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Hackman, J. Richard – 1974
Job enrichment rapidly is becoming one of the most widely used behavioral science strategies for organizational change. And there is scattered but compelling evidence that, under certain conditions, the technique can lead simultaneously to both improved productivity and an increase in the quality of employee work experiences. Yet observations of…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Automation, Evaluation, Failure
Fantus Co., Inc., New York, NY. – 1966
Many branches of manufacturing industries have been highly successful in the Appalachian region; others have failed to achieve anticipated operating and employment results; and still others have suspended operations after a short time. This mixed history of accomplishment and failure has not been satisfactorily explained by traditional analyses.…
Descriptors: Development, Economic Development, Education, Employment
Social Development Corp., Washington, DC. – 1969
Prepared under authority of the Economic Opportunity Act, this New Careers report offers suggestions on how police departments can improve relations with inner city disadvantaged residents (usually minority groups) by using hard core unemployed community members to close the information gap on both sides, provide community services, relieve the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Indigenous Personnel, Inner City, Job Development
Futransky, David; And Others – 1972
This report grew out of the Contractor's work with three Federal agencies to restructure jobs in selected occupational fields and make necessary changes in training, selection, and other manpower practices in order to: (1) enable employees in lower grades to progress to higher grades not customarily filled by promotion from the lower levels; and…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Government Employees, Guidelines
John F. Kennedy Family Service Center, Inc., Charlestown, MA. – 1969
The report discusses the problems of the older worker (those 45 and older) in obtaining and maintaining employment in the state of Massachusetts. It also assesses the feasibility of redirecting and reactivating the older worker toward employment with the aid of job counseling and placement, job development, and comprehensive supportive services…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Problems, Employment Services, Human Services
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1973
As the seventh in a series of reports resulting from an ongoing review and evaluation of the Department of Labor's implementation of the Emergency Employment Act (EEA) of 1971, the report cites jobs in public service areas provided by EEA funds: law enforcement, education, public works and transportation, health and hospitals, environmental…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1969
The volume describes the PSC (public service careers) program created to secure, within the merit principle, permanent employment for the disadvantaged in public services agencies, stimulating the upgrade of current employees, and thereby meeting public sector needs. PSC aims to attack institutional and individual barriers to promote the most…
Descriptors: Agencies, Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Employment Problems
Katt, Beaufort C. – 1973
This case study is an analysis of the existing and proposed manpower programs of the United States with specific attention made to two of its broad components. These are education/training and public service employment, sometimes called job creation. Information contained in this work was obtained through library research. Current information…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Case Studies, Education, Government (Administrative Body)
Analytic Systems, Inc., Vienna, VA. – 1970
The main objective of this project is to demonstrate how a community action agency can operate manpower and economic development programs with continuing impact. The program offers: (1) training in four areas, (2) supportive services, including counseling and basic education, (3) youth programs, (4) economic development efforts to help the local…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demonstration Programs, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged
Yabroff, Bernard; Matland, Marc A. – 1970
The result of a conference on the employment of subprofessionals in human services occupations, this booklet considers the dual role of the schools in both preparing and employing subprofessionals to fill skilled manpower shortages. Noting that New Careers programs fail when administrators and professionals do not accept the subprofessional in a…
Descriptors: Career Opportunities, Educationally Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Human Services
Nalson, J. S. – 1972
The meanings of rural development and the impact on development of rural employment and labor problems are discussed. The influence on the interaction of rural development and rural employment and labor problems of the following are considered: the objectives of rural development in a particular country or region, objectives which are not…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Developing Nations, Employment Opportunities, Employment Problems
Fine, Sidney A.; Wiley, Wretha W. – 1971
Written for those responsible for designing jobs with career opportunities, this monograph is an outgrowth of the course "A Systems Approach To Task Analysis and Job Design." Major sections of the manual are: (1) Background and How To Read This Monograph, (2) How To Formulate Good Task Statements, (3) What You Can Do With Good Task Statements, (4)…
Descriptors: Guides, Job Analysis, Job Development, Labor Force Development
Gess, Larry R. – VocEd, 1978
The author presents an 18-point action plan to develop youth's job skills and job opportunities. He calls for a comprehensive youth development policy including job stimulation, mastery of basic competencies and employability skills, and the establishment of local-state-federal youth development councils. (MF)
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Cooperative Education, Employment Opportunities, Job Development
Johnston, A. Montgomery – Tennessee Education, 1978
Six ways for a professional educator to keep up with his field are to subscribe to professional journals, read professional books, attend professional meetings, travel, go back to a university, and engage in experimentation and research. (Author/KR)
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Improvement Programs, Individual Development, Instructional Improvement

Friend, Kenneth E.; Burns, Lawton R. – Personnel Psychology, 1977
Survey data were used to examine hypotheses about job size and satisfaction in a broad spectrum of jobs. Job size, higher-order need importance, urban-rural residence, and blue or white-collar job category were tested as predictors of satisfaction. Results are discussed in terms of three potential sources of variation in satisfaction: job, person,…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Job Development, Job Satisfaction, Multiple Regression Analysis