This booklet contains 10 job descriptions formulated from an analysis of the job performance of 684 workers in Texas day care centers. Five of the job descriptions are teaching positions while the other five are considered administrative. Each of the job descriptions, as well as the career progression and individual training records, are defined…

This study was undertaken to identify occupational areas in the horticultural industry and to identify, describe, and categorize the mental and physical skills needed by workers in horticultural occupations. Competency lists were developed for these occupational areas: arborist services, farm and garden supply centers, golf course management,…

The preparation of a job profile is a necessary prerequisite for the design of curriculum in postsecondary vocational courses. A complete job profile has the following four components: environmental and organizational orientation to the job, essential knowledge, essential skills, and desirable personal qualities. (Author/BP)

Arguing that the personnel manager will increasingly have to become a change agent and process consultant, the author discusses tasks involved and skills required for the new role. A shift in focus toward top management as the primary client and utilization of more flexible intervention into organizational processes are predicted. (JT)

A college dean surveys possible effects of collective bargaining in terms of administrator role change; faculty evaluation and rewards; use of faculty competition for teaching, research, and community service; transfer of power to younger faculty; rejection of research as advancement criteria; intensification of tenure and fiscal problems. (JT)

Media specialist competencies developed by the Alabama Commission for the Preparation of Educational Media Personnel are outlined under six major categories: instruction, management, organization and circulation, design and preparation, selection and acquisition systems, and pacesetting and innovative instructional systems. (JT)

Noting the need to define the terms used for policies which are changing the role of admissions offices, the author defines "open admissions" as "universal opportunity for post-secondary schooling" and points out changes in the core tasks of recruiting, selecting, counseling, and management of student records and data. (JT)

The role and needed skills of the academic department chairman are examined: (1) planning, (2) communicating, representing, negotiating, coordinating, and facilitating functions, (3) problem solving (including committee selection), and (4) organizing and administering (including schedules and recruitment, faculty involvement, and staff…

Clarifies the terminology involving the terms "Laboratory Technician,""Laboratory Assistant," and "Laboratory Steward" and describes the effective use of the science technician. Groups the various tasks of the technician and enumerates the duties involved in each group. (GS)

The study aimed at identifying the skills taught in two-year accounting programs compared to tasks performed by program graduates. Findings indicated a strong relationship between training and job tasks and that employment opportunities were available in a variety of work environments. (AC)

The author examines concepts involved in the rapidly developing field of wage and salary administration and discusses means by which the field can be developed into a professional discipline. (TA)

This historical review describes the basic curriculum of the 1890s, the shift to occupational analysis and the cross section approach in the 1920s, a combination of traditional and cross sectional approaches by the 1940s, the effect of the Vocational Education Act of 1963, and the impact of the Perkins Act and the educational reform movements of…

Describes Statistical Work Analysis Teams (S.W.A.T.), which marry the two factors necessary for successful statistical analysis with the personal nature of attribute data into a single effort. Discusses S.W.A.T. project guidelines, implementation of the first S.W.A.T. projects, team training, and project completion. (CT)

Recommends that, when a meaningful principal's job description is lacking, a cooperative approach involving the principal and superintendent or principal's immediate supervisor should be used to produce a mutually agreed-upon document containing tasks, priority rankings, and strategies. Provides method for determining the priority of each task.…

The basic elements of personnel administration are defined and examined and the interaction between the elements are described. The elements include job analysis, job classification, recruitment, selection, induction into the organization, evaluation of job performance, and termination. (MLW)