As a consequence of the increasing number of women workers, the Manpower Administration has stepped up its efforts to see that women are getting equal opportunities in manpower training programs for nontraditional jobs. (Author/BP)

Consideration of the nature of futures research and of observations about the future of management and management education leads to several conclusions about the characteristics that successful educational administrators will share in the future and the training that will be required to prepare them. Three factors complicating futures research…

A review of the history of the failure of public policies to alter the American distribution of income from the early Kennedy administration to Nixon's 1974 budget.

A CONFERENCE WAS HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN ON THE SUBJECT OF OCCUPATIONAL DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR EDUCATION PLANNING ON JUNE 15-16, 1965. THE CONFERENCE FOCUSED ON FOUR AREAS--(1) THE OCCUPATIONAL DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR EDUCATION PLANNING, (2) THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF MANPOWER, (3) FOREIGN…

BECAUSE LITTLE RELATED EXPERIENCE WAS AVAILABLE UPON WHICH TO FABRICATE THE MOST EFFICIENT PROGRAMS OF THE TWO FIRST MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT (MDTA) SPONSORED SCHOOLS OPENED IN UTAH IN 1965, THIS STUDY PROPOSED TO ASSESS THE PROGRAMS TO DETERMINE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES, AND TO MAKE A SUBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF THE CURRICULAR STRENGTHS…

North Carolina service agencies must understand the economic goals and principles of the society they serve (especially the components of productivity and effective manpower policy) and the contribution the agency can make to attaining these goals. More careful planning and coordination of human resource development programs and services is…

This annotated bibliography covers studies, surveys, and statistical data relating to college trained manpower. It serves to make known the scope of these source materials as a service to those engaged in placement and recruitment. All the materials contained herein were published from 1960-1966. The material is listed according to subject…

As did Lorton and Rikers Island, the Draper Education and Development (E&D) Project demonstrated the feasibility of operating a manpower training program in a correctional setting. However, it was demonstrated that education and training per se are not enough to effect the broad changes in inmates required for successful social adjustment. The…

The document contains the twelfth statement from the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education. It calls for a strong national policy towards vocational education and emphasizes the growing importance of vocational education in manpower development and the national economy. The lack of a national policy in vocational education has created…

A critique of the concept of human capital as an evaluative measure of manpower development programs initiated this conference. Manuscripts from the more than 50 authors are included for reports on "basic" research in the labor market field (inter-plant and intra-plant mobility, the peripheral labor force, and problems of statistical…

This collection of manpower reports and surveys was prepared to provide a better appraisal and evaluation of manpower activities in developing countries. A total of 300 reports of manpower programs covering a 10-year period for 1958-68 were collected for the inventory, and 226 were selected on the basis of their relevance to the field of manpower…

The symposium was conducted to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas on the various forms of private and government resources, to offer an opportunity for mutual discussion of concrete problems and potential solutions, and to issue a report for the information of officials and specialists of private agencies. The participants at the…

A t a briefing sponsored by the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Individual Training, members of the Human Resources Research Office reported on four projects using job and task analysis in different training situations. Wor k Unit STOCK was a training program designed to develop training management procedures for heterogeneous ability…

Testimony from 39 witnesses who appeared before the Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty in 1968 is presented in this volume. In addition, statements, articles, and letters of various labor, educational, government and industrial representatives are included. Also included are three bills presented before the second session of the…

Concepts of internal agency structure and operations, agency-company relations, and agency-enrollee relations, with recommendations for their implementation, form the three main sections of this handbook developed for manpower agency administrators, supervisory staffs and program planners. It is designed to aid those who organize and develop…