This is a comparative study of inter-organizational relations of manpower agencies in Cleveland, Philadelphia, and New York City. It analyzes how the political setting of cities affects the organizational design and relations of manpower agencies, and how this, in turn, affects agency performance. Specifically, it analyzes the conditions under…

The answers from 247 questionnaires from managers of 27 corporations, divided between the eastern and western United States, were analyzed to determine those college and university courses which business and industry feel would contribute most to the future managerial success of a person graduating from college and starting a career as a…

The available evidence suggests the MDTA-Institutional program should be revamped with more reliance on the private sector for production and delivery of institutional training. In his review of eleven studies of Federal manpower programs, O'Neill finds that the MDTA-Institutional program, the oldest of the Federal training approaches, has…

This collection of articles brings together the historical, statistical, and factual data needed to lend perspective to the attempt to understand the past and foresee the future of educational media. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, the Yearbook stresses the need for cooperation…

Services provided by the Rural Manpower Service to 23 Michigan counties were described in this report. Services included those provided by the special projects, Operation Hitchhike and the Mobility Facilitator Unit. Major topics were program highlights, public relations, wages and earnings, rural manpower services, major crops, and employment and…

A common dilemma faces libraries of all types--discovering and managing manpower resources effectively. With librarianship increasingly becoming a service-oriented profession, manpower is the most essential resource. Staff development and continuing education offer partial promise of solution, but evidence of the efforts presently underway is not…

This is the final report for a three-year contract in health manpower development. The contract, awarded to Howard University in 1969, was actuated in January 1969 and extended to August 1972. The contract period has been marked by a large variety of progressive activity and creation of programs. These include the development of an attractive…

As the sixth publication in the series issued by the Engineering Manpower Commission of Engineers Joint Council, the report on engineering and technology enrollments is presented for the purpose of illustrating the actual class standings as of Fall 1972. In engineering survey results, 68 tables are generated from responses submitted by 283…

An exploratory examination of the professional, technical, and clerical manpower needs of Alaskan regional and village corporations established under the Native Land Claims Settlement Act, this report recognized that critical staffing needs can only be met by carefully designed educational and training programs. The staffing demand analyses were,…

The Community Mental Health Workers Project is a 5-year community-based staff-demonstration study designed to develop, train, utilize, compare, and evaluate the effectiveness of three new types of middle level workers for community mental health programs. The three levels of workers are classified as: (1) an aide who will be an indigenous member…

Hoping to clarify partially some of the questions relating to talent development, occupational allocation, adaptability of workers, training of workers, worker satisfactions and performance, a search of related literature was conducted by dividing the material into five major categories: (1) technology, (2) organizational structure, (3)…

The objective of putting together this collection of readings are: (1) to organize the many diverse changes in the human resource development field, (2) to establish links between new and old trends in this field, (3) to choose areas that are on the "cutting edge" of human resource development, and (4) to present different points of view about the…

This book is intended to provide an exposition of the economic approach to educational issues for (1) economics students interested in social economics or public expenditures analysis, (2) other social scientists who require an understanding of the economic issues in education, and (3) educators and administrators who are confronted with economic…

This study was undertaken to provide suggestions for developing an optimum system of training in the apprenticeable trades. Data were obtained from personal interviews and from roughly 9,000 questionnaires which were returned by apprentices, journeymen, instructors, employers, union officials, teacher educators, counselors, training coordinators,…

This volume is an appendix to "Educational and Training Adjustments in Selected Apprenticeable Trades, Volume I" (VT 012 012). (BH)