The challenge for human resource development managers is to design an environment that makes the most of productive people rather than perpetuating the factory system of work. (JOW)

The increased expansion of laser technology will create many new jobs and will require workers with many different skills. At the same time, some kinds of occupations will be adversely affected, due to increasing use of laser technology in a broad range of industries. (CT)

Examines four scenarios for the future of employment and unemployment. Presents their main features and identifies some of the key underlying issues they raise. Issues involve the value of work versus leisure, paid versus unpaid work, what forms of work we will pay for, and how this work will be distributed. (CT)

Semiskilled and "unskilled" workers in semiconductors, computer manufacturing, and consumer electronics industries are more likely than other workers to lose jobs because of technology, imports, and offshore production. However, advances in technology do tend to create jobs for skilled workers. (CT)

Successful programs developed to help laid-off teachers find new jobs are described. (MD)

Deficiencies in job performance are not always due to a lack of knowledge, but frequently are the result of not knowing proper procedures and methods to get the job done. Recognizing the difference between deficiency in knowledge and deficiency in skills is the key to improving performance without training. (Editor)

Delineates a model systems approach for job development placement services intended to show how a specialist may program his annual work load through the use of the Performance and Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) Chart. (TA)

Describes ideas and activities to facilitate group self-relevant data sharing presented at a Colorado community education conference of community school leaders and administrators. (Author/DN)

Business educators can guide potentially successful people into office occupations by being familiar with job design, job satisfaction, and clerical aptitudes. Teachers can also play a role in the development of satisfying office jobs and of personal selection criteria. (SK)

The real retraining of the American work force will not come about through massive, federally operated job training programs. It will come about only when employers are able to look forward to a promising economic future that requires highly trained and motivated employees and that offers real jobs. (Author/SSH)

Subjecting vocational training to economic analysis, the author points to the high degree of uncertainty affecting employment and training policies, and urges that economists attempt to integrate their analyses with specific knowledge of the realities of the labor market. (Availability: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities,…

Considers the role of "information counselors" in the rapidly changing information environment, contrasting the functions performed by information counselors with those normally performed by information managers and librarians. The factors which are leading toward the development of a new profession are thoroughly reviewed. (JL)

The author discusses job redesign and employee participation as two management practices that need to be developed and utilized. Also examines skills needed by workers, supervisors, and lower-level middle management for which colleges and technical institutions could deliver training. (CT)

Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of job-sharing as an alternative to part-time employment in libraries and describes a job-sharing experiment at the Parson Branch of the Public Library of Columbus and Franklin County. Six references are included. (CHC)