This paper explains the process by which Middlesex County College (MCC) translated a taxonomy of the functions of dental x-ray technologists into a curriculum guide for its dental radiography program. After noting the limited use of taxonomies, the paper describes MCC's curriculum project during which: (1) the developing a curriculum (DACUM)…

A study of the job activities, role expectations, and job satisfaction of 452 academic advisors at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) is reported. Jobs include administrative activities and helping students with three problem areas: (1) academic, social or financial, (2) emotional or psychological, (3) academic and career guidance. Most…

Outlines major institutional areas requiring legal services, discusses relationship of attorney to trustees and chief administrator, and lists the alternative means of delivery of legal services and some advantages of each, noting trends toward employment of full-time counsel and the practice of preventive law. (JT)

This manual on occupational analysis, developed in Australia, is organized in three sections. The first section provides a framework for occupational analysis (OA) and a discussion of possible outputs from an OA from each of three phases: (1) determining the nature and scope of the occupational area; (2) developing a competencies list; and (3)…

This national survey collected information on the wage and salary management practices in use in institutions of higher education. The survey questionnaire was distributed to approximately 3,000 institutions of higher education in the United States. Characteristics of the over 800 respondents are analyzed. A section on job analysis practices…

When comparing the DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) and curriculum conference methods of curriculum development, one finds that the product goals of the two methods differ but the process goals are similar. Both seek to generate information from a select group on which to base curriculum development, but the end product of DACUM is a chart that…

A job evaluation system was designed and implemented by a college's personnel department using a "point dash factor" method for evaluating jobs. Employees made the major decision about which criteria should be used to rate job difficulty and how much weight each criterion should carry. Employee input was solicited through committees…

Despite popular beliefs that managers are successful by virtue of their positions, few studies have examined this position-success relationship. A study was conducted to identify the factors of subjective career success and to determine if the patterns of response would differ between managers and support personnel. Moreover, the phenomenon of…

Multiple discriminant analysis was used to analyze the structure of a perceived environmental uncertainty variable employed previously in research on public relations roles. Data came from a subset (N=229) of a national sample of public relations practitioners belonging to the Public Relations Society of America, who completed a set of scaled…

The interaction between personality and social structure is one of the grand themes of both classical and contemporary social science. While different disciplines have addressed this issue from a variety of perspectives, within both sociology and psychology there are long standing research traditions that focus on the relationship between…

A study examined the role of the administrator and the program planner in program development in adult education. To obtain this information, the researcher administered written questionnaires and conducted follow-up interviews with 10 administrators and 10 program planners working in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, metropolitan area. The…

It is hypothesized and found that organizational positions systematically vary in their replacement rates. This variation is directly associated with positional visibility; visibility is also found to relate to salaries and the racial composition of positional occupants. (Author/AJ)

A primary purpose of the present study was to attempt to identify the types of activities actually performed by managers and relate the resulting performance patterns to actual performance evaluations. (Author)

General Educational Development (GED) and Specific Vocational Preparation (SVP) levels are translated into yearly equivalents; variances are derived for the same occupation in different industries and for different occupations in the same industry. Requirement changes in the past decade are estimated and educational attainment is compared to…

A project was undertaken to devise an improved method for determining the workload generated by each direct instructional, instructional-related, and professional-related activity carried out at Colorado State University and the estimated workload expected of each instructional faculty member. These load factors specifically recognize the input…