Studied the relationship between job entry and job stress in a longitudinal study of 62 transferred employees. Results showed skill uncertainty was associated with both negative emotional arousal one month after job entry and with positive emotional arousal three months after job entry. (JAC)

Reviewed characteristics of peer evaluations and notes their striking industrial validity. A review of the conditions under which peer evaluations yield strong validity coefficients as well as certain factor analytic and experimental studies indicated that social comparison theory might be useful for elucidating the nature of peer evaluation…

Investigated the consistency and loci of leniency, halo, and range restriction effects in performance ratings in a longitudinal study. Policy supervisors (N=90) rated 350 subordinates on five occasions. Concluded that reliable variance in mean ratings is partly attributable to ratees, but mainly introduced by raters. (JAC)

This booklet presents five papers that address the issue of whether 360-degree feedback (in which a manager or executive receives feedback on how bosses, peers, and direct reports see him or her) should be used only for development, or whether 360-degree feedback (also known as multi-rater feedback) should be used for administrative purposes such…

Work sampling is a managerial accounting technique which provides information about the efficiency of an operation. This analysis determines what tasks are being performed durinq a period of time to ascertain if time and effort are being allocated efficiently. (SK)

Provides seven suggestions for enhancing student performance and for reliably documenting student achievement through the use of carefully developed criterion-referenced measures. (JOW)

Education and training include training to perform the immediate job, to help the individual anticipate and accommodate change, and to help prepare for future advancement. This training produces workers able to perform immediate tasks and who are motivated to keep on learning. (JOW)

Reviews eight recent observational studies of school administrators and criticizes the studies' use of "time and motion" assumptions drawn from Frederick Winslow Taylor's ideas. Outlines an alternate approach based on "thick" description of administrators' work, including their talk, as exemplified in James Boswell's biography…

Environmental Health Proficiency Examinations which are based on the Role Delineation Study were developed for use by registration agencies. To validate the examinations, performance measures of on-the-job practice were administered along with the examinations. Results show that examinations are valid but not perfect predictors of on-the-job…

The author examines the potential possessed by both men and women in corporations to develop a newly-focused and people-sensitive management style. Discusses management skill dimensions, leadership qualities, flexibility, decision making, inner work standards, and performance stability. (CT)

Discusses how teachers' values influence their feelings about students, themselves, and other teachers and cause the development of stress. Suggests ways to overcome stress. (CT)

Describes a National Education Association workshop designed to help teachers manage day-to-day stress and stay in teaching. The program has four objectives: to identify sources of stress; to determine present stress level; to explore ways to manage stress; and to explore ways to minimize distress. (CT)

Examines how first-level supervisors identify and manage marginal employees. Suggests that the appropriate use of sanctions may be perceived by employees as legitimate and may be conducive to the development of productive group norms. (Author/IRT)

Examines five potential problems concerning performance evaluation, including (1) personnel managers' organizational knowledge and where the employee fits in that organization; (2) how managers prepare performance standards; (3) how managers identify employee competence; (4) how performance standards are measured; and (5) results of performance…

Reports the results and difficulties of a study designed to determine if there is a relationship between employee fitness and employee performance. (Author/MLF)