This panel study examined the determinants of supervisory, employee, and group decision-making in departments or units within a complex organization. Available from: Comparative Administration Research Institute, Kent State University Press, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242. (Author)

Before change occurs in an organization, someone must experience a problem to such an extent that it becomes a felt need and demands some action be taken. (Author/IRT)

Examines the inherent differences between the roles of grievance arbitrator, fact-finder, and interest arbitrator and discusses the skills and insights the interest arbitrator needs to fulfill his role. Available from: Commerce Clearing House, Inc., 4025 West Peterson Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60646. (JG)

Examines the potential impacts of pay on decisions to join organizations; behaviors such as performance and absenteeism levels; and pay satisfaction, dissatisfaction, and decisions to leave organizations. (Author/IRT)

An examination of need-satisfaction models indicates that they are frequently formulated so as to be almost impossible to refute, and the research testing them has been beset with consistency and priming artifacts. (Author/IRT)

Examined work commitment, job satisfaction, and personal characteristics under three career stage operationalizations: age, organizational tenure, and positive tenure. Results from 2200 public agency employees indicated selection of career stage operationalization influenced findings related to organizational commitment and intention to remain;…

Outlines Cornell University's Employee Assistance Education and Research Program, which uses an academic curriculum and field experience to further develop the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) profession. Addresses the dilemma of personnel executives in ensuring quality in EAP programs and staff. (JOW)

Substance abuse among workers and its interference with job performance has remained constant over the past 15 years. Employee assistance programs educate the public, screen referrals, and provide feedback on how employees are progressing. (JOW)

One provision of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 states that when a tenant pays rent that is less than 5 percent of the appraised value of a property, the difference is considered taxable income for the employee. This provision is forcing colleges to reassess their employee housing policies. (MLW)

This issue reviews trends in public sector employment (particularly in the light of government policy to reduce it), wages (in a context of cash limits), and strikes and other forms of industrial action. It also considers recent developments in the structure, organization, and policy of the "actors" in public sector industrial relations.…

The authors critically examine the analysis by Hull, Friedman, and Roger finding that deskilling and heightened alienation are not necessarily the outcomes of increased technology. The authors suggest that the outcome of technological change be approached as an indeterminate process shaped by prevailing relations between workers and management.…

Employed adults were studied with respect to their report of occupational stresses, strains, and coping behaviors using the Occupational Environment Scales. Older repondents reported more overload and responsibility and fewer stresses than did younger respondents. Older respondents also displayed decreasing strain and greater coping resources than…

Employees of 15 organizations (N=8,600) completed questionnaires concerning whistle-blowing. Discriminant analysis revealed that organization members who had observed alleged wrongdoing were more likely to blow the whistle if they had convincing evidence of wrongdoing, if the wrongdoing were serious, and if it directly affected them. (Author/BL)

Examined formal sexual harassment charges (N=81) to identify the characteristics of individuals who file formal sexual harassment charges and describes the behaviors and employment-related consequences associated with such charges. Sex, age, marital status, educational level, occupation, and salary distributions of complainants differed…

Surveyed employees of a comprehensive human services department during a period of budgetary retrenchment to determine whether there were gender-related differences in reported job satisfaction levels or in underlying factors. Human service employees become much more androgynous during times of fiscal hardship. (Author/MCF)