This bibliography is intended as a reference on manpower planning, at the national, industry, or company level. Certain recurring themes guided the selection of documents in this survey: (1) The main objective of macroeconomic planning is the guidance of changing unemployment patterns towards desired goals, (2) Manpower planning should be closely…

A supplement to the report on adjustment to technological change, the document reviews policies of recent years related to adjustment to technological change and the added implications of the Blair and Fechter studies ("Mechanisms for Aiding Worker Adjustment to Technological Change" by Larry M. Blair and "Forecasting the Impact of Technological…

This special report, prepared by manpower and economic experts, details the employment prospects for chemists up to 1985. A demand for chemists equal to the supply is projected, but opportunities in academic institutions will decrease as overall college enrollments drop. (BT)

Julian Josephson finds the environmental employment picture bleak, but far from hopeless. He looks at training and future trends, and lists a number of leads aimed at helping the unemployed. (Author/BT)

This publication is a report in which past trends and events relative to scientific manpower in the form of scientists and engineers are reviewed, the current status of the scientific manpower situation is described, and various assessments of possible future situations are compared. Within the last 25 years the situation has changed from one in…

A conceptual and methematical model was developed to study the preparation of persons holding Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees and to discover the proportion of them who assume academic positions. Data were collected on the number of US and foreign engineering students enrolled, degrees granted, and their employment in academic,…

One of the responsibilities of the Utah Department of Employment Security is the development and dissemination of information concerning occupational manpower requirements. Highlighted in this document are the occupational employment data for employees in Utah's nonagricultural payrolls. Data entered on an occupational industry matrix obtained…

The author discusses demographic, political, and developmental factors influencing the employment of counselors in the next decade. He concludes that there is reason to expect healthy growth in counselor employment, primarily in schools but also in public and voluntary agencies. This growth should require the training of at least 50,000 new…

This annotated bibliography on manpower planning and utilization covers materials received in the U. S. Civil Service Commission Library from 1968 through 1970. References are listed in sections by subject, such as manpower forecasting, policies and methods, planning, utilization, shortages, changes, jobs, and skills. No indexes are provided. (MF)

Five conference papers covering research studies and problems related to effective utilization of manpower in southern California are presented. "The Impact of Technological Change on Employees in the Southern California Aerospace Industry," by Paul Prasow, reports a longitudinal study of social and psychological adjustment factors…

This study of skill transferability between missile production and nondefense industries provides the necessary data to help formulate retraining and other programs designed to help workers adjust to cutbacks in defense spending. This technical appendix to the project report contains the data upon which the report's conclusions are based. The…

This study evaluated short-term manpower projection methods for the personal services and medical and other health services industries. An employer benchmark survey was used to estimate actual employment of cosmetologists, barbers, registered nurses, and licensed vocational nurses. Out of seven projection methods which were applied to the data,…

Describes various energy-related projects and legislation, with new job estimates, to improve or design buildings and methods to reduce the annual growth in energy consumption by reducing gasoline consumption, cutting oil imports, increasing coal production, insulating buildings, and installing solar energy devices. (MF)