The problems in measuring the economic value of the homemaker's job are examined. They include the complexity of components of the job, variations in the workload, and tools of measurement and valuation. (CT)

The Uniform Guidelines for Employee Selection Procedures created a need for efficient validation methods that can be generalized to a class of occupations. One method currently authorized by the Guidelines is synthetic validation. Describes approaches to synthetic validity. Recommends Primoff's J-Coefficient approach. (Author/JAC)

The New Jersey Education Association analyzes the job description provision in the state's new teacher evaluation regulations and presents a suggested job description for New Jersey's tenured teachers. (SJL)

Analyses of General Educational Development (GED) ratings of U.S. jobs illustrate the estimation of components of variance and covariance, univariate nd multivariate generalizability coefficients, and canonical coefficients. GED scales, ranging from one to six points, measure reasoning, mathematics, and language abilities needed to perform various…

The purpose of this article is to forecast the demand/supply situation for analytical chemists through the 1980s and to report various suggestions from analytical chemistry professors responding to a Procter and Gamble survey for increasing the supply of chemistry students entering graduate school. (Author/CO)

Sociometric analysis, using job similarity, task influence, and work interaction instruments, can be used to collect and feed back information for better understanding of the functioning of specific organizations. (JD)

Looks at four kinds of job evaluation and examines them in light of the concept of comparable worth that may be adopted by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Provides some guidelines for improving evaluation systems. (IRT)

A model to guide the search for types of performance deficiencies is set forth within the general framework of systems theory. Five types of problems, singly or in combination, are discussed as causes of deficiencies. (Author)

Both terrors and pleasures of college teaching come from the teacher's relationship to time, fluid and structured. Teachers sometimes linger over preparation because they find there a major satisfaction of their work: time to read, think, and prepare for conveying their knowledge to students. The evanescence of the work itself and the permanence…

Describes an activity-based formula developed to comply with a judicial mandate that standards for specialized and mixed caseloads be established. Discusses considerations involved in determining maximum caseload size, approaches used, formulas which have evolved, and circumstances in which the activity-based method works best. (NH)

Examines the job content of preservation librarianship as evidenced in job advertisements. The findings indicate that preservation librarians function in a largely administrative role, possess the Master of Library Science degree in many cases, and are paid below the average salary for functional and subject specialists and department heads. A…

A survey of physicians teaching in British Columbia's one medical school found 20 percent of the province's physicians were involved with the school in some way, most with largely non-academic ("clinical") careers. Full-time faculty worked 20 percent more hours than their clinical counterparts. Two-thirds may have full-time clinical…

The article describes an assessment model, developed by Project CO-OP at the University of Virginia, with strategies for conducting community assessment, trainee (moderately to profoundly handicapped) skill assessment, and job-trainee matches. Procedures exemplify methods for systematically collecting and analyzing information to facilitate…

Issues of maintaining equity of classification and salary for library assistants across a university library system and in relation to other university departments are addressed. A 1989 job analysis of library assistant positions at the University of Utah resulted in the reclassification of positions and an increase in salary implemented over two…

Suggests that the main reason for the presumed surplus of librarians is that these professionals refuse to defend, let alone expand, their territorial boundaries from "experts" who decide results independently of library staffs and budgets. Argues that librarians should provide better service, rather than encouraging self-service and that certain…