Deficiencies in job performance are not always due to a lack of knowledge, but frequently are the result of not knowing proper procedures and methods to get the job done. Recognizing the difference between deficiency in knowledge and deficiency in skills is the key to improving performance without training. (Editor)

A part of the process of managerial problem-solving is search. A number of subjective job characteristics were examined to determine whether they are able to discriminate between managers who engage in a high level of search activity and managers who engage in a low level of search activity. (Author/MLF)

A checklist of tasks for financial aids administrators and college presidents. Major areas for administrators include application processing and award determination, counseling, public relations, transfer programs, management, Business Office cooperation, and professional development. Suggestions for presidents essentially call for executive…

The essays in this book present personal narratives about individual counselors' life experiences that have helped shaped their professional development. The sections are organized around broad themes. Part 1, "Feeling Lost", looks at ways that counselors cope with feeling disoriented, confused, and filled with doubt. Parts 2-4, "Facing Pain and…

To prepare job instructions, these steps are helpful: (1) make a job analysis worksheet, (2) list procedures in steps, (3) list tools, equipment, and materials needed, determine needs for (4) scientific information (5) mathematics knowledge, (6) drawing knowledge, (7) trade terms knowledge, (8) materials knowledge, and (9) safety precaution…

An example of how one clinical nurse specialist functions in her primary role of practitioner and how, despite the role's mobility and lack of structure, she has cultivated the traits and skills needed to be a designer as well as an implementer of care working in a colleague relationship with physicians. (AJ)

Guidelines for establishment of a course or series of meetings to help future college professors understand the responsibilities of the professional in six interrelated areas. (RL)

Discusses the scope of physiology and activities undertaken by physiologists. Indicates that a better understanding of the basic actions of cells and organs is the objective of physiological research. (CC)

Discusses teamwork by engineering technicians and engineers and the role of this collaboration in the world of liquid rocket engine testing. (WM)

This study attempts to determine whether difference in occupational introversion extroversion exist between students from rural and urban environment. Results appear to indicate that such differences do, in fact, exist. (Author)

Results suggested that occupational choices for adolescents were based in part on the degree of positive relationship between their self descriptions and various occupational stereotypes they held. (Author)

The competency pattern and the task analysis are two approaches used to identify content that affects the distributive education curriculum. These and other research tools provide essential information about capabilities required for entrance into and persistence in careers at prescribed levels of distributive jobs. (Author)