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Robert H. Williams, "The FEPC and the Minority Machine--The Conquest of American Cities" 1950
Topics: Fair Employment Practices Commission, Racism, Anti-Semitism
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Join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #talkgoodjobs. There's no denying that service businesses like retail and fast-food chains have been engines of job growth. But, these industries typically offer bad jobs—low wages, scant benefits, and erratic work schedules. And not just low wages, but poverty-level wages. Nearly one in four working adults in America cannot support a family. Why such bad jobs? Many companies—especially those offering low prices—believe it's the only way...
Topics: Colorado, Aspen, The Aspen Instititue, Youtube, Good, Book, good jobs, strategy, Trader Joe's...
AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DISCERN THOSE FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE CAREER DEVELOPMENT OF A SELECTED GROUP OF FORMER VOCATIONAL TEACHERS WHO (1) GRADUATED FROM MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY IN 1952, 1956, 1958, 1960, AND 1961 QUALIFIED TO TEACH EITHER AGRICULTURE, BUSINESS, OR HOME ECONOMICS, (2) BEGAN TO TEACH VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IMMEDIATELY AFTER COLLEGE GRADUATION, AND (3) TAUGHT FOR 1 OR MORE YEARS, BUT WERE NOT TEACHING IN THE FALL OF 1965. LONGITUDINAL TYPE CAREER INFORMATION WAS GATHERED IN...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Choice, Career Planning, Careers, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices,...
PREPARED AS A GUIDE TO PROVIDE UNPLEDGED EMPLOYERS WITH PRACTICAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE TECHNIQUES USED BY COMPANIES PARTICIPATING IN "PLANS FOR PROGRESS," A PROGRAM IN WHICH EMPLOYERS COMMIT THEMSELVES TO OFFERING EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY, THIS BOOKLET DESCRIBES ACTUAL SITUATIONS REPORTED BY "PLANS FOR PROGRESS" COMPANIES. THE FIRST SECTION OF THIS GUIDE DISCUSSES SUCCESSFUL APPROACHES TO THE INTEGRATION OF MINORITY GROUP EMPLOYEES INTO THE WORK FORCE AND SOME OF THE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Case Records, Community Problems, Employment Practices, Employment...
FIFTEEN CERTIFIED SECONDARY SCHOOL COUNSELORS PARTICIPATED IN AN ON-THE-JOB INVESTIGATION OF THREE SELECTED INDUSTRIES IN MONTANA--MINING, LUMBERING, AND CONSTRUCTION. THE PURPOSES WERE TO (1) PROVIDE THE PARTICIPATING COUNSELORS WITH ON-THE-JOB KNOWLEDGE ESSENTIAL FOR ENGAGING IN MORE EFFECTIVE VOCATIONAL COUNSELING OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AND (2) PRESENT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT IN THE COOPERATING INDUSTRIES FOR INCREASING THE CHANCES FOR SUCCESS AMONG ENTRY WORKERS....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Counseling, Counselors, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Practices,...
IN ORDER TO DETERMINE PREEMPLOYMENT EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ENTERING NONPROFESSIONAL OFF-FARM AGRICULTURAL OCCUPATIONS, THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY EMPLOYING FIRMS, EXISTING OCCUPATIONS, DESIRABLE CHARACTERISTICS OF BEGINNING EMPLOYEES, EMPLOYERS' FAMILIARITY WITH VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS, EMPLOYERS' AGREEMENT ON CHANGES NEEDED IN THE PROGRAMS, EMPLOYERS' WILLINGNESS TO COOPERATE IN PREEMPLOYMENT TRAINING, PROBLEMS OF CONDUCTING COOPERATIVE EDUCATION...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agricultural Skills, Cooperative Education, Curriculum Development, Educational...
DATA COLLECTED FROM 27 LUMBER MILLS THROUGH 131 SUPERVISOR INTERVIEWS AND 1,192 EMPLOYEE QUESTIONNAIRES IDENTIFIED 188 JOB TITLES FOR 3,871 EMPLOYEES. EMPLOYMENT EXPANSION WAS PLANNED BY 36 FIRMS, AND A DECREASE WAS EXPECTED BY 20 FIRMS. MOST FIRMS MADE EMPLOYMENT PROJECTIONS ON AN ANNUAL BASIS, REFLECTING THEIR ANNUAL BUDGET PRACTICES. TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES WERE EXPECTED IN MATERIALS HANDLING, PROCESS AUTOMATION, AND MACHINE SYSTEMS. PROMOTION IN THE FIELD WAS BASED ON SENIORITY AND ABILITY....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Educational Background, Educational Needs, Employees,...
PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS WERE STUDIED TO (1) DISCOVER LEVELS OF COMPETENCY, (2) OBTAIN DEMOGRAPHIC AND BASE LINE DATA, (3) ASSIST IN REEVALUATING THE DIAGNOSTICIAN PROGRAM. THE POPULATION, 209 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION (DPI) APPROVED DIAGNOSTICIANS AND 107 MEMBERS OF THE MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS (MSSP), WERE SENT QUESTIONNAIRES. TABLES ARE PRESENTED OF (1) CHARACTERISTICS OF MSSP MEMBERS, (2) DPI DIAGNOSTICIANS, (3) A...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Employment Practices, Individual...
DATA WHICH HAD SIGNIFICANCE FOR DESIGN AND DRAFTING CURRICULUMS WERE COLLECTED BY DIRECT OBSERVATION OF 21 DESIGN AND DRAFTING FACTORS WITHIN 16 SELECTED INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES EMPLOYING 869 DESIGNERS AND DRAFTSMEN. OBSERVATIONS COVERED (1) THE NUMBER OF DESIGN AND DRAFTING EMPLOYEES, (2) THE SYSTEM OF DRAFTING ROOM ORGANIZATION, (3) JOB CLASSIFICATIONS, (4) HIRING, TRAINING, AND PROMOTION PRACTICES, (5) PHYSICAL FACILITIES, (6) DRAWING MATERIALS, STANDARDS, AND SPECIAL DEVICES AND TECHNIQUES,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Design, Drafting, Educational Needs, Employment Practices,...
BASED ON SPECIFIC EXPERIENCES IN THE CINCINNATI SCHOOL SYSTEM, THREE CRITERIA ARE SUGGESTED FOR A TEACHER SELECTION PROCEDURE BASED ON ORAL, RATHER THAN WRITTEN EXAMINATION. (1) REFERENCES ARE VALUABLE, BUT THEY VARY GREATLY IN QUALITY. GREATER RELIABILITY IS ACHIEVED BY REQUIRING THE REFERENCES ON SPECIFIC FORMS, WHICH CAN BE ANALYZED AND SCORED. THEY ARE GIVEN A WEIGHT OF 20 PERCENT. (2) ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, ESPECIALLY IN STUDENT TEACHING, HAS PROVED TO BE A MODERATELY RELIABLE INDICATOR OF...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Records, Criteria, Employment Interviews, Employment Potential, Employment...
THIS WAS ONE OF 20 DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS INITIATED IN 11 STATES IN 1961-63 TO GAIN EXPERIENCE WITH LABOR MARKET PROBLEMS ARISING FROM CHANGING TECHNOLOGY AND MASS LAYOFFS. THE FUNDAMENTAL AIM WAS TO COMBINE ACTION AND RESEARCH TO DEMONSTRATE WHAT THE STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE COULD DO IN AREAS WHERE THE LABOR MARKET WAS RAPIDLY CHANGING. END-OF-YEAR PERSONNEL DATA FROM 1956 AND 1962 FOR ALL HOME OFFICE EMPLOYEES WAS COLLECTED FROM A LARGE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY PAYROLL TO OBTAIN AN OVERALL...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Automation, Clerical Workers, Comparative Analysis, Data Processing, Demonstration...
TO STUDY THE APPLICATION OF EQUAL EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES IN COMPANY SETTINGS AND TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF THESE PRACTICES ON MINORITY GROUP EMPLOYMENT, 20 COMPANIES WITH VARYING EMPLOYMENT STRUCTURE, INDUSTRY, SIZE, NUMBER OF BRANCH UNITS, GEOGRAPHICAL SPREAD, AND PRODUCT OR SERVICE WERE STUDIED. ALL WERE TRYING TO PROMOTE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES IN THEIR FIRMS. DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM UNION OFFICIALS, 134 COMPANY OFFICIALS, 205 WHITE WORKERS INCLUDING SUPERVISORS, AND 215 NEGRO WORKERS WHO WERE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Attitudes, Black Employment, Blacks, Desegregation Methods, Employer Attitudes,...
