This annual summary provides information about research programs which have been developed and administered by the Office of Manpower Research to June 30, 1969. The first section contains data about all projects in progress at the end of the 1969 fiscal year. Section 2 contains brief summaries of research projects completed during the year and…

An annotated listing of staff training materials for the Individualized Manpower Training System is given in this catalog. Included for each listing are descriptions, sources, uses, and prices for the material. (WH)

This booklet describes three legislative bills to reform existing federal manpower programs. The proposals share an emphasis on a single comprehensive manpower program for the disadvantaged, using state and local planning of flexible programs to meet local needs. A combination of the three proposals is recommended. (BH)

A conference was held to discuss the problems of the hard-core unemployed. The purpose of the conference was to spread the experience of the five Human Resources Development programs with special emphasis on Houston's success in the Outreach phase and to stimulate representatives from 12 southern states to promote HRD programs in their areas.…

This register lists and classifies current and recently completed projects in industrial training, and indicates the range of research in the training and closely related fields. The register is restricted to work undertaken in England. Each research project appears in the register under one or more of the following 10 schedules: General, National…

This document examines the efforts made by American business to make employment opportunities available to the disadvantaged minority worker. Ten major areas are discussed, including the following: changing social attitudes, Negro work attitudes, patterns for disadvantaged programs, management views of hard-core hiring, testing the disadvantaged,…

The report explores extent, availability, and cost of basic and remedial education services in Department of Labor manpower training programs. It discusses factors in the decision to provide basic education, types of organizations providing basic education, schedules and linkages with skill training providing basic education tailored to specific…

The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) held the first national Conference on New Directions-New Programs-New Professions in Washington, D.C. on October 10-13, 1971. The goals of the conference were twofold: (1) to exchange information between representatives of AASCU institutions, officials of Federal government…

The report describes a 2-year project that tested new approaches to helping workers better their lives and promote their careers by advancing their education. Through the cooperative efforts of industrial management and labor unions in Middlesex County in New Jersey, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Industry, with the assistance of the Labor…

The findings of "A Task Analysis of Library Jobs in the State of Illinois" (ED 040723), the SERD Report (Social, Educational Research and Development, Inc.), are evaluated and applied to academic libraries in this study. The tasks are grouped by function and by training time order, and then arranged in task clusters by performance level.…

As an appendix to a conference report on media and the Manpower Development Training Act, this volume includes the following items: (1) letter of invitation, (2) list of participants, (3) agenda, (4) annotated bibliography on instructional media and vocational education, (5) letter of invitation to commercial media producers, (6) bibliography of…

The model presented is an attempt to answer two questions--"Why should a company invest in the development of human resources?" and "How is it accomplished?" (Author/LH)

The author defines the concept of lifelong education. He relates lifelong education to five social features: social change, the world of work, demography, control, and the mode of delivery. (CH)

If training is to make a real difference in the organization, we need an alternative to the vacuum of performance. A view exists that springs from two fundamental premises: (1) every individual operates in the context of a performance system and (2) improvements in performance will occur only if we understand the variables in that system. (JOW)

Describes resources that trainers can use to tap into both academic and street knowledge about training and human resource development (HRD). Includes information about books, journals, professional associations, seminars, and online databases. (JOW)