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Johnson, Kenneth A. – 1984
Self-report ergometric inventories can provide valuable information to employers and can serve as a means of intervention to improve employee attributes. Based on the science of ergonomics (a science that studies the natural laws of work in order to maximize human efficiency in job performance), such an inventory focuses on the interaction of the…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Employer Employee Relationship, Evaluation Utilization, Human Factors Engineering
Download full textMiguel, Richard J.; Foulk, Robert C. – 1984
A study examined high school graduates' perceptions and employers' reports of hiring and job performance standards and employment outcomes one year after high school. The effects of vocational education, college preparatory programs, previous work experience, and self-concept were also investigated. Longitudinal data were collected by…
Descriptors: Career Education, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Employment Level
Kanfer, Ruth; And Others – 1984
Participation in organizational decisions is thought to have a number of positive effects on performance and worker attitudes, but it is not clear which elements of participation are responsible for these positive effects. The effects of two elements of participation, upward information input by the worker and the provision of downward knowledge…
Descriptors: College Students, Evaluation Criteria, Feedback, Higher Education
Bernotavicz, Freda; Clasby, Miriam – 1984
The competencies of the university secretary were studied at the University of Southern Maine. In addition to developing position descriptions, competencies that distinguish effective performers were also identified. Based on results of interviews with 24 secretaries, a competency-based model was developed. Fourteen competencies were categorized…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Competence, Efficiency, Higher Education
Thiele, Joe E.; Sloan, Charles A. – 1984
The impact of successful completion of the General Educational Development (GED) testing program upon the candidates and on the perceptions of their employers was analyzed. Questionnaires were returned by 241 successful GED candidates and 52 of their employers in DeKalb County, Illinois for the period 1970-79. Over one-half of the 428 successful…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Change, Educational Certificates, Educational Research
Cousins, J. Bradley – 1988
The ways in which principals use performance appraisal data for personal professional development, the characteristics of those who use such information, and the features of performance appraisal systems and decision contexts that are predictors of appraisal use were studied through a series of interviews at four sites (two with high appraisal…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Utilization, Foreign Countries
Jacobs, Ronald L. – 1987
This monograph proposes and describes a systems-based field of study for the training and development (T&D) profession: human performance technology. The first section describes what is meant by a field of study and professional practice and then provides a rationale for the proposal. Section 2 explores training and development in the context…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Human Factors Engineering, Job Performance, Labor Force Development
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. – 1987
The issue of parental leave following the birth or adoption of a child, or in the case of serious family medical problems, is discussed. Testimonies include: (1) general statements on the need for legislation regarding family and medical leave; (2) personal case histories involving the need for parental leave; and (3) presentations of official…
Descriptors: Employed Parents, Employer Employee Relationship, Family Health, Family Programs
Turner, Philip M.; Coleman, J. Gordon, Jr. – 1986
This study was undertaken to determine the extent to which State Education Agencies (SEA) are involved in either mandating or recommending school library media personnel evaluation procedures or forms to Local Education Agencies (LEA). A survey instrument was mailed to all 50 SEA's with a 94% return rate. Well over half of the SEA's were involved…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Job Performance, Learning Resources Centers, Library Personnel
Floyd, Jerald D. – 1982
During an 18-month demonstration period, the Illinois Occupational Program Initiative (IOPI), funded through the state's Division of Alcoholism, demonstrated the feasibility of funding individual contractors to create and market employee assistance programs (EAPs) to representatives of industry and labor. Cost estimates for the EAPs were to cover…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Consultants, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs
Iowa State Dept. of Public Instruction, Des Moines. Div. of Career Education. – 1980
This report offers a brief narrative and extensive data tables on an Iowa survey of employers of students who had completed or left preparatory vocational education programs during 1977-78 and became employed in the occupations for which trained or a related occupation. The narrative first discusses procedures, then describes some results shown in…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Employer Attitudes, Followup Studies, High School Graduates
Soete, George – 1982
This publication is a collection of library public services policy statements, which were received in response to a survey of members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in the fall of 1980, and additional recent statements. A concise summary of issues related to public services policies precedes the main body of the kit, in which 25…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Job Performance, Library Administration
Kurtz, P. David – 1985
Although school social workers (SSW's) are one of the few resources in the schools primarily designated to prevent and remediate personal and social problems that contribute to underachievement and deviant student behavior, many SSW's in Georgia are being replaced by noncertified attendance workers. Some educators claim that these attendance…
Descriptors: Attendance Officers, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Employee Attitudes
Burrell, Lewis P.; Talarico, Robert L. – 1981
The Student Work Performance Handbook is the sixth in a series from Project Employability (Ohio) designed to meet employability needs of trainable and educable mentally retarded high school students. The handbook is organized into five major components: (1) knowledge factors about applying for and securing employment (job sources, job application…
Descriptors: Employment, Employment Potential, Employment Qualifications, High Schools
Lauterborn, Robert F. – 1981
Illiterate workers in industrial jobs can endanger themselves and fellow workers by misreading warning signs and can cost companies millions by misreading instructions. The problem of literacy is also apparent in offices, where often dictated correspondence must be retyped at least once because of errors. Of 800 companies surveyed, 35% felt they…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Business, Industry
