Five objectives were outlined: to list inactive nurses who are interested in returning to active employment; to determine why they are inactive; to assist them to return to active status; to promote communication between organizations to coordinate efforts; and to review and make recommendations regarding existing refresher courses. A review of…

The primary objective of this project was to focus on rural labor surplus areas in southeastern Iowa, relocating unemployed residents in industrial jobs on Iowa's Mississippi border, Cedar Rapids, and Iowa City. The group was predominantly white and poorly educated. Small rural employment offices communicated job openings and worker qualifications…

This is a collection of estimates, by county, of the unutilized labor due to underemployment in 1960. This technique of determining unemployment uses the national median income adjusted for each country's age-color mix, education status, and an employment factor, to provide a county standard against which the actual county median income can be…

Current work in mathematical modeling for manpower planning and personnel administration is reviewed with special reference to selected cases in the U.S. Navy. This included: (1) assignment models and their dynamic extensions, (2) Stochastic models with special reference to Markoff Processes, including the Office of Civilian Manpower and…

The purpose of the Atlanta Student Manpower Project was to coordinate and report on a variety of efforts that utilized student manpower for community service to effectuate a large scale service-learning program. The major components of the project were: (1) the development and experience of the Atlanta Urban Corps through which 300 students…

To determine if a relatively short training program focusing on interpersonal relationships, communication and observation skills, and knowledge and understanding of behavior would increase the empathic ability of psychiatric aides, 20 black aides of low socioeconomic background were randomly divided into an experimental and control group. The…

This report describes the development of a computerized system to assist Navy personnel managers in carrying out the functions associated with the distribution and assignment of enlisted personnel. This Computer Assisted Distribution and Assignment (CADA) System is aimed at the most efficient interaction between the computer and human manager to…

The duties of supervisors of Air Force reserve personnel are discussed in this handbook. The organization of the Air Force is diagrammed, with duties explained for all administrative personnel. The handbook details the supervisor's responsibilities and tells how to utilize reservists during their tours of duty. This guide also discusses how to…

Volume III of the evaluation of the School Personnel Program (SPU), designed by Florida State University, assesses the impact of program training. Part I reports the extent to which school personnel trained in SPU projects were able to identify a "flexible staffing" approach and to view the flexible staffing approach as a desirable alternative to…

PROGRESS WAS REPORTED ON AN ANALYTICAL SURVEY EFFORT OF THE HISTORICAL IMPLICATIONS OF OCCUPATIONAL CROSSOVER AND MOBILITY BETWEEN MILITARY AND CIVILIAN LIFE. TENTATIVE CONCLUSIONS WERE DRAWN ON THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE U.S. MILITARY SERVICE PROGRAM FOR (1) OFFERING TRAINING IN INTERESTING AND TRANSFERABLE JOB SKILLS AND (2) PROVIDING…

It is suggested that the management and development of human resources in higher education is begging for leadership. That leadership requires complex and special knowledge, strong but harmonious relationships with academic administrators, and a humanistic philosophy that reaches out to people. (LBH)

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)

Pressure to reduce budgets has prompted persons responsible for school maintenance to schedule cleaning some areas on alternate days rather than daily. (MLF)

A performance-oriented program to improve individual employee output. (Author)

Presents a theoretical framework that focuses on the division of labor by gender to account for both sex role stereotypes and the correspondence between these stereotypes and self-concepts of women and men. According to this framework, self-images of adults are largely constituted by attributes generated by their productive activity. (Author/ABB)