The business world now offers careers for writers in internal/external communications and technical documentation. Although some people work in both areas, most writers will choose one or the other, depending upon their backgrounds, skills, and interests. Technical writers may write detailed instructions for installing, assembling, testing,…

Chairmen at 38 state and land-grant institutions were found to be involved in three major roles: academic (duties of student involvement and research), which they enjoy; administrative, which requires the majority of time and is less desirable; and leadership (related to academic personnel and program development), which is a major satisfaction.…

The President of the University of Illinois outlines what a university president expects from a university attorney: He should be a major university officer contributing much more than legal expertise, a legal administrator dealing equally with prevention of litigation and conduct of it, and an orchestrator of legal resources. (JT)

An objective, measure-oriented job performance appraisal plan permits management to evaluate worker performance more accurately and precisely, and provides a means for assessing the degree-of-match between employee qualifications and job skills requirements for hiring, advancement, and dismissal decisions. Deficient appraisals may be costly,…

This matrix and these word lists are intended for use as a practical working tool in the area of competency-based curriculum. In the curriculum terminology matrix, inclusions are primarily concepts critical to curriculum development. The matrix indicates whether terms are found in word lists for Pennsylvania, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland,…

This report summarizes both the findings obtained from an analysis of managerial jobs in courts and the options that exist for future management training of Michigan court personnel. The first section describes the need for and importance of information about managerial jobs in courts. The next section describes the development of the Michigan…

This document is an inventory of skills identified as necessary by professionals and technicians in the computer industry who supervise computer programming. It is intended as a mechanism whereby educators can compare that which they teach against what industry feels is relevant. Introductory material discusses the process of the occupational…

This handbook is intended to serve as a reference guide to position classification in Employment and Immigration Canada. It is divided into 11 chapters. Chapter 1 explains Canada's current job and wage classification system, which is a direct result of the Canadian government's decision to allow collective bargaining in the public service. Chapter…

This supervisor's guide to writing job training plans for new employees or for staff taking on new assignments covers the benefits to be expected from written training plans, suggests formats for plans, and includes worksheets for general orientation and job training and ideas for overcoming writer's block. Developed at the University of…

This report examines the process of job evaluation as a method of measuring job worth. Latent trait theory is applied to suggest methods of identifying wage bias. The point factor method of job evaluation selects compensable factors and weights them, using regression analysis. This method is used to maximize the prediction of the existing wage…

The administrative and supervisory competencies that a medical technology student should acquire before graduation were investigated. Selected medical technology laboratory supervisors and administrative technologists in the Houston-Galveston, Texas area were surveyed to determine the tasks performed by the medical technology laboratory…

This report demonstrates the feasibility of covering a large number of classes in a single study that has both classification and selection applications. A job analysis of clerical and administrative positions in the Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands was accomplished by means of a single questionnaire comprised of 264 items of the following…

A Specific Aptitude Test Battery (SATB) for Respiratory Therapist was developed by the U.S. Employment Service (USES). The technical adequacy of research, fairness to minorities, and usefulness of the battery to Employment Service staff and employers in selecting individuals for training in respiratory therapist positions were examined. Research…

This manual presents a Task Analysis Process (TAP) designed to provide its users with a method to systematically analyze occupations in terms of tasks and procedural techniques for organizing them and related knowledges into vocational education program curricula. The process is intended for use by secondary and postsecondary schools for designing…

A random selection of superintendents in Texas school districts with student populations of 500 to 50,000 was surveyed and a search made of the literature to determine the desired characteristics of those in the role of assistant superintendent of instruction. The information collected showed preferences concerning the field of specialization,…