This hearing before the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources focuses on national goals for employment and poverty reduction. Testimony was heard from government officials, union representatives, economists, and other interested persons. Excerpts from articles and publications were submitted for review. The testimony included the following…

This report provides information about programs that can be replicated and resources that can be tapped to design and implement strategies for helping women on welfare become productive employees. The first part describes major welfare programs in the United States and welfare-to-work programs initiated in selected states over the past several…

This booklet describes how an apprenticeship program can be established in any industry and for any occupation requiring skills that take one or more years to learn. Topics covered briefly in the booklet include the following: how an apprenticeship program is started, recommended minimum standards, basic provisions, on-the-job instruction, and…

No law or regulation exists at the present time specifying minimum time periods of training for executives, managers, or supervisors employed by federal agencies, although such a regulation did exist until June 1981. For fiscal years 1984 through 1986, 54 executive agencies or organizations that employ at least 95 percent of the nonpostal civilian…

Four aspects of the process of an individual's socialization into a new organization are examined: characteristics, stages, content, and practice. Socialization is defined as the process by which an individual comes to appreciate the values, abilities, expected behaviors, and social knowledge essential for assuming an organizational role and for…

To assess the impact of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) on youth employment and training, an examination of its implementation in New York City was undertaken. This study focused on the training, educational, and support activities in the local JTPA during the program's first year (1984-5), with special attention paid to the effects of…

Southland Corporation chose the sound-on-slide system to train employees and finds it fast, economical, and effective. (MW)

A Chicago business school offers fashion merchandising as one of several business curriculums that combines on-the-job training and classroom instruction. Instruction is organized around the occupational cluster concept which requires training stations that provide a wide variety of learning experiences. (EA)

In addressing the BACIE (British Association for Commercial and Industrial Education) national conference, May 8, 1974, the Parliamentary Undersecretary of State, Department of Employment, discussed the work ahead for the newly-established Manpower Services Commission. Efforts of the Employment Service Agency and the Training Service Agency will…

How students can be involved in the actual work to be done in the school. (HB)

Two groups of nonprofessional trainees received specific job-related training in behavioral principles and procedures of both milieu and social-learning treatment programs for chronic mental patients. Each group received different learning approaches. Attitudinal changes are associated with behavior-specific training and differential patterns of…

Although there is a shortage of jobs for the severely impaired, there is a manpower shortage in the field of micrographics. The Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research Micrographics Training Program attempts to solve both of these problems by training and placing in competitive employment individuals with severe physical disabilities.…