Discusses the Intergovernmental Personnel Act by which federal agencies are helping to ease the oversupply of college staff in many disciplines by temporarily hiring selected faculty members. (SJL)

Discusses a study of the effects of work and expanded employee participation in decision making on four employee outcomes: alienation, job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and commitment. (Author/JOW)

Examined the degree to which salary satisfaction can be predicted using company-maintained information. Studying managerial, professional, and technical employees, results suggest that without inclusion of a variety of employee perceptions, only a small proportion of pay satisfaction could be accounted for, with salary and sex as primary objective…

Presents data collected concerning concepts and skills which should be emphasized in the general academic curriculum and in the industrial technology curriculum, recommended minor fields of study for industrial technology majors, characteristics of successful employees, and present and future professional industrial employment needs in the…

Describes and evaluates a training program entitled PASSAGES which addresses the need for employee career planning. Implications of the program for business and industry are discussed. (RC)

The articles focus on building interpersonal skills utilizing experiential training to socialize new employees and develop leadership. They also focus on training decision makers, performance appraisal, career development, mobilizing human resources and ego stages in organizational development. (CMG)

Identifies the quitting and replacement patterns of some occupations in a state civil service in order to examine the relevance both of structural limits on advancement opportunity and of worker characteristics on such patterns and the long-term effects of such patterns on the distribution of men and women. (Author)

Examines how welfare workers in one county view separation of services in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program in a public welfare agency. Analyzes how workers perceive the quality of their interactions with clients and the clients' satisfaction with services. (Author)

Reports the results of a survey on career development services taken of the civil service systems of the 50 state and 50 largest city systems. Characteristics of providers, the extent of services offered, the length of time offered, and the target of the services are reported. (Author)

The basic proposition of Lawler's model explains only a moderate amount of pay satisfaction. Dyer and Theriault add pay administration variables to Lawler's model. This expanded model accounts for more pay satisfaction variance and predicts consequences, i.e., turnover, absenteeism and pro-union attitudes, of pay dissatisfaction. (Author)

Examines two questions: What general consequences would follow from requiring state and local governments to recognize unions of public employees and to bargain collectively with them? What particular consequences would flow from administering this system through the national government? (Author/IRT)

A group of 250 early retirees and a similar group of 422 nonretired Michigan Civil Service employees were compared. Demographic, health, and income variables accounted for approximately three times as much variance in the retirement status variable as did the motivational and attitudinal variables. (Author)

Although the courts have established that there are several ways of determining adverse impact of hiring practices, the criteria the courts have used to consider cases seem to be primarily the source, scope, and sufficiency of statistics offered as evidence. (Author/IRT)

Thirty-two legislative issues that public institutions should address while devising their legislative programs or reviewing a proposed public employees' collective bargaining bill are presented. The article concludes with a brief discussion of administrative rule-making and other alternatives to legislative treatment of these issues. (LBH)

Reports a survey to determine practices among metalworking firms in Minnesota covering such topics as whether or not the company had a formal or informal job posting system, the actual mechanics of the system, union influence on its design, feedback to unsuccessful job bidders, and current employee acceptance of the system. Recommendations are…