Combining the strength of three public employee organizations, National Education Association, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, and the International Association of Fire Fighters, for mutual assistance in the fact of periodic crises. (CB)

The efforts of 11 early governors contributed to the development and improvement of Tennessee education. (NQ)

The purpose of this article is to present some basic insights into the problem of the drug abuse employee and to offer an outline to those responsible for developing policy and supervisory training programs. (Author)

This article reviews New York State's experience with its employee alcoholism program. Methods of training, referral, and success rates are outlined. (Author)

Executive Orders 10800 (1959) and 11315 (1966) on employee career development were followed in 1967 by Presidential Task Force recommendations calling for liberalized opportunities for Federal employee education and for new types of academic programs. Seventeen references. (LY)

Investigated the importance of assigned versus participative goal setting in defining effective supervisory behavior. Government employees (N=57) were assigned to self-set, participatively set, and assigned goal setting conditions. Results showed no significant difference in goal difficulty between those with participatively set goals and self-set…

Examines support for militant action among the employees of a public assistance agency in which negotiations were occurring over a first contract. A questionnaire survey obtained information on whether employees were willing to strike over various issues during negotiations and whether they would participate in certain work actions, such as…

Employers can be subjected to substantial legal responsibilities and liabilities. The employer's obligations to employees; the consequences of mislabeling an employee as a consultant; how to determine who may be a consultant; and criteria for authorizing a consulting position are examined. (MLW)

Results of this study supported the position that higher-order job perceptions and job satisfaction are reciprocally and dynamically related, where variables representing one construct reflect causal influences of the other construct. While the job perception-job satisfaction relationship appeared to be reciprocal, it did not appear to be…

Discusses the results of a survey of the policies companies have adopted to protect confidential employee data and the findings of the U.S. Privacy Protection Study Commission. (Author/IRT)

Examines how first-level supervisors identify and manage marginal employees. Suggests that the appropriate use of sanctions may be perceived by employees as legitimate and may be conducive to the development of productive group norms. (Author/IRT)

Repeal of the Hatch Act would worsen inflation and make effective controls over government much more difficult to achieve. Repeal of the Hatch Act would serve the interests of no one except those who seek to gain increasing political power at the expense of the general public. (Author/IRT)

Analyzes J. Pisapia's "The Open Bargaining Model" and indicates its utility in reviewing recent developments in California where "bargaining models" have been the subject of intense experimentation with public sector employees. (Author/MLF)

Offers arguments for teacher unions and collective bargaining in education. (IRT)