A detailed description of the Staff Sentiment Scale (SSS) is given. In addition, a brief description of the Conceptual Model, upon which the SSS is based, is given. The model is based on an extensive review of the literature of organizational theory and differentiated staffing and upon systematic observations in schools. It treats Process…

The primary purpose of this report is to assist State and local education associations in their efforts to improve the compensation of teachers at all levels -- elementary, secondary, and higher education. This compendium of currently available data provides a single source of technical information for assessing and comparing the economic position…

Sociological models of professionalization are applied to recent events in program evaluation to study the development of the field and to predict future events. The focus is on problems that might arise and the necessity of ameliorating them. Available from: Pergamon Press, Maxwell House, Fairview Park, Elmsford, New York 10523. (Author/ GDC)

Describes a multiplant quality assurance organization study at NCR Corporation. Objectives were to upgrade quality assurance engineer expertise, reclassify job descriptions and evaluations, and develop staffing profiles to guide management planning. Includes procedures used in implementing these objectives. (MF)

A master's program that synthesizes clinical nursing knowledge with management theory and skills is one way to prepare nursing service administrators capable of exerting an influence on today's complex health care system. (Editor)

Describes the job seeking experiences of dual career couples where both are professionals. Suggests ways of dealing with the pressures of joint job seeking. (Editor/RK)

This paper suggests that the major problems facing social work are not those related to public misunderstanding or structural position within the "welfare system," but to the profession's acquiescent posture in the "ill-fare nonsystem." The scant attention paid to minority issues in the papers is challenged. (Author)

This preliminary study of the veterinary job market was initiated to monitor activities of new graduates and to serve as one check on the validity of prior veterinary manpower studies. Hypothetical, mathematical models compared numbers of veterinarians to livestock population, human population, single family dwellings, economy, etc. (LBH)

Indicates Association for Business Communication (ABC) academic member is probably female with following characteristics: Ph.D. with publications, age 34-44, tenured collegiate business school professor, emphasizes class work, and salary over $30,000. Indicates ABC business member is a male writing consultant or manager who supervises, conducts…

The author proposes a domain and definition for the human performance technology field. The proposed domain consists of three components: management functions, performance systems development functions, and components of human performance systems. He also discusses systems theory and professional practice and outlines implications for research,…

Discusses employment opportunities in optical engineering. States that demand is expanding faster than the supply of degree holders in the field. Points out that graduates from other fields are being used to fill the demand. Identifies programs that offer degrees in optical engineering. (CW)

A registrar replacing a long-time college registrar describes how it feels to follow an institutional legend and outlines some facts, approaches, and viewpoints learned during his first year of experience in the job, such as student and faculty attitudes, typical situations, and pitfalls. (MSE)

Institutional research is a practicing art, whose merits lie in its relevance to and influence on decision and policy making. A more positive attitude toward theory-related research would enhance its future development. (Author/MLW)

Cites the need for scholarly activity in instructional technology and argues that it should be shifted from education, with its focus on teacher preparation, to technology, where there would be more freedom to explore the consequences of techniques, methods, instruments, and processes inherent in the field. Thirty-two references are cited. (MBR)

Explores careers of 23 Black professional women involved in social change programs in urban Black communities. Discusses conflict between dominant culture professionalism and goals of social change, and difficulties in predicting behavior of the Black middle class with reference to combined effects of race and class or "nation-class"…