Summarizes the findings and methodology of some of the recent innovative labor market studies in the private sector. Emphasis is placed on the micro-data study of the job creation process at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Similar studies at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Brookings Institution are also summarized. (CT)

This manual systematizes the techniques and strategies that employment workers used in Jobs Now, the manpower agency which developed the coaching role that has subsequently been adopted throughout the country. It is designed both for those people with a general interest in staff-client relations and techniques and for those concerned with specific…

The challenge for human resource development managers is to design an environment that makes the most of productive people rather than perpetuating the factory system of work. (JOW)

The real retraining of the American work force will not come about through massive, federally operated job training programs. It will come about only when employers are able to look forward to a promising economic future that requires highly trained and motivated employees and that offers real jobs. (Author/SSH)

The article deals with the economic goals of full employment and economic development through its direction toward problems related to creating jobs in American Indian communities. (Author/NQ)

Future training and development programs should stress need to improve and achieve conditions of productivity that can continue to have the United States compete in world markets. (DS)

The plight of the Alaskan native is forcefully described here. Employers recruit outside the state, while native residents, able and willing to work, cannot find jobs. Meanwhile Artic oil discoveries threaten to compound the dilemma. (Editor)

Examines the scientific bases for the improvement of the employment situation by vocational training; strategies for developing new employment opportunities; and political conditions governing the effectiveness of employment programs. (Availability: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 5, rue du Commerce, L-2985,…

Redesigning jobs, training, and retraining may be the most important economic challenge facing this country for the next decade. Training must support jobs that are really changing and retraining has to prepare people for jobs that really exist. (Author/JOW)

This publication of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) describes a project investigating employment and training in Greece, Spain, and Portugal. An introduction tells why CEDEFOP has given priority to those countries. The second section reports the project's examination of the textiles and ready-to-wear…

Pheonix's Public Employment Program (PEP) helps workers qualify for permanent jobs. (MW)

The 197 participants, representing all areas of home economics, attended a 3-day national workshop on the training and utilization of auxiliary workers within the field of home economics. Workshop activities included a symposium of auxiliary personnel employed as aides in home economics-related occupations and group discussions which followed…

There are large groups of people in this country who want to work, but cannot get useful jobs, because they are undereducated, unskilled, considered too young or to old, or are subject to discrimination. The Committee for Economic Development (CED) has been examining the problem and in a new report has called for a broad set of private and public…