This manual presents a comprehensive evaluation tool that can be used by employees with disabilities, by rehabilitation practitioners, and by consultants to develop job accommodations in a variety of employment settings. The Job Accommodation System is designed to help in identifying, selecting, and implementing job accommodations and consists of…

The roles of direct service, training and education of physicians and nurses, direct consultation, and administrative mental health training are discussed as they relate to mental health services to Federal employees in the Washington area subject to stresses resulting from individuality loss, responsibility diffusion, frequent reorganizations,…

The text of a speech which the author delivered at the Black Consciousness Conference, University of Detroit, May 5, 1972. (JM)

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association (New York, New York, 1969). (JM)

Article analyzes reasons for the spread of collective bargaining in the academic world. (IR)

The author has sketched briefly the major issues that were in dispute, their historical development, and the method of their resolution in the Job Training Partnership Act. (SSH)

Data from a 1977 survey designed to measure the quality of employment in America are compared with data from surveys in 1969 and 1973, providing trends over an eight-year period. The 1977 survey shows declines both in job satisfaction and in workers' desires to stay in their present employments. (MF)

The author examines some of the traditional barriers and myths which have led to unemployment and underemployment of the handicapped, including job search practices, labor market variations, attitudes restricting occupational choice, and lack of training. He notes recent beneficial trends and makes recommendations for further change. (SJL)

Personnel managers examined vignettes in which an employee had made a serious mistake. Responses indicated that employees in traditionally male-identified positions were seen as more competent than those in female-identified jobs. Punishing personnel action was least likely to be recommended for men in traditionally male positions. (Author/SJL)

Discusses how Asian Americans are faring in the job market, focusing on the three largest subgroups: the Japanese, Chinese, and Pilipinos. The information on which this discussion is based comes from "A Study of Selected Socio-economic Characteristics of Ethnic Minorities Based on the 1970 Census, Volume II; Asian Americans," prepared by Urban…

Problems encountered in trying to serve older workers in a comprehensive employment program were found to be transportation, lack of support from the business community, and the negative image of the older worker. Steps taken to solve these problems are described, such as branch employment offices, publicity, volunteer service organizations, and…

This report made at a Senate-House Joint Economic Committee hearing on the problems of youth unemployment is based on data gathered through academic research and personal visits to several industrialized countries. (WL)