This study evaluated the predictive validity of two preemployment screening devices--the Urban Teacher Perceiver Interview and the Academic Skills Assessment portion of the Praxis Series test--as used by an urban high-need and hard-to-staff school district. Specifically, we compared predictor scores with subsequent teacher assessment scores…

Reasons why discrimination against qualified handicapped individuals persists include fears that their problems are insurmountable in the workplace and a lack of awareness of their rights under the Rehabilitation Act (1973) and their support systems. Includes sources of information on employing the handicapped. (JOW)

This article consists of two letters printed in the East Hampton Star" chronicling the events surrounding the dismissal without hearing of librarian Joan Ford. (SJ)

Points out that few firms in Britain have alcohol recovery policies and that management will have little incentive to introduce such policies as long as it is relatively easy to dismiss employees for alcohol-related offenses. (JOW)

Employers should rethink some of the conventional wisdom about hiring ex-inmates. Many make competent, responsible employees. (JOW)

In 2005 the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, the central organisation of unions in New Zealand, initiated a Learning Representatives Project based on the British model. The Government approved an eight-month programme to be funded through its Tertiary Education Commission to "scope the project". Work began not just on scoping, but on…

One way to define culture is "the way a group of people prefer to behave." The trick for organizational leaders is to find ways to ensure that the company culture, that is the way their people prefer to behave, is supportive of what is needed to successfully deliver the company strategy. Using a criteron-referenced approach, we can first examine…

With particular regard to gender, this paper considers the rise and fall of EEO in Australian universities over the last 30 years. The paper argues that EEO, a product of social liberalism, had barely been introduced before it became a casualty of the Dawkins reforms and the transformation of the university. Corporatisation resulted in top-down…

Using a representative employer-employee level dataset, this paper answers four questions: (1) What characterises employer provided training in Norway? (2) What characterises firms that invest heavily in employer provided training? (3) Is it the same firms that invest in employer provided all the time? (4) Has the level of employer provided…

This article outlines some actions available to education associations concerning staff layoff and specific attempts which have been made to minimize the impact of reductions in force. (RC)

The General Accounting Office studied employer-sponsored retirement savings plans provided for under section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code. Nearly 5,000 employers were surveyed in 1987 to determine (1) the incidence of 401(k) plans and their relationship to other types of retirement plans; (2) the variation in plan provisions and experiences…

This paper discusses legal implications for employment as a result of Bakke v. Regents of University of California, a reverse discrimination case that ruled in favor of the plaintiff. It refers to Weber v. Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation, a case that may turn out to be more significant than Bakke because it involves jobs, money, and who…

Every professional personnel department has the basic skills to provide at least minimum outplacement services such as resume preparation, resume typing and reproduction, counseling, and suggestions of job leads. (Author)