Purpose: This study aims to investigate how various aspects of intraorganizational career advancement--current career attainments, recent pace of upward mobility, and future prospect of career advancement--affect voluntary turnover, drawing empirical evidence from a multinational corporation (MNC) in Taiwan's cultural and labor market environment.…

This study investigates the relationship between the students' understanding of the aims of an investigative activity and their performance when conducting it. One hundred and eighty-one year nine students from a public middle school in Brazil took part in the study. Students working in pairs were asked to investigate two problems using a…

This study explores relationships between teachers' organizational commitment and interpersonal conflict, participation activities beyond the classroom, and innovation in schools. Potential relationships among study variables are suggested in research that views affective commitment as a proxy measure for decisions to leave the school. Increments…

Examines a large, representative sample of Canadian radio newsworkers to update existing newsworker profiles. Finds that the degree of professionalization is not related to education or the size of the newsworker's radio station. (MM)

Legislative staffing is briefly reviewed. In dealing with legislative education staffing specifically, the authors describe and analyze significant characteristics of legislators and staff populations, and specify legislative education leadership structures in the 50 states. The impact of such staffing is discussed. (Author/AL)

Among the varied analytical challenges institutional researchers face, examining faculty pay may be one of the most vexing. Although the literature on faculty compensation analysis dates back to the 1970s (Loeb and Ferber, 1971; Gordon, Morton, and Braden, 1974; Scott, 1977; Braskamp and Johnson, 1978; McLaughlin, Smart, and Montgomery, 1978),…

The article lists and discusses elements in the development and implementation of an employee information system, such as planning and design, types of data required, selecting software, and documentation. (MF)

Reports the findings of a survey of over 1000 organizations reporting salary rates of engineers. The data are analyzed by industry group, supervisory level and educational level. (CS)

The data in this report are based on information supplied annually by the U.S. Civil Service Commission. A full report containing more detailed information on employment and occupational trends, work activities, and educational characteristics is prepared by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office. The mean average salary…

To obtain software suitable for school personnel systems, school business officials should consider forming cooperative groups to develop software and should also encourage entrepreneurs to custom-design products. (MLF)

The author explains why administration of human resources data systems will require personnel expertise and management skills in addition to technical database management abilities. He discusses the perfect database, responsibilities held by the human resources data administrator, and what skills this administrator must possess. (CT)

The author explains, in a step-by-step manner, how to establish an employee data system that can be used in a number of ways, including affirmative action reporting, compensation planning, and workforce analysis. (Author/MLF)

Describes the kinds of economic analysis that Fairfax County, Virginia, used to win a case charging it with discriminating against Blacks in its hiring practices. (IRT)

A table provides data on the collective bargaining status of various employee positions in school systems of various sizes. Figures are provided for teachers, principals, other administrators, school secretaries, building custodians, bus drivers, and teachers and principals in the same unit. (TE)

The first of a series of articles analyzing the results of the American Hospital Association's Nursing Personnel Survey, this article discusses Registered Nurse (RN) recruitment plans, modes used to recruit RNs, and the costs for the recruitment and orientation of an RN among hospitals classified by bed size, control, and geographic region. (SSH)