Consulting engineering firms constantly are striving to improve their efficiency and increase their productivity. The greatest increases in design productivity can be achieved by more effective project and design management, particularly in the public sector. (Author/MLF)

The article focuses on why the success of career development is largely dependent on the manager knowing how to develop subordinates. This is being accomplished through an advisory system by providing managers multiple leadership/education/training alternatives for specific developmental needs. (Author/BP)

This report describes an analysis of Navy personnel as a subsystem of the Navy, functioning with the overall objective of maintaining Fleet readiness within the constraints of budget and manpower supply limitations. Manpower utilization and management techniques and options were examined and evaluated for their usefulness to an all volunteer Navy…

THE PROBLEMS OF REGULATION AND MAINTENANCE OF HEATING, VENTILATING, AND AIR CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT IN MULTIBUILDING SITUATIONS HAS LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATIC MONITOR AND CONTROL SYSTEM AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY. THE WORK LOAD HAS INCREASED WITH--(1) THE ADDITION OF MORE BUILDINGS, (2) THE INSTALLATION OF MORE COMPLEX SYSTEMS IN EXISTING…

The aim of Project VISION (Vocational Information System Involving Occupational Needs) is the development of a model system of local occupational and employment information involving current and prospective manpower resources and requirements. Discussed in this presentation are the background and environment of the project, and some past, current,…

Presents the conceptualizations (systems analysis) on which a particular task was modeled, details the way in which the theoretical framework was translated into practice, reports briefly on the methodology employed, and demonstrates the success of the analytic tool adopted. (Author/IRT)

Presents a management system that has been found to bridge the gap between culturally different employees and the positions they should come to hold. (Author)

Written for those responsible for designing jobs with career opportunities, this monograph is an outgrowth of the course "A Systems Approach To Task Analysis and Job Design." Major sections of the manual are: (1) Background and How To Read This Monograph, (2) How To Formulate Good Task Statements, (3) What You Can Do With Good Task Statements, (4)…

Functional Job Analysis, a technology of work analysis making it possible to achieve statistical reliability in the definition of basic units of information, clarifies training needs, exposes worker growth as a fundamental purpose of the organization, and is used to design jobs and organize career ladders. (AJ)

This handbook is designed as a guide for nursing supervisors and hospital administrators to help them decrease unnecessary overlap and increase efficiency of nursing staff and related allied health professionals through job analysis. Three chapters and five appendixes are included. Chapter I deals with the meaning of job analysis, qualitative…

Recent proliferation at training and educational programs for paraprofessional and non professionals has occurred without systematic evaluation of systems' utilization of newly trained people. It was the purpose of this study to assess both job functioning and attitudes of paraprofessionals in relation to professionals and the interaction of…

The Federally-sponsored manpower development project is concerned with two major issues: (1) ways to determine what particular services are needed by given clients in manpower programs for the disadvantaged, and (2) ways to organize a manpower program so that each individual receives appropriate services to fulfill individual needs. Following two…

The purpose of the study was to explore the possibility of developing a comprehensive conceptual framework for measuring the costs and benefits of foreign trade to American workers. Foreign trade was conceived of primarily as a number of parts of the dynamic world production-distribution-consumption process rather than as an aggregate exchange of…

The book is concerned with optimum manpower utilization in the private and public sectors and examines a variety of types of organizations. In this guide to structured manpower planning, contents include management and manpower in an era of change; a model of the overall manpower planning and implementation process; case material on technological…

Representatives from all parts of the United States attended a conference designed to: (1) explore ways and means of involving older persons--primarily welfare recipients--as employees, (2) delineate the wide variety of tasks that have been and can be undertaken by older persons, (3) determine the kinds of recruitment, selection, training,…