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Download full textAmerican Association of Community and Junior Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1982
The United States requires a coordinated, national approach to human resource development that will result in the establishment of priorities, detailed planning, and the full use of public and private resources backed by adequate state and federal funding. Problems of unemployment, underemployment, skilled worker shortages, national defense needs…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Opportunities, Entrepreneurship, Federal Legislation
Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA. Center for Medical Manpower Studies. – 1977
Intended for researchers in the health manpower field, this booklet contains abstracts of books and journal articles on health manpower published over the past eighteen months and a report of a study of the Center for Medical Manpower Studies. The booklet begins with two pages that list ten health manpower indicators involving costs, patient…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Accountability, Administrators, Allied Health Occupations
BISHOP, CHARLES E. – 1967
SEVEN ESSAYS EXAMINE THE REASONS AND PRESENT TABLEAUS OF DATA RELATIVE TO THE LOW PRODUCTIVITY OF SMALL FARMS COMPARED WITH LARGE FARMS, THE LOW FINANCIAL RETURNS OF FARM LABOR, AND THE MASS EXODUS OF FARM MANPOWER. THE CHARACTERISTICS, TRENDS, AND SOCIOECONOMIC SITUATION OF HIRED FARM LABOR DURING THE PERIOD 1947-1964 ARE PRESENTED. THE CHANGING…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Machinery Occupations, Agricultural Trends, Agriculture
Newland, Kathleen – 1979
Approximately 20 million workers are presently living in countries other than their homelands in order to find better job opportunities. This labor migration is determined mainly by an income gap between the sending and receiving countries. Less important determinants are historical ties, cultural or linguistic affinity, and proximity. Emigrants…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Factors
Drewes, D. W.; Katz, Douglas S. – 1975
The document studies the availability and use of manpower data in vocational education and delineates the underlying factors influencing data usage. Information was collected from 10 States selected from 10 Federal regions. Descriptions of the findings are presented for each agency according to the following categories: (1) State vocational…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Data Collection, Educational Needs, Educational Programs
Adkins, Douglas L. – 1975
This document studies the changes in the total number of holders of bachelor's and more advance degrees from 1930 to 1971 and provides detailed annual estimates of degree holders in 44 fields. Considered are four possible models that might explain the steady growth in the number of degrees awarded and the changes that occurred in their…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Age, Attitude Change, Credentials
Blair, Larry M.; Barker, Larry – 1975
The study presents the results of a survey of current (1975) and projected near-future (1975 through 1977) labor market trends for nuclear-related technicians in the 12-State Western Interstate Nuclear Region Board (WINB) area. The survey covered employers and educators/trainers of nuclear related manpower in private industry, research…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Employment Statistics
Akhtar, Shahid – 1975
The annotated bibliography attempts to coordinate information on nontraditional health care delivery systems in remote regions of the world, especially in developing countries. The literature abstracted focuses primarily on new models of health care delivery and on the training and utilization of auxiliary health workers. It is intended to be…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Allied Health Occupations Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Delivery Systems
Hyatt, Norman F.; Gloriod, John A. – 1972
This evaluation of 9 months of the first year of the federally funded Utah Manpower Development and Training Act Skills Center with 89 enrollees examines the program's effectiveness by means of a literature review, personnel interviews, preparation of training program objectives, and the utilization of these objectives as success criteria for the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Objectives, Federal Programs, Goal Orientation
Goldstein, Harold M.; And Others – 1974
The general objectives of the study were to determine whether one can motivate users of health personnel, such as hospitals, to modify their hiring-in-requirements to the actual needs of the job, to restructure health occupational skills, and to develop inservice training programs which permit upward job mobility. Five hospitals, representing a…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Employment Practices, Health Occupations, Health Personnel
Pascal, Anthony H. – 1975
The report is concerned with the evaluation of existing literature on alternative programs to facilitate mid-life redirection of careers, with a view to identifying how literature in relevant fields can be used by policy makers. The report is a condensed and abbreviated version of the material in Volume 2, Major Findings. Some 300 items of…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Adults, Career Change, Educational Programs
Tuskegee Inst., AL. – 1968
The labor mobility program is designed to provide such counseling, technical, and financial assistance as will be needed to place retrained persons on jobs that make decent wages in other communities, in contrast to those programs which retrain persons for local employment. The general objectives include: developing jobs for persons having…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Demonstration Programs, Financial Support
Neleigh, Janice, Ed.; Levy, Jerome, Ed. – 1969
As described at a 1969 conference and summarized here, the training and use of nonprofessionals in the demonstration program (1962-68) of the Dona Ana Mental Health Services, New Mexico, represented a significant change in structure, manpower utilization, and delivery system for such services. The conference itself reviewed such aspects as…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adults, Children, Client Characteristics (Human Services)
Glickman, Albert S.; Brown, Zenia H. – 1974
Implications of innovative experiments with changes in the standard 40-hour workweek are dealt with in the study, which is a shorter version of a comprehensive report on changing work schedules prepared by the American Institute for Research. Varying patterns of two general types of workweeks are presented: (1) the compact workweek which may be…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Economic Research, Employment Patterns
Gordon, Jesse E.; And Others – 1974
This report summarized methodology employed to disseminate social science knowledge for use in manpower agencies in a manner designed to increase the probability of correct application of the knowledge in the task performances of manpower workers. The report covers methods of retrieving and synthesizing relevant research, organizing the knowledge…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Audiovisual Communications, Diffusion, Guides
