In this article, we revive work redesign theory, specifically Hackman and Oldham's Job Characteristics Model (JCM), to examine distributed leadership initiatives. Based on our early observations of six schools engaged in distributed leadership reform and a broad review of literature, including empirical tests of work redesign theory, we retrofit…

This article describes how job analysis, a method commonly used in personnel research and organizational psychology, provides a systematic method for documenting program staffing and service delivery that can improve evaluators' knowledge about program operations. Job analysis data can be used to increase evaluators' insight into how staffs…

More and more institutions of higher education are hiring sustainability officers to manage and coordinate their sustainability initiatives. To promote greater understanding of this emerging career field, AASHE conducted a survey of campus sustainability officers. The "Higher Education Sustainability Officer Position" and "Salary…

Recruiting and educating international students is a growing characteristic of the landscape of American higher education. "Open Doors 2006" indicated that 564,766 international students were enrolled in American higher education institutions in 2005-06 and that international students currently represent 3.9% of the total enrollment.…

This article suggests that the union learning representative (ULR) is increasingly situated at the heart of trade union activity. The paper draws upon recent research based on interviews with national trade union officers and case studies of union learning activity to explore the competing demands being made upon ULRs and the implications for…

As part of the "face" a university projects to the world, student service staff play a key role in constructing an institution's external identity. Yet, there have been few studies of who are the general staff providing these services, and how they define their role within their institutions. Although there have been several excellent studies…

Compares a successful job classification procedure used to make use of validity generalization findings in new settings with a much simpler holistic judgement approach for accomplishing the same purpose. Results showed that the latter approach was just as effective, but was much less time consuming and costly. (LLL)

A representative of the Royal Air Force School of Education and a Field Training Advisor to the Civil Air Transport Industry Training Board continue the description of their simplified approach to job analysis. (LY)

Using data from managerial jobs, job variables were measured with the Position Classification Inventory and job analysis surveys. Ten judges estimated expected correlations between variables and Holland's vocational environmental constructs. Data were inconsistent only for "Realistic," one of six dimensions of the RIASEC (Realistic,…

In a comparison of the application of the DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) model and the OCAP (Ohio Competency Analysis Profiles) model to entrepreneurship by a panel of experts, the DACUM approach identified 63 more competencies. One reason may be that the OCAP panel was given a predetermined list of competencies from which to work. (SK)

This paper seeks to establish the state of knowledge of Knowledge Management (KM) among Library and Information Services (LIS) professionals, the extent to which they find positions in the KM sector, the extent to which they practise identifiable KM processes in their work and the adequacy of educational preparation and professional development…

This study was concerned with the identification of the job dimension underlying the job elements of the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ), Form B. The PAQ is a structured job analysis instrument consisting of 187 worker-oriented job elements which are divided into six a priori major divisions. The statistical procedure of principal components…

A description of the second phase of a project which attempted to gather task statements and related data about people who were involved in instructional media. (AK)

The increasing need for specialization into today's schools has resulted in an increase in the size of most office staffs. If schools are to get their dollar's worth out of their employees, administrators will have to analyze carefully the function of each person employed. (CK)