Reports results of survey of United States online database producers designed to determine number of personnel employed in intellectual production of databases and provide basis for generation of people employed in frequently recurring staff categories. Implications for education based on needs suggested by staffing patterns are examined.…

Presents an occupational classification system derived empirically and based on nine of many dimensions of professionalism. Results indicated the taxonomy represented expectations only to a moderate degree. A reasonable proportion of occupations had attributes closer to occupations in other clusters than to occupations in their own cluster.…

Examined behaviors associated with high-point D scale scores on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for employed males (N=1,829) who completed the test years apart. Ratings of being frequently nervous and a decreased percentage of time sleeping emerged as two stable variables that differed between high D and not high D scores.…

Career government officials are often required to take a course in "applied ethics" in their graduate training. Rather than receiving a moral education that would prepare them to act responsibly in a democracy, however, they learn a peculiar sort of philosophical discourse that allows them to make sophisticated excuses for their actions.…

Investigates relationship between work stability/satisfaction and occupational, learning, and social support orientations of rehabilitation personnel. Employees have occupational characteristics of social, artistic, and investigative profiles. Matching rehabilitative facilities promotes stable and satisfying work situations. Occupational…

Reviews the state of the art of bargaining unit determination. Provides a summary table covering bargaining unit laws and their implementation in the 50 states. (Author)

The social work profession has paid little attention to the role of the income maintenance line worker in the past decade. This service is a necessary component for the social worker and the profession. (Author/LAB)

The Realistic scale of the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) and the Realistic and Social scales of the Self Directed Search successfully differentiated the occupational groups. However, the VPI Social and Enterprising scales did not differentiate between men and women in the same occupation. (Author)

The holding that an employee could pay the equivalent of her union dues to a charity signifies an acceptance of accommodation and tolerance for differing religious practices in a pluralistic society. Available from Tennessee Law Review Association, Inc., 1505 W. Cumberland Ave., Knoxville, TN 37916. (Author/IRT)

Results indicated that good fit between valued self- and job-competencies was related to work satisfaction. (Author/DB)

The nature of the causal relationship between life and job satisfaction in males and females working in a variety of jobs was investigated. Results suggest that the life satisfaction causes job satisfaction hypothesis is more tenable than the reverse. (Author)

The multitrait-multimethod matrix technique was used to help clarify ambiguities regarding concepts of work alienation, job satisfaction, and the relationships between them. The discrimination between alienation and satisfaction measures was no greater than that among satisfaction and among alienation. (Author)

Examines state law and court cases concerning self-dealing and conflict of interest in North Carolina. (IRT)