (Sweden, Great Britain, France, Italy, and West Germany) to restructure and reorganize jobs and on the participation of trade unions in job improvement experiments is presented. (Author/AG)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Humanization, Improvement, Industrial Structure
Peer reviewedLevitan, Sar A.; Johnston, William B. – Monthly Labor Review, 1973
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Employee Responsibility, Employment Problems, Humanization
Taylor, James C. – 1984
For more than 80 years, jobs in the United States have been designed by people for others. For most of these years, the experts in job design have placed the production technology above the job holder in importance. Since the 1950s, many jobs have been redesigned around new, computer-based technology. Often, the net effect has been to make those…
Descriptors: Adults, Business Administration, Case Studies, Human Factors Engineering
Download full textArends, Richard I.; Essig, Don M. – 1972
This report is the fourth in a series describing the background, theory, and progress of the Differentiated Staffing Project in the Eugene, Oregon, School District. This report discusses the effects of the addition of paid paraprofessionals, or Teaching Assistants (TAs), to the unitized, differentiated staffing schools in Eugene. Specifically, it…
Descriptors: Differentiated Staffs, Elementary Schools, Experiential Learning, Experimental Schools
Nash, Al – 1977
Diverse opinions are held by workers, union officials, and labor researchers about the importance of the quality of working life to workers. Major issues in this debate focus on the following questions: (1) Is there a workers' movement to improve the quality of working life? (2) Do workers seek meaning and self-fulfillment in their jobs? (3) Can…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Experiments, Failure
Greenberg, Paul D.; Glaser, Edward M. – 1980
This publication summarizes the proceedings of the Conference of Union Officials on Issues Related to Labor-Management Cooperation in Quality of Worklife (QWL) Improvement Efforts (March 1979) and subsequently treats issues that emerged in more detail. Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to QWL. A summary of the Washington, D.C. conference…
Descriptors: Career Education, Collective Bargaining, Conference Proceedings, Cooperative Planning
