Trilateral practices, whether mandated or freely allowed, add the consumer constraint concept to the bargaining model. The various practices have been categorized as prebargaining practices, bargaining practices, and postbargaining practices. (Author/IRT)

Examines the background of union security clause (specifically agency shop), analyzes arguments for and against it, details problems remaining after the U.S. Supreme Court's 1977 decision on Abood vs. Detroit Board of Education, and offers some suggestions for the future. (Author/PKP)

Describes the program New York City created for selecting, training, evaluating, and placing managers. (IRT)

Most jurisdictions are drifting toward the private sector presumption of arbitrability. With this drift will come the continual erosion of management prerogatives, authority, and power. (Author/IRT)

Grievance arbitration is "part and parcel" of the collective bargaining process in the public sector in the same manner as it is in the private sector. It furthers the same public policy considerations, and there is no practical alternative. (Author/IRT)

Describes Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) proposed guidelines for laboratories using chemical carcinogens. The guidelines are designed to provide protection for laboratory workers and their environment from exposure to all types of carcinogenic agents. (GA)

Analyses of tasks performed by secretaries in government or government-related agencies in the Washington, D.C., area were made from data collected by interviews on the job. Data include position, title, tenure, previous experience, rating, salary, training, and tasks performed. Implications of the findings will be considered for two- and…

Examines three hypotheses regarding the relative significance public bureaucracies assign to evaluation, examination, and seniority in making promotions. The significant effects of regional differences are of special interest because they indicate the degree to which intraorganizational advancement criteria are ultimately shaped by the…

Home study (correspondence study) is being used in industry and business to improve employee retention and increase job proficiency. (ABM)

Available from: Comparative Administration Research Institute, Kent State University Press, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242. (IRT)

Presents a profile of George Pimentel, the deputy director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). (SL)

The function of Congressional Fellows in shaping federal legislation related to science is described. Recent energy legislation efforts are used as examples. (SL)

Surveys corporate public relations executives for information about their concern for and involvement with employee relations programming in their organizations and analyzes current public relations education as it relates to these findings. Available from: Public Relations Review, Ray Hiebert, Dean, College of Journalism, University of Maryland,…

Reviews the question of damage suits in public employee strikes from a management perspective and through review of court cases. Includes discussion of the right to sue and the theories of recovery. The public may successfully sue for damages from unlawful public employee strikes. (MD)

Data from five separate samples were weighted using the vertical percent method (England) and the rare response method (Telenson, Alexander, and Barrett) to investigate their relative effectiveness for scoring biographical information blanks. Vertical percent scoring yielded significant validity coefficients for all samples, while rare response…