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Haack, Peggy – 2001
Built on the premise that good school-age care jobs are the cornerstone of high-quality services for school-age youth and their families, this guide presents model work standards for school-age care providers. The guide begins with a description of the strengths and challenges of the school-age care profession. The model work standards are…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care, Elementary Education, Occupational Information
Fornes, Sandra – Online Submission, 2006
This structured literature review examines the literature and addresses issues of job retention for adult workers with moderate to mild mental retardation (MR), investigating the relationships between work-related social behaviors, self-determination, person-job congruency of individuals with MR, and their job performance and job satisfaction with…
Descriptors: Mild Mental Retardation, Job Satisfaction, Labor Force Development, Job Performance
Professional Secretaries International, Kansas City, MO. – 1993
A survey of 2,700 of the 27,000 members of Professional Secretaries International received 755 responses yielding the following profile of secretarial workers: (1) the average member is female, about 45 years old, married with no dependents living at home, and owns a single-family home in the suburbs; (2) most respondents have worked in office or…
Descriptors: Adults, Demography, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Qualifications
Sproul, Kate – 1999
More women were elected to the California Legislature in November 1998 than ever before. Twenty-five percent of the 40 state senators who began the two-year legislative session on December 7, 1998 were women. In the 80-seat Assembly, the figure also was 25 percent. Historically, the number of women serving in the California Legislature was…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Females, Inservice Teacher Education
Alvarez, Benjamin; Majmudar, Juliet – 2001
The argument presented in this paper is that teachers are the fundamental engine for enacting long-term change in education, and that their professional development is indispensable for obtaining the expected outcomes in educational systems. The paper presents a brief overview about the primary teachers in Latin America and identifies the…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Stevens, Auriol – Times Educational Supplement (London), 1974
Article listed the hazards of working overseas and advised those applying on how to avoid such pitfalls. (RK)
Descriptors: Contracts, Employment Problems, Foreign Countries, Overseas Employment
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Gregorc, Anthony F.; Hendrix, David F. – School Management, 1973
Teachers' needs for successful work completion, recognition by others, responsibility for their own work, and opportunities for change of status or position and for increased responsibilities must be met in order for teachers to be productive and staisfied with their work. (MF)
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Humanization, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Climate
Poujol, Jacques – Francais dans le Monde, 1973
Descriptors: Culture Conflict, Environmental Influences, Language Ability, Mental Health
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Van Peenen, Hubert J. – Journal of Medical Education, 1973
This paper documents, using a single test as a model, the significant increase in clinical laboratory workload which occurred in a university hospital when strong sections of nephrology, hematology-oncology, and immunology-rheumatology were added to the department of medicine. (Author)
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Clinics, Employment Patterns, Higher Education
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Hrebiniak, Lawrence G.; Alutto, Joseph A. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1972
An empirical study of 318 elementary and secondary school teachers and 395 registered nurses examines the relationship between personal and role-related factors and commitment to the employing organization. Results of multivariate tests indicated that levels of tension and number of years experience are the most important variables explaining…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Motivation, Nurses, Organizational Climate
Kolmin, Frank W.; Clark, Richard M. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1971
Descriptors: Assignments, Course Content, Evaluation, Higher Education
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Campbell, Douglas B. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Individual Needs, Interpersonal Relationship, Job Satisfaction
Johnson, Kenneth E. – American School and University, 1972
Summarizes results of a behavioral research study of the preferences of 358 office workers. (Author)
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Furniture Arrangement, Human Factors Engineering, Interior Space
Rotter, George S.; Portugal, Stephen M. – J Appl Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: College Students, Group Behavior, Interests, Problem Solving
Mallary, N. D., Jr. – J Employment Counseling, 1969
Descriptors: Clerical Occupations, Clerical Workers, Disadvantaged, Emotional Disturbances
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