Examined the literature dealing with the relation of occupation to suicide for three occupational categories: health care providers, managerial and professional persons, and military and paramilitary personnel. Presents evidence relating to group differences in suicidal behavior. Considers theories explaining variations in incidence of suicide.…

The Uniform Guidelines for Employee Selection Procedures created a need for efficient validation methods that can be generalized to a class of occupations. One method currently authorized by the Guidelines is synthetic validation. Describes approaches to synthetic validity. Recommends Primoff's J-Coefficient approach. (Author/JAC)

The Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) and the Self-Directed Search (SDS) were administered to 102 Black women workers in occupational environments consistent with Holland's six vocational environments. Four scales in each test successfully differentiated the occupational groups, supporting the concurrent validity of Holland's theory for…

Each of the five decisions discussed relates to curricular change that will influence the administration and supervision of business and office education. Distinctions between vocational and general education and between vocational and prevocational education are among topics discussed. Educators are urged to be innovative in implementing…

Examined the pattern of reinforcers characteristic of the homemaker occupation in order to identify occupations similar and dissimilar to this job. Homemakers (N=107) with less than half-time employment completed the Minnesota Job Description Questionnaire (MJDQ). Reinforcers for homemaking role include decision-making authority and autonomy,…

This paper illustrates a procedure for using the interest scores of occupational group members to locate occupations on Holland's hexagon. The procedure locates occupations throughout the hexagon--not just at the six points. The Holland types are Realistic (R), Investigative (I), Artistic (A), Social (S), Enterprising (E), and Conventional (C).…

These student materials are designed to accompany the Career Opportunities Instructional Guide. Page numbers are consistent with the numbering in that guide. Seventeen units are provided. The materials in Unit 1 concern aspects of locating information about occupations; Unit 2 provides an introduction to the 15 occupational clusters. Each of the…

This document contains a task analysis for health occupations (dental assistant) in the dental assisting cluster. For each task listed, occupation, duty area, performance standard, steps, knowledge, attitudes, safety, equipment/supplies, source of analysis, and Illinois state goals for learning are listed. For the duty area of "providing…

This article summarizes the debate between those who favor educating generalists and those who favor educating specialists, and offers a compromise, based on the research, which is to offer both general and specialized programs for middle-management levels of business occupations. (Author/NHM)

The author presents a communications-content domain model to assist educational planners create a graphics communications cluster which can better prepare students for a future of change. The concept of clustering is explored, especially in its applicability to graphics communications. (AJ)

Career education is probably best described as a group of concepts and processes, including career awareness, career exploration, infusion of career-oriented material with traditional educational resources, hands-on involvement, and participation in education by people normally employed in the world of work. Vocational education is simply one…

The relationship between occupational groups and level of overall job satisfaction is examined for a 1972-1973 U.S. sample of males and females. Analysis employing ANCOVA and dummy variables found some support for the relationship between the variables. Significant between-group differences were found for males but not for females. Introduction of…

This report reviews the personnel literature on the development of job families to illustrate and provide examples of varied approaches to the taxonomic issues of objective, content, and method in job family construction. This booklet first examines the definition of job families and then briefly discusses the potential utility of job families.…

The purpose of this guide is to help educators consider the community as an integral part of the total educational program. The document is divided into two major parts. Part one contains a guide for the use of community resources. These uses are categorized into the following five areas: (1) developing resource linkages; (2) the school as a…