The concept of the physician's assistant has become a topic of heightened concern and discussion as illustrated by the papers in this publication which reflect the interests of government, allied medical educators, and organized medicine in developing the concept as a new health manpower resource. Papers are: (1) "The Research and Development…

The Postal Academy program was designed in late 1969 to provide basic education skills and job opportunities for disadvantaged school dropouts and to give educational help to postal employees who were unable to qualify for advancement. To determine the effectiveness of the program, this study sought to: (1) identify changes in the students'…

In recent years the Norwegian manpower authorities have recognized the need for reevaluating and reformulating their objectives and functions and the scope of their activities. Problem areas have been identified and steps undertaken to implement recommended solutions. Efforts have been made to improve labor force participation rates, provide labor…

This monograph is the third in a series summarizing the work progress of the Human Services Manpower Career Center, a special research and development project funded by the U. S. Department of Labor. This volume offers a core curriculum for the training of workers in state human services agencies, geared primarily to the use of the community…

This guide contains an introduction to and the materials for use in the Local Office Decision-Making and Implementation (LODI) Workshop, a self-managed small group workshop designed to teach planning and management techniques for identifying and resolving priority needs of an agency's program. (A "need" is defined as the difference…

The place of postgraduate studies is discussed, with reference to the need to produce highly-trained, high-quality personnel capable of making a unique contribution to the development of a country's resources. The postgraduate system in Argentina is described, and some suggestions are made for its future development. (Author/LBH)

There are large groups of people in this country who want to work, but cannot get useful jobs, because they are undereducated, unskilled, considered too young or to old, or are subject to discrimination. The Committee for Economic Development (CED) has been examining the problem and in a new report has called for a broad set of private and public…

The authors report on their informal survey of several companies to determine industry methods of selecting participants for inservice training. Of the approaches described, the assessment center method seems to offer the greatest potential for use in teacher education as a student development tool. (MF)

Focusing on problems that relate to vocational training, skills development, and the formation of work attitudes, the author traces the historical developments of training programs in Canada and the relationship of achievement to reward by using comparative data from West Germany. (BM)

Emphasizing five variables of particular importance to vocational education, the article describes the youth unemployment problem, what is currently being done to combat it, what vocational education can do to help, and what the government can do to help. (BM)

Proves that the same single-period structure in relationships among schooling, experience, and earnings can have sharply contrasting meanings for life cycle patterns. Returns on investment in human resources, productivity, and higher education depend on the static or dynamic nature of society, not on the society's wealth or poverty. Includes three…

Outlines a methodology that enables managers to translate the basic principles of human resource strategy into pragmatic and concrete action programs. The methodology includes providing framework for strategic decision making; ensuring linkage between corporate, business, and human resource strategies; conducting audit of the human resource…

Bureau of Labor Statistics projections show 21 million new jobs over the 1986-2000 period. Most new jobs will be in the service-producing industries. The Black and Hispanic labor force is estimated to increase much faster than that of whites. These projections have several important implications. (CH)

According to Bureau of Labor Statistics projections, there will be 139 million persons in the labor force in the year 2000; this represents a slowdown in the growth rate afer 1986. Minority groups are expected to increase their representation in the labor pool. (CH)