A METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING VOCATIONAL SKILLS REQUIRED FOR MACHINE TRADES WAS REPORTED. STANDARDIZED PROCEDURES FOR IDENTIFYING SKILLS AND FOR ANALYZING VOCATIONAL CONTENT INFORMATION WERE DEVELOPED FOR APPLICATION TO AREAS OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. PROCEDURAL DEVELOPMENTS INCLUDED (1) SKILLS DEFINITION AND SCOPE, (2) A LITERATURE SEARCH, (3) METHOD…

As more colleges engage legal counsel, there is a growing need to clarify the relationships between the legal counselor and the college board so that each can fulfill the expectations of the other. This article presents a model job description for the collegiate legal counselor. It also presents a checklist approach to board evaluation of their…

Reports on efforts by the Institute for the Certification of Engineering Technicians and the Engineering Technologists Certification Institute to construct job task inventories for all major fields of engineering technician/technologist occupations. (CP)

The study compared observed social interactions of nonhandicapped employees (N=8) in seven different competitive employment sites with employers' stated expectations for social behaviors. Curriculum implications for transitioning youths and adults with handicaps, particularly mental handicaps, are discussed. (Author/DB)

A project requiring undergraduate students to prepare job analyses and use them to develop other personnel procedures is described. The project requires analysis of a job, preparation of task statements, and description of requisite abilities for that job. Discusses positive feedback from students and provides recommendations for instructors.…

Discusses the history of occupational analysis, its decline as a teaching tool, and the increased complexity of commercial materials used for occupational analysis. (JOW)

A sample of 32 elementary and 11 high school full-time principals selected from 5 central Illinois counties documented their daily activities during a 4-week period. School management was the primary focus of 62 percent of the elementary and 53 percent of the high school principals. (5 references) (MLF)

Summarizes the methodology and products of the American Society for Training and Development-sponsored study to define excellence in training and development (T&D). These include a human resource wheel, future influences on the field, lists of roles and outcomes in T&D, a competency model, role profiles and clusters, and a matrix of roles…

Defines the principal role and global function of public relations practitioners as perceived by the most senior communications executives in agencies or corporations in central United States. (PD)

Employees are likely to see factors other than job difficulty, value, and going wage rate as important in reclassification processes. Author examines these factors, and suggests that employee's understanding of and participation in evaluation process can lead to greater job satisfaction. (RW)

Jobs are evaluated to provide a fair basis for payment of wages; this procedure must be communicated to employees so they can see they are being treated equitably. Job ranking, grading or job classification, factor comparison, the point method, and direct pricing are methods used in job evaluation programs. (AG)

Through the implementation of the Word Processing/Administrative Support Movement, the use of production and quality controls, together with the development of a performance measurement system using MTM-Standard Data, secretarial performance can be increased to up to ten times that of the traditional seccretary. (KP)

Advertising in the school newspaper notifies every student of the opportunity to participate in school publications. (RB)

Reports on a study made to develop a conceptual framework regarding the actual and desired roles of full-time audiovisual building-level coordinators in selected schools on Long Island, New York." (Author)

The systems approach to training has generally been applied to short-cycle, operative craft skills tasks. The system is more difficult to apply to complex, non-reptitive supervisory and managerial skills without considerable cost. This article reports the first part of a study to try to overcome this problem. (SE)