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Zimmerman, T. F.; Crnic, Carol A. – 1968
The objective of this inventory was to provide basic data concerning the effectiveness of new health manpower training programs for comparison with future studies and documented information, for planning purposes. It was necessary to define the components of the health manpower training network and to identify individuals responsible for its…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Educational Programs, Educational Resources, Health Occupations
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Cowen, Emory L.; And Others – Journal of School Psychology, 1971
This paper considers differential patterns of program utilization and the overall potential of the helping model for bringing needed services to otherwise unreached, maladapting school children. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Labor Needs, Labor Utilization, Mental Health Programs
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Mills, Ted – Monthly Labor Review, 1976
An 18-month quality-of-working-life experiment in an underground coal mine was conducted using autonomous work groups. Increased production, motivation, and safety resulted, but discontent was created among other workers at the mine. (TA)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Employee Attitudes, Experimental Programs, Job Satisfaction
Yaney, Joseph P.; Roderick, Roger D. – 1974
A study of participation in training had as subjects black and white employees who were 17-24 years of age, not enrolled in school from 1966 to 1969, and who received company-sponsored training. Most of the employees were in lower socio-economic status jobs. Some 19% of the black youths received some pretraining, while approximately 10% of the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Industrial Training
Broughton, Frank; Reinish, Hal – 1972
A Neighborhood Youth Corps trainee orientation program was developed in order to prevent early dropout from training caused by a new trainee's lack of information about job training and its concomitant problems. Orientation sessions used group techniques, role playing, audiovisual aids, and field trips to give the trainee a clearer picture of the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Career Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Chin, Robert; And Others
This study of company programs to employ disadvantaged and minority people is based on the observations of the investigators and on interviews and questionnaire data obtained from the management and employees of two types of business, service and manufacturing. It examines the ways in which organizational processes, organizational relationships,…
Descriptors: Business, Case Studies, Disadvantaged, Employee Attitudes
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Human Resources. – 1978
The complete texts of testimony and statements from the February and March, 1978, Hearings before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Poverty, and Migratory Labor regarding the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Amendments of 1978 are presented in this document. (Hearing sites included Grand Rapids and Detroit, Michigan, Madison,…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Employment Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Div. of Behavioral Sciences. – 1974
The report provides an assessment of the six Experimental Manpower Laboratories set up by the Manpower Administration to engage in long-term research concerned with developing improved manpower service-delivery systems. An advisory committee under the auspices of the National Research Council was established to conduct the assessment. The six…
Descriptors: Administration, Correctional Rehabilitation, Disadvantaged, Industrial Training
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1972
This study was conducted to assess the results of institutional manpower training in South Carolina conducted under the Manpower Development and Training Act at two skills centers, at 10 state instructional centers, and at public and private facilities throughout the state. The study found that about 72 percent of 9,800 trainees graduated, and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Disadvantaged, Federal Programs, Labor Force Development
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1976
A report from the United States General Accounting Office regarding the Army's skill training program for enlisted personnel is presented. The Army develops its training program twice a year, determining training requirements for the following year through personnel inventory, analysis model, and manpower program data. These methods were found not…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Needs, Job Training
Florida State Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Tallahassee. – 1972
This report is a summary of a project utilizing subprofessionals in the field of social work. Conducted in the Jacksonville, Florida area in 1968, the project demonstrated that subprofessionals could successfully perform a wide variety of tasks formerly assigned to social workers. Although early resistance on the part of social workers was…
Descriptors: Community Services, Demonstration Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Job Training
Baum, John Franklin – 1973
This study is directed to the question of whether an intervention strategy based on relatively concentrated amounts of basic education and on-the-job training is sufficient to make it possible for a large, non-union, private firm to assimilate disadvantaged females into its regular, blue-collar work force. It is concluded that the National…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employed Women, Employment Programs, Failure
Army Research Inst. for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Arlington, VA. – 1977
The effect of varying the percentages of female soldiers assigned to representative types of Test, Operation, and Evaluation units on the unit's capability to perform its mission under field conditions was assessed. Empirical data were provided to test the null hypothesis that increasing the proportion of women in selected units would not impair…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Data Analysis, Females, Field Studies
Leslie (C.E.) and Associates, Glen Head, NY. – 1972
In order to develop an understanding of vocational education personnel development and to explore the management of change as related to implementation and improvement of the system, 228 vocational educators and leaders in industry at a 2-day national summer workshop sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education agreed on the need for a comprehensive,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Change Agents, Educational Needs, Labor Force Development
Berry, Dale W.; Van Dresser, Steven L. – 1972
This is Volume I of a 2-volume report which constitutes a national evaluation of manpower services being provided to veterans primarily through the nationwide network of employment service agencies. It assesses and analyzes the nature and extent of manpower services available to veterans, the relevance and quality of the services, the…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Federal Programs, Labor Force Development, Labor Utilization
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