If students learn entrepreneurial skills and attitudes in home economics, they may be more likely to combine homemaking roles with a part-time business. These skills can enable people to create their own jobs and provide an alternative when unemployment is high. (Editor/SK)

A study of the effect of high-performance work systems on 935 nurses and 182 nurses aides indicated that quality of decision-making information depends on workers' interpretive skills and partially mediated effects of work design and total quality management on organizational performance. Providing relevant knowledge and opportunities to use…

From 1992-2000, high employment and wage growth occurred together with low unemployment in a number of U.S. Rust Belt metropolitan areas. Localities with these characteristics had larger and younger companies in environments with high rates of both job creation and job destruction. (Contains 24 references.) (Author)

Examples from Utah, Illinois, and other states illustrate how entrepreneurship is becoming part of the educational structure due to growing recognition of the importance of small businesses to economic growth. (SK)

Suggests that editors looking for work can approach companies with some unsolicited editing of the company's own annual report. Suggest what to look for when editing an annual report. (SR)

One incentive state governments are offering industries to relocate is customized, state-supported training. A pool of skilled workers is a distinct competitive advantaged in attracting new businesses. (SK)

Entrepreneurial activity, which is higher in the United States than in Europe, is important to job growth but not as important as job expansion in existing firms. However, smaller companies play a much larger role in job growth in services than in manufacturing. (Author/JOW)

Nineteen international case studies of workplace stress prevention initiatives are analyzed. The focus of these cases, which span a variety of workplaces and locations, is on preventing stress through work reorganization rather than remedial approaches for stress relief. It is found that the majority of the occupations represented in the case…

Family firms play an important role in the working of the Canadian economy; despite their importance to the economic activities and job creation it is observed that family businesses have lower survival rates than non-family firms, some argue that this can possibly be attributed (amongst other factors) to the lack of training. Most of the training…

Purpose--What is required of job design and production planning, if they are to result in a work group taking a self-starting approach and going beyond what is formally required of it? This paper aims to contribute to group research by testing a theoretical model of relations between job design on the one hand (captured as completeness, demand on…

Exploring career differences helps kids learn about themselves and the work world. (Editor)

Rapid changes in the nation's economy have resulted in significant increases in the demand for workers in technical jobs but a significant decrease in the demand for unskilled workers. Unfortunately, the abilities of available manpower have not been developed to meet the requirements of jobs at the levels where the increased demands have occurred.…

Describes recommendations developed for the creation of hundreds of jobs for young physicists to maintain a vigorous and internationally competitive research effort in physics through the establishment of either a National Research Scientific Program in Physics or a National Research Faculty Appointments in Physics. (GA)

The authors discuss the rate of job creation in the United States between 1973 and 1985. The controversy regarding the quality of the new jobs is emphasized. Four points of view on this controversy are reviewed. The authors also present recent research findings concerning average earnings and earnings inequality. (CH)

The paper discusses creativity and the creative process, cites current methods used to improve creativity in the workplace, and explains the concept of values and value systems as they relate to creativity. Values and value systems are defined; and their source, their nature and functions, and their measurement are outlined. (JDD)