Functional Job Analysis (FJA) is based on the premise that every job requires a worker to function in relation to Things, Data and People (factors) in varying degrees. A level is determined for each of the three areas for each worker function. A measure of emphasis was developed by assigning percentages to weight each factor. The level at which a…

Conducted at the request of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education, this study inquired into the attitudes of university graduates and technical college diploma holders toward the training they had received; the relevance of training to the work expected of them; and how employers felt about the graduates whom they employed. The…

The annotated bibliography was prepared to alert educators to literature discussing women in the world of work. It contains 32 documents, announced in Research in Education (RIE), selected by means of a computer search using one of the descriptors Females, Housewives, Mothers, Working Parents or Working Women plus a second major descriptor from a…

The Committee on the Status of Professional Women at Yale was charged by the University's President "to review the present participation of women in teaching and administration at Yale, to explore ways of increasing the participation of women under existing policies, and to suggest revisions in existing policies and procedures in order to…

This booklet has been designed by the National Education Association to provide members of the united teaching profession and new entrants into the field with general information on how to find and apply for educational positions. The contents cover the basic steps of job hunting from compiling resume and references to locating vacancies, applying…

In their annual employment reports of 1972, the 609 commercial television stations included in this study reported that 10 percent of their 39,071 full time employees were drawn from members of minority groups, a slight increase from the nine percent reported in 1971. The proportion of women employees (22 percent) did not change between 1971 and…

Author recounted her experiences as a student at Wellesley College, her employment experiences, and her feelings as a wife. These were considered versus the prejudices of her fellow students, her fellow workers, and her employers. (RK)

Noting that large numbers of business graduates are seeking employment in college business offices, the authors outline a systems approach to employment and training which includes recruitment, interview and selection, orientation and training, placement and post-training, and the fusion process. Emphasis is on individual and organizational…

Indicates that the antinepotism rules that existed in the past are still maintained by communication/journalism department administrators. Reports on what those administrators see as the advantages and disadvantages of hiring a qualified professional couple for two job openings. (RL)

Offers suggestions to prospective applicants for community college president positions on revising vitae to fit institution's desires, how to handle screening committee and board of trustee interviews, how to assess the nature of the college's organizational structure, and where to secure more information about the institution. (MB)

The empirical analysis of this study shows that there are some increases in employment of Blacks in all skilled occupations and a decline in the unskilled occupations. In both the period before the Fair Employment Practice Laws and after, the change in the racial entropy index increases at decreasing rates. (Author/AM)

This research sought to attain a description of those women educators in Illinois who constitute a pool from which potential administrators might logically be drawn and to generate basic information on variables associated with the low incidence of women administrators, i.e., aspiration for administrative position, position-seeking assertiveness,…

A survey of 483 professors, three from each of 161 colleges and universities, shows that nearly 40 percent of the participants did not think that promotion policy was usually observed in practice. Many acknowledged a lack of professionalism in performance evaluations. (LBH)

Recent court cases have continued to support the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's employee selection guidelines. The EEOC Guidelines provisions upheld in "Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody" are compared with the APA Test Standards and with APA Division 14's Personnel Selection Principles, and implications for employment testing are…

Team teaching is seen as a device by which school administrators share responsibility with team leaders for major schoolwide plans and decisions, and thus no longer appear solely responsible for a situation (control of the educational work force) which they cannot control. (MJB)