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS (1) TO ANALYZE SELECTED ASPECTS OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND REEMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCES OF 1,184 ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS WHO WERE PERMANENTLY LAID OFF BY 62 DEFENSE-ORIENTED AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONICS COMPANIES DURING AN 18-MONTH PERIOD ENDING MARCH 31, 1965, AND (2) TO DESCRIBE THE MAGNITUDE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA'S SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM. IDENTIFICATION OF THOSE LAID OFF WAS MADE FROM PERSONNEL RECORDS, AND 74 PERCENT RESPONDED TO A PRETESTED...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Aerospace Industry, Educational Background, Electronics, Electronics Industry,...
APPROXIMATELY 225 REPRESENTATIVES OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE EDUCATION, MANAGEMENT, LABOR, AND FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL AGENCIES PARTICIPATED IN THE CONFERENCE WHICH AIMED TO PROVIDE A COMMON PLATFORM FOR THE MOST INFORMED PEOPLE FROM MANY DISCIPLINES TO FOCUS ON THIS LARGELY UNEXPLORED AREA, IDENTIFY SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS AND TECHNIQUES, AND IDENTIFY GAPS IN KNOWLEDGE AND SERVICES AND TO CHART DIRECTIONS FOR NEEDED RESEARCH AND ACTION. A TRANSCRIPT OF THE FOLLOWING PANEL AND WORKSHOP SESSIONS IS...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Vocational Education, Career Counseling,...
FOUR MAJOR AREAS OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FOR TEACHERS, BASED ON A REVIEW OF HISTORICAL RECORDS, A COMPARISON OF EXPERIENCES, A STUDY OF RELEVANT DOCUMENTS, AND INTERVIEWS WITH PERSONNEL DIRECTLY INVOLVED ARE DEFINED AND ANALYZED--(1) FACTORS GIVING RISE TO THE BILATERAL DETERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, (2) THE CHARACTER OF THE TWO TEACHER ORGANIZATIONS BEHIND THE MOVEMENT, (3) LEGAL QUESTIONS RAISED BY COLLECTIVE ACTION AMONG TEACHERS, AND (4) IMPLICATIONS OF TEACHER...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining, Contracts, Employer Employee...
THE ROLE OF THE ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT IS ILLUSTRATED IN REPORTS OF VARIED RETRAINING PROGRAMS (PART OF THE ACTIVE MANPOWER POLICY) IN GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND SWEDEN. THE PROGRAMS INCLUDE SUCH ACTIVITIES AS--(1) FINANCIAL ENCOURAGEMENT OF INDUSTRY TO PARTICIPATE IN TRAINING THE OLDER ADULT, (2) RETRAINING TO MEET SPECIFIC SHORTAGES IN THE WORK FORCE, (3) TRAINING FOR FUTURE INDUSTRIAL NEEDS, AND (4) PROVISION OF TRAINING ALLOWANCES. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH DONE IN...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Dropouts, Adult Learning, Adult Vocational Education, Deduction, Demonstration...
OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRAINING OLDER ADULTS IN NEW OCCUPATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE POSSIBLE BY RECENT FEDERAL LEGISLATION. UNDER THE SPONSORSHIP OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, PROGRAMS WERE STARTED IN 20 RURAL COMMUNITIES TO TRAIN OLDER WOMEN AS VISITING HOMEMAKERS. LOCAL AGENCIES ORGANIZED THE COURSE AND RECRUITED THE TRAINEES, THE HOME ECONOMICS AGENT TAUGHT THE CLASSES, AND CERTIFICATES WERE AWARDED. TWENTY-ONE PERCENT WERE HIRED BY FAMILIES OR IN NURSING HOMES. THE STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE OF...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Action, Community Health Services, Community Programs, Employment...
CLASSIFIED PERSONNEL OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT REPRESENT BETWEEN 25 AND 30 PER CENT OF THE ENTIRE SCHOOL STAFF. THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY IS TO DETERMINE THE LEGAL WORK STATUS OF CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT THE 50 STATES AND TO ARRANGE THE COLLECTED INFORMATION UNDER FUNCTIONAL TOPICS. THE PROBLEM IS SUBDIVIDED TO CONSIDER (1) COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, (2) DISCRIMINATION, STRIKES, AND OTHER EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES, AND (3) FRINGE BENEFITS. THE RESEARCH PROCEDURES FOLLOWED IN THE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Collective Bargaining, Court Litigation, Employment Practices, Federal Legislation,...
EXISTING SOCIAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURES SHOULD BE REMADE SO THAT CREDENTIALISM DOES NOT ARBITARILY BAR NEGROES AND THE POOR FROM ECONOMIC WELL-BEING AND SOCIAL MOBILITY. GRADUATION FROM A SCHOOL SIMPLY IMPLIES THAT ONE HAS FIT INTO THE PROPER EDUCATIONAL STRAITS AND DOES NOT NECESSARILY SIGNAL QUALITY PERFORMANCE. CREDENTIALISM AND ITS CONCOMITANT RATIONALE OF EXCLUSION PREVAIL BECAUSE EMPLOYERS ARE FREQUENTLY RELUCTANT TO MAKE SUBJECTIVE CHOICES WHEN HIRING. MOREOVER, EMPLOYERS IN THE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Blacks, Business Responsibility, Credentials, Disadvantaged, Educational Background,...
TWO STUDIES, CONDUCTED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN WAYNE, OAKLAND, AND MACOMB COUNTIES, MICHIGAN, TO DETERMINE THE CURRENT AND PROJECTED STATUS OF EMPLOYMENT IN DATA PROCESSING INSTALLATIONS AND THE NEED FOR IN-SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMS, WERE IDENTICAL EXCEPT THAT ONE USED PAID, PROFESSIONAL INTERVIEWERS, AND THE OTHER USED AMATEUR INTERVIEWERS TO COLLECT DATA IN 212 COMPANIES. SOME FINDINGS WERE--(1) AMATEUR INTERVIEWERS COLLECTED AS RELIABLE DATA AS PROFESSIONAL INTERVIEWERS, (2) THERE WERE AN ESTIMATED...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Data Processing Occupations, Educational Needs, Employer Attitudes, Employment...
BASED ON THE FINDINGS OF THE TAYLOR REPORT, WHICH REPORTS RESEARCH CONDUCTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE CHICAGO LABOR MARKET STUDY, THIS PAPER DISCUSSES THE SITUATION OF THE UNSKILLED NEGRO WORKER IN CHICAGO. DESPITE SOME EMPLOYMENT GAINS FOR NEGROES IN WHITE-COLLAR AND PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONS, EMPLOYERS IN THE UNSKILLED MARKET CONTINUE TO DISCRIMINATE, AND MANY FORMAL AND INFORMAL SOURCES OF JOB INFORMATION ARE NOT AVAILABLE TO NEGROES. IF A NEGRO IS HIRED, HE OFTEN WORKS FOR SUBSTANTIALLY LESS...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Employment Opportunities, Employment Practices, Employment...
INFORMATION ON EMPLOYEE SELECTION AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES WAS SECURED FROM QUESTIONNAIRES RETURNED BY 215 OF 283 FIRMS EMPLOYING AT LEAST 100 PERSONS. DATA FROM 207 SEPARATE ITEMS FOR EACH FIRM WERE KEY PUNCHED AND TABULATED INTO MULTIVARIATE CROSS-CLASSIFICATIONS. OVER 60 PERCENT OF THE FIRMS WERE IN CITIES HAVING OVER 25,000 POPULATION, 40 PERCENT WERE BRANCHES OR DIVISIONS OF MULTI-PLANT COMPANIES, 50 PERCENT WERE UNDER 25 YEARS OLD, AND 53 PERCENT HAD BETWEEN 100 AND 250 EMPLOYEES....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Programs, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Industrial Training,...
THIS VOLUME CONTAINS PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE CONFERENCE ON EMPLOYEE RELATIONS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, HELD JULY 14-15, 1966, AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL AND LABOR RELATIONS AND THE NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. THE PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE WAS THREEFOLD--(1) TO PROVIDE A FORUM WHERE TEACHERS IN THE FIELD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN NEW YORK STATE COULD EXPLORE TOGETHER THE PROBLEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES WHICH THE RECENT LEGISLATIVE FAILURES...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Board of Education Role, Collective...
