Suggest re-orientation of engineering curricula to solve problems encountered in staffing technically capable personnel in municipal government bodies. (CC)

Future training and development programs should stress need to improve and achieve conditions of productivity that can continue to have the United States compete in world markets. (DS)

Presented here are three addresses by industry representatives, delivered to a session of the DE Division on December 9. The implications of their remarks for the planning and evaluation of DE programs should be clear. (Editor)

Recognition of the importance of the workplace derives from the pervasive influence of work on adult development, the substantial scale of education and training carried out at work, changes in the nature of work and occupations, and new forms and content in worker education. (SK)

In 1670 the British parliament granted a charter giving the Hudson's Bay Company a monopolistic right to trade furs in the lands draining into the Hudson and James Bays; this enactment would alter permanently the way of life of the native inhabitants of the fur-rich lands. The first fur trading post was Moose Factory. (ERB)

The difficulty in getting a job has become a dilemma for health education graduates. The preparation of the curriculum vitae, methods of personal interviewing, and ideas for evaluating the potential employer are discussed. Sample questions which might be asked of the potential employer are included. (JN)

Compared the predictive power of two models (work unit structure and job design) in association with employee job satisfaction. Results indicate the work unit structure did not have a significant association with employee job satisfaction. Job design emerged as an intervening variable in the work unit structure-employee job satisfaction…

Applications of moderated regression analysis in five areas of job design research are described and fully illustrated with actual survey data. Moderated regression analysis was superior to a subgroups analysis for the research questions being asked by investigators interested in job design research. (Author)

Cites some examples of effective employment creation, but warns that this is likely to be more difficult in the future due to increasing unemployment and underemployment, demographic shifts, strains on social support systems, and changes in the nature of work. (Author/CT)

Steps involved in goal formulation performed by employees are examined. They include an initial goal statement, comparison of goal statement, goal statement challenge, and revision. Encourages the employee to express goals in specific terms, set up target dates, and recognize the relevance to the employee's job of these goals. (CT)

This article is a compendium of strategies for rehabilitation counselors and their clients to secure job leads in relatively painless ways. Traditional job search mechanisms, such as want ads and state employment services, have been shown to be decidedly ineffective as compared to a good first-hand job lead. Job placement is not an exact science,…

Contains 18 articles published in International Labour Review from 1921-1975 that discuss the International Labour Organisation, international labor movement and law, economics and the labor market, family security, full employment, population growth, industrial welfare, trade policy and employment growth, and income expectations and rural-urban…