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Fields, Cynthia J. – Personnel Journal, 1974
An experiment with variable work hours in one department of a large company was so successful that it has become standard procedure in various corporate areas, both staff and line. The result? Increased production, fewer errors, improved employee morale, and a significant reduction in lateness and absenteeism. (Author)
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Flexible Working Hours, Job Satisfaction
Peer reviewedCapdevielle, Patricia; And Others – Monthly Labor Review, 1982
Productivity increased in 1981 in the United States, Japan, and European countries studied. Gains ranged from 2 to 4 percent in the US, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, to 6 percent in England and Denmark, and more than 7 percent in Belgium. In Canada and Sweden, productivity remained essentially unchanged. (SSH)
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Developed Nations, Economic Change, Labor Conditions
Download full textBureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1972
This document presents in highly concentrated form and scope highlights of the principal programs and activities engaged in by the Bureau. Selected major characteristics of more than 50 programs, grouped into related subject matter areas are presented in tabular format. The frequency with which data are made available, principal publications in…
Descriptors: Employment, Employment Statistics, Federal Programs, Health Conditions
Clague, Ewan; Kramer, Leo – 1976
Constituting an update to a previous publication that interpreted the directions of United States manpower policy subsequent to World War II, this publication places the previous essay in the historical context of manpower policies that reach back to the Great Depression of the 1930's and the Employment Act of 1946; and to policy options now…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Employment Programs, Federal Government, Federal Legislation
Smail, Robert W. – 1965
An analysis of the position of the Republic of the Philippines with respect to the contributions of education to manpower development and other areas of concern to strategy planners is examined in this paper. Three major sections cover: (1) education as a force in economic development, (2) economics of education, and (3) contributions of education…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Economic Factors, Educational Economics, Educational Needs
Freedman, Marcia; Maclachlan, Gretchen
Utilizing Federal census data from 1960 and 1970, this study provides (1) an overview of the job structure of the entire American economy as of 1970, by arranging the jobs in a new occupational-industrial matrix and ranking them in terms of average annual earnings; and (2) an analysis of the structural factors that distinguish the better from the…
Descriptors: Age, Classification, Collective Bargaining, Demography
Browning, Harley L.; Singelmann, Joachim – 1975
Sectoral transformation (inter-industry shifts), which is generally analyzed by use of the Fisher-Clark tri-partite division, is examined in this study dealing mainly with the 1960-1970 decade and based on the 1/100 sample of the 1960 and 1970 censuses. (The Fisher-Clark tri-partite division of labor involves a primary sector--agriculture, mining,…
Descriptors: Classification, Employment, Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics