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS A PROPOSAL FOR A NEW TENURE ACT FOR TEACHERS. SEVEN UNIQUE FEATURES OF THE ACT ARE NOTED--(1) IT COVERS EVERYONE EXCEPT THE ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT AND THE SUPERINTENDENT, (2) PROBATION IS LIMITED TO TWO NORMAL SCHOOL YEARS, (3) EACH PROBATIONARY EMPLOYEE IS TO RECEIVE REGULAR EVALUATION REPORTS AND IS TO HAVE A CHANCE TO RESPOND IN WRITING, (4) A PROBATIONARY EMPLOYEE MAY TAKE THE SCHOOL BOARD TO COURT FOR WHAT HE BELIEVES TO BE AN ARBITRARY OR CAPRICIOUS FIRING, (5) A...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Boards of Education, Costs, Discipline, Disqualification, Employment Practices,...
THIS IS THE FIRST ISSUE OF A NEW PUBLICATION WHICH WILL PROVIDE PERIODIC REPORTS ON CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION. IT CONTAINS A 1965 STATE-BY-STATE SUMMARY OF NEW LAWS AND LAWS WHICH HAVE BEEN STRENGTHENED TO FURTHER PROTECT CIVIL RIGHTS. MOST OF THESE LAWS PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION IN HOUSING, HIRING PRACTICES, AND PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS. THE REPORT DOES NOT INCLUDE REFERENCES TO DESEGREGATION IN THE SOUTH OR TO LAWS REPEALING STATE LEGISLATION REQUIRING OR PERMITTING RACIAL SEGREGATION. (LB)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Civil Rights Legislation, Employment Practices, Geographic Location, Housing...
This study under the direction of the N.Y. State Commission Against Discrimination (SCAD) investigated the relationship of low incomes to social and economic discrimination against Negroes and Puerto Ricans in New York State. The scope of the study included analyses by various authors of the present economic status of Negroes and Puerto Ricans, the limitations of their earning capacities and income, and developments most likely to affect their future employment opportunities. For the purpose of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Blacks, Demography, Disadvantaged, Economic Status, Employer Attitudes, Employment,...
The purposes of this stud y were to test the dependability of stated employee selection criteria, to ascertain the degree of congruence between stated and actual selection criteria, and to determine the degree of change in criteria due to "looseness" or "tightness" of the local labor market. Seven test labor market areas representing a variety of socioeconomic situations, geographical settings, and degrees of looseness or tightness were selected. One hundred entry level jobs...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employer Attitudes, Employment Practices, Employment Qualifications, Entry Workers,...
The purpose of this monograph was to examine the nature of changes in the system of rights and obligations surrounding employment and the relationship of employer to employee in the United States, Britain, France, and Mexico, with particular emphasis on the property-like rights in employment. In the United States there have been three stages in the objectification of the concept of a job: (1) the period in which the employer-employee relationship was generally conceived as personal, independent...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Collective Bargaining, Comparative Analysis, Contracts, Employee Attitudes, Employer...
The purpose of this study was to discover whether job seekers can be expected to act on the basis of new knowledge about the local labor market, and if they do act, whether their probability of success in finding a job is increased. This supplementary labor market information experiment was conducted in a single employment service office and included 777 male registrants: 390 in the experimental group, 387 in the control group. Twenty-seven percent of the participants were Negro, 80 percent...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavior Change, Control Groups, Employment, Employment Opportunities, Employment...
A questionnaire on faculty work load was sent to the presidents of 57 colleges selected at random except for 3 factors: universities and colleges of the City University of NY were not included; the emphasis was on private institutions; colleges selected were primarily in the south, east and midwest. Of the 39 or 68.4% replies, 35 were from private institutions having a mean enrollment of 2405 and a mean of 229 full-time faculty members. Questions were asked regarding: the number of credit hours...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employment Practices, Faculty, Higher Education, Noninstructional Responsibility,...
The paid annual vacation is now the rule rather than the exception in conditions of employment in the United States. Collective bargaining and unilateral decisions by employers have increased the length of paid annual vacations and reduced qualifying periods of employment for millions of workers. In recent years the 4-week annual vacation has become the ultimate reward of long-service employees and the 3-week vacation has replaced the 2-week vacation. However, there is much reluctance to extend...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economic Research, Employer Attitudes, Employment Practices, Federal Legislation,...
The institutional arrangements through which workers are prepared and employed in selected occupations are examined to determine whether barriers to entry and employment are susceptible to elimination or reduction, and how labor shortages effect employers. It covers six occupations in the St. Louis and Chicago metropolitan areas: licensed practical nurses, medical technologists, electronic and metal engineering technicians, and tool and die makers and designers. Field interviews were conducted...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Allied Health Occupations, Educational Programs, Employment Opportunities, Employment...
The Industrial Training Resources Project is an attempt to establish a model for use of industrial training facilities in the vocational rehabilitation of mentally retarded persons. The present study was conducted to help assess the climate of employer receptivity and understanding of the project. The multiple objective included: (1) creating employer interest and participation, (2) training of supervisors who become involved, and (3) preparing retardates for assignment to employer programs....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employer Attitudes, Employment, Employment Practices, Industrial Training, Industry,...
This amended guide to the Child-Labor Provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act contains general information useful to employers and coordinators of cooperative and work experience programs involving employment of youth under 18 years of age. Included in the document are provisions relating to: (1) age standards, (2) coverage of the Act, (3) exemptions from the Act, (4) hazardous occupations, (5) employment during school hours, (6) age certification, (7) violation penalties, and (8) other...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Apprenticeships, Child Labor, Cooperative Education, Employment Practices, Federal...
A survey of 156 institutions using television and other educational media was conducted to determine the extent and nature of contracts or specific policies defining the rights and responsibilities of teachers using educational media. The survey aimed at both discovering present trends in policies and practices and forming a compendium of comparative information for future policymakers. Significantly, nearly one-fourth of those responding to the survey reported no policies governing the use of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Contract Salaries, Contracts, Educational Finance, Educational Media, Educational...
This book focuses on discrimination in employment, defined as the denial of equal opportunity in the labor market to qualified persons on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, or any other factor not related to their individual qualifications for work. The average nonwhite college graduate can expect to earn less during his lifetime than the white who has never gone beyond elementary school. Traditional patterns of discrimination have caused counselors and parents to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Black Employment, Civil Rights Legislation, Community...
The purpose of this study was to discover what private companies are doing in the field of manpower utilization. Aspects of the subject covered by this survey are manpower audit, motivation, temporary help, handling of job changes, and the union's effect on manpower utilization. Sixty-five percent of the participating companies employ 1,000 or more employees. It was found that 86 percent of the companies communicate company goals to employees, and 76 percent report that they take steps to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administration, Communication (Thought Transfer), Employer Attitudes, Employer...
The first part of this monograph represents the proceedings of a 1-day conference of manpower analysts on the processes by which private industry meets changing manpower requirements and the implications of these work force adjustments for manpower policy. The second part consists of the report on which the conference discussion was based. The report is a summary of two doctoral dissertations prepared under grants from the Manpower Administration and is entitled, "Internal Labor Markets,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Business Cycles, Conference Reports, Employer Employee Relationship, Employers,...
This project was the research phase of a 3-part program designed to define the potential demand by state and local governments for youth trained by vocational-technical schools. Eleven county areas were selected in Wisconsin which contained a vocational school and a substantial number and variety of government personnel. Budgets, personnel rosters, job specifications, vocational school course offerings, and other documents were collected and reviewed, and interviews with government officials...
Topics: ERIC Archive, City Government, Educational Needs, Employment Opportunities, Employment Practices,...
The study attempts to: (1) inventory the characteristics of all current full time post-high school vocational teachers in Wisconsin, and (2) learn something about the labor market mechanisms of the post-high school vocational teacher labor market. The population to be studied consisted of approximately 1,550 full-time teachers and administrators. Data were collected by questionnaires: 1,079 (70 percent) teachers responded, and 24 (83 percent) full-time directors of day vocational, technical,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Status Comparison, Employment Practices, Information Sources,...
This report discusses college faculty enlargement through the expanded use of part-time teachers. A review of current practices shows the most fruitful source of part-timers to be local business and industry, professional colleagues of the full-time faculty, and graduate students. There is little evidence, however, that part-time teachers are encouraged to use their professional competence, that they are accepted as professional equals or regarded as professional assets. Few universities report...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bibliographies, College Faculty, Educational Theories, Employment Practices,...
Functional Job Analysis (FJA) is based on the premise that every job requires a worker to function in relation to Things, Data and People (factors) in varying degrees. A level is determined for each of the three areas for each worker function. A measure of emphasis was developed by assigning percentages to weight each factor. The level at which a worker functions in relationship with Things, Data and People together with the weights form a functional profile. In addition to the FJA Structure of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employees, Employment, Employment Practices, Job Analysis, Job Development, Job...
Methods and procedures provided by 1,614 collective bargaining agreements to accommodate handicapped workers in New York State are described. Handicapped veteran clauses are considered; also considered are the prevalence and content of handicapped worker clauses, including transfers provided for in general terms, transfers subject to seniority provision, transfers without regard to seniority, preference for filling light work jobs, and adjustments in wages on present jobs. Appendixes present...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disabilities, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Labor Conditions, Laborers,...
Directed toward personnel in the Agency for International Development (AID), this document reviews the planning of AID educational assistance programs in developing nations. The report recommends that AID personnel should be in a position (a) to assign, organize, and monitor the planning of their own activities in the field of education; (b) to advise or inform host countries on the logistics of educational planning, including their statistical, institutional, and specialized manpower needs;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Developing Nations, Economic Factors, Educational Planning, Educational Quality,...
The Equal Employment Opportunity survey reported employment levels and information in the state of Wisconsin for 1968. A sample of 2,132 business firms employing 532,231 persons took part in the survey. Information categories were: (1) minority group employment, (2) major industry group firms, (3) women in employment, (4) employment by job categories, (5) apprentices and on-the-job trainees, and (6) area employment. A detailed analysis of the data is presented as a separate section of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Employment, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices,...
This is a report of a survey of 48 Lutheran colleges and universities, 11 Lutheran seminaries, 20 Piedmont University Colleges, and 17 other colleges and universities. The Piedmont University College System is made up of several small institutions in North and South Carolina. The bulk of the report contains tabulated responses of each institution to 4 main items of a questionnaire: 1) Arrangement, advantages and disadvantages of Saturday classes, if they are held (approximately 70% of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employment Practices, Faculty, Higher Education, Quarter System, Sabbatical Leaves,...
Conducted at the request of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education, this study inquired into the attitudes of university graduates and technical college diploma holders toward the training they had received; the relevance of training to the work expected of them; and how employers felt about the graduates whom they employed. The sample consisted of ten average young graduates in training conscious firms in several fields, and eight senior officers of similar (but not the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Graduates, Employer Attitudes, Employment Practices, Industrial Training,...
The "culturally disadvantaged" are men and women over 16, regardless of race, who live outside the mainstream of American life in urban ghettos and isolated rural areas. They are functionally illiterate people. The time for crash programs to employ these people has passed; the total involvement approach is necessary. These employment guidelines are a distillation of knowledge gained from research and from the experiences of private industry and the U.S. Government in its demonstration...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disadvantaged, Employer Attitudes, Employment Practices, Guidelines, Job Placement,...
This report gives the findings of a study designed to identify obstacles to career mobility among paraprofessionals in social service agencies and to make recommendations for opening channels for advancement. The experiences of a group of paraprofessionals hired in a special project in 1965 and 1966 by the National Committee on Employment of Youth (NCEY) provided data for the study. Obstacles were civil service requirements, professional standards, lack of supplementary training and education,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Opportunities, Career Planning, Community Organizations, Disadvantaged Youth,...
This speech advocates that Mexican-Americans must undergo a process of radicalization to attempt to transfer anger from deeds to words. This minority is losing faith in speech as a means of redress, but corrective measures should come through dialogue and not collision. Few Mixican Americans designated themselves "browns" a year ago--but it is now necessary, given the growing black-white polarization. This affirms the Mexican-American self-identity. Browns constitute the second...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bilingual Education, Civil Disobedience, Collective Bargaining, Culture Conflict,...
