Cites current and projected technician needs in the aviation industry as concluded from a recent study by the Cessna Aviation Co. (GR)

Describes changing personnel needs for administrators, supervisors, specialists, and line workers in the corrections field. This special issue of Manpower is entitled Making Prison Training Work." (BH)

Reprinted from the January 1968 issue of "Business Education Forum. (AP)

The first of a series of articles analyzing the results of the American Hospital Association's Nursing Personnel Survey, this article discusses Registered Nurse (RN) recruitment plans, modes used to recruit RNs, and the costs for the recruitment and orientation of an RN among hospitals classified by bed size, control, and geographic region. (SSH)

Presents concept of preventive conservation of archival records as a new science resulting from the use of modern techniques and chemicals. Various techniques for storage, proper environment, preventive de-acidification, fire prevention, restoration, and staff considerations are described. References are provided. (EJS)

The article explores the use of resource rooms with educable mentally handicapped students. (PHR)

Outlines two major problems facing English department administrators in their attempts to hire adequate new faculty: (1) reduced institutional resources; and (2) the complex problems connected with faculty retirements. Suggests methods by which administrators can best cope with limited hiring opportunities. (HB)

A team approach for multi-handicapped children helps prevent fragmentary therapy or duplicated or conflicting programs. Successful social control in a rehabilitation center depends on staff/client relationship, the adaptability of the child, the program, staff orientation and role, attitudes of therapist and child, and acceptance of the child's…

If a trainer thoroughly analyzes organizational factors external to training, he may discover that training is not the necessary factor for improvement. (Editor)

Suggests how one might go about planning and implementing an affirmative action program, beginning with the assumption that a person knows little about affirmative action demands. (Editor)

Given the aging of the population, the need for an increased number of persons trained and educated in gerontology is evident. To date, gerontology curricula have been based upon institutional requirements and interests, such as the guidelines provided by the Foundations Project (1980). To expand these guidelines, the needs and interests of the…

The General Accounting Office (GAO) estimates that the cost of S.249, the Parental and Medical Leave Act of 1987, will be, at most, 500 million dollars annually, a figure which reflects the cost of continuing health insurance coverage for employees on unpaid leave. S.249 is legislation which aims to provide to workers at firms with 15 or more…

It has been suggested that older workers may be particuarly vulnerable to the obsolescence process. One definition of obsolescence directly implies that the obsolescence construct is a function of two elements, the job and the person. New technologies, new products, and new methods and procedures can result in job changes which in turn can compel…

Both comprehensive and long-range educational planning are discussed in this paper. Comprehensive planning begins with the identification of the district's mission. This mission generates a set of continuing objectives that aim toward the completion of specific end-dated objectives. The comprehensive plan must take into account the educational…