Decisions of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the courts have affirmed that corporate Equal Employment Opportunity officers are quasi-managerial employees. Their primary role is to work with the company and its personnel to resolve problems and foster compliance with applicable employment laws and regulations. (Author/MLF)

Describes how a university-based career resource center incorporated a community outreach telephone career counseling program into its services. Discusses operation of the pilot program, staff, equipment, resources, and publicity/outreach. Presents results of a follow-up survey. (Author/RC)

Reviews some of the common elements and unique characteristics of program options in industrial education and industrial technology. Also discusses the issues and problems which will be of concern when both the industry and education options are located in the same administrative unit. (CT)

Examines the important and different relationships between job scope (complexity) and need for achievement in males and females. Discusses how the relationship between work and nonwork activities varies with the aspect of nonwork under consideration. Notes that job scope is often negatively correlated with intellectual leisure activities. (SB)

Describes, in 15 articles, the content and findings of the vocational rehabilitation core area of Project PREP (Programmatic Research on Employment Preparation). Presents the conceptual framework developed from research and addresses two themes: career services and management implications for a career-oriented program. (RC)

Provides relevant data on the field of organizational development (OD) from a sample survey of Organizational Development Network members. The 165 respondents described their careers, satisfactions, stresses, training, and education. The survey suggested that OD may be an amorphous field with many transitory participants, not a profession. (JAC)

A recent survey of 2,000 school superintendents concerning the role, the job, and the status of the superintendent of buildings and grounds in their districts generates uncertainty about whether the status and salary are equal to the responsibility of the position. (Author/MLF)

The need in many schools for a clearer definition of the job responsibilities of teachers who are "teachers-in-charge,""coordinator," or "head of department," is addressed by providing details on how to write a detailed and comprehensive job description, specification, or definition. (MP)

Describes the roles of coordinators leading teachers' workshops dedicated to developing curriculum materials. The analysis of the coordinators' roles, accompanied by detailed maps of competencies needed to fulfill these roles, is intended to serve as a guide for developing a systematic training program for coordinators. (Author/MLF)

Used a coding system for chronicling a variety of microbehaviors in sequence in adolescent job environments. Working teenagers (N=97) were observed continuously over a two-hour period. Three elements of each of 100 behaviors were recorded: the social context, the character, and the duration and concomitants of the behavior. (Author/RC)

Describes a program that aims at increasing the number of women technicians in computer and other electronics industries. Discusses how more women are entering the computer field in Massachusetts, the stigma of technical work, typical assignments, lack of short-term courses, and recent responses to needs. (CT)

The second installment in a series of articles discusses the organization, scheduling, authority, and responsibility of an effective school maintenance program. (Author/MLF)

Management by Objectives (MBO) should focus on objectives to be achieved and the establishment of objectives should involve participation between superior and subordinate. A process is described for facilitating the communications aspect of MBO through the use of a process consultant. (Author/MLF)

To develop a more diversified economic base in Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs implemented the Development Plan for the Vocational Training and Manpower Division, which intends to train a large number of Saudis in employable trades. Methods include building modern training facilities, developing competency based learning…

Number of agents and number of supervisors were the most consistent correlates of behavior. Reasons cited included: (1) policies and practices of individual companies; (2) the discretion managers have in choosing task activities; and (3) individual differences. Management research should cut across technological categories of managers and define…