Based on current employment trends and potential interactions among them, the author offers his views of organization, technological, management, labor, and education changes that will take place in the next twenty-three years. Among these are increasing service work, more worker mobility, management role changes, continual education, and…

One area where sex discrimination has received relatively little attention is in recruiting and hiring administrators. This research examines how many women are working in top administrative posts in higher educational institutions in the United States. (Author/RK)

Suggestions are offered for setting personnel policies, determining needed skills and abilities, finding applicants, developing application forms, and interviewing applicants. (LBH)

The American Association of University Professors statement concerns policies and practices that open senior academic appointments to persons with reduced workloads and salaries without loss of status. (MSE)

Examines the advantages and disadvantages of both the open and the confidential letter of recommendation and offers suggestions as to what kind of information should be included in such letters. (JC)

A review of 1986 litigation with an impact on higher education looks at both major developments and the expanding breadth and variety of the law of higher education. It explores developments concerning the institution, the employment situation of faculty and staff, and students. (MSE)

Male business students read materials intended to manipulate company climate, then evaluated a fictitious resume of a male or female applicant for a managerial position, deciding on hire, salary, applicant fit with the company, and anticipated longevity. In a discriminatory climate women applicants were evaluated less favorably than men. Approval…

Examined the extent and nature of employer workplace initiatives based on interviews with New Orleans (Louisiana) employers. Bolstered other research findings of progress but continued limited workplace implementations of formal, family-supportive programs. Found modifications of formal and informal policies extended organizational family…

Issues of early retirement of college and university faculty are examined as they relate to Australia's aging faculty population, and the conditions necessary to promote early retirement successfully in this context are considered. (MSE)

The Supreme Court invalidated a school board's voluntarily adopted affirmative action plan. Discusses specifically the subsequent decisions of the lower federal courts concerning affirmative action in the areas of hiring, promotion, and layoffs, and one ruling concerning student admissions decisions. (MLF)

In an Oklahoma case, the district court ruled that the school district had failed to investigate the background of a teacher convicted of a second sexual abuse charge. School districts should examine personnel polices and practices, and the school lawyer should review state laws, regulations, and court cases. (MLF)

The arguments in favor of preferential treatment for some groups are faulty. An examination of these arguments is included. Although victims of discrimination should be helped, programs should promote race-, gender- or ethnically conscious hiring. Affirmative action has led to a increase in bureaucratically-caused discrimination. (PS)

Both pharmacy and nonpharmacy organizations have condemned the use of the polygraph in the employment setting on the basis of questionable validity and protection of civil rights. Pharmacy educators should be familiar with the problems attendant to the use of this technique. (MLW)

While many U.S. corporate employers take their employees' education seriously and offer tuition benefit programs, few employees use them, presumably because of lack of interest among older workers, poor employee self-image, lack of time or funds for related costs, red tape, and lack of counseling. (MSE)

The attitudes of eight part-time faculty members about their lack of job security, the increasing elusiveness of regular positions, inadequate compensation, commitment to the profession, distance from their peers, and other features of their employment situation are discussed. (MSE)