The report details ways in which work is being organized to make it more pleasant and rewarding but warns that success depends on the cooperation of workers and the general public. (Author)

The article discusses how the increasing specificity of the design of a person's work in business will permit more effective educational preparation. (Author)

This report sets forth findings of a committee charged with recommending policies to create 10,000,000 new jobs through small business. It defines the problems of American workers and small business owners in a period of dramatic economic change. Emphasis is on solutions for the conditions that nurture enterprise and on what the country needs to…

Transcribed and edited from tape recordings and prepared papers, these proceedings present the topics covered in the four sessions of the Second Seminar on Freelance Indexing: (1) how to get started as an indexer--making contracts, setting up the office, billing and bookkeeping, reference tools, filing for trade-name, and indexing apprenticeship;…

Almost 50 percent of the nation's poor reside in the South where 13 of every 100 whites and 41 of every 100 blacks are poor. The southern industries of ranching, dairy farming, cotton, and textiles are suffering from movement out of the area and development of competing products. Most new industries are small, labor oriented, low-profit-margin…

To study the problems of developing a useful conceptual framework for utilizing workers in the field of social welfare who received training at less than the highest professional level, four 2-day symposium sessions were held during the fall of 1968, Approximately 13 participants, predominanatly social workers and representatives from the fields…

This manual systematizes the techniques and strategies that employment workers used in Jobs Now, the manpower agency which developed the coaching role that has subsequently been adopted throughout the country. It is designed both for those people with a general interest in staff-client relations and techniques and for those concerned with specific…

The second part of a 2-part report on job development in selected Metropolitan areas, this document contains an overview of the methodological approach to the study as well as survey coverage, procedures followed, and development of the survey instruments. Appendixes contain abstracts of the literature reviewed during the study and copies of the…

Changes in the job and labor markets are a critical concern to vocational education and call for curriculum development to deal with the emerging and new occupations created by advancing technology. The author presents a model to represent the developmental patterns for emerging occupations. (MF)

Under the influence of socio-technical theory, recent job satisfaction research has focused upon the areas of (1) the work itself, (2) the individual versus the organization, and (3) job design. This paper focuses on these three areas and explores some of the problems in job design for library employees. (Author/AWP)

Staff development in Great Britain is defined as a systematic attempt to harmonize individuals' interests and wishes, and their carefully assessed requirements for furthering their careers with the forthcoming requirements of the organization within which they work. Implications for introducing it into universities are discussed. (LBH)

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)