The director of the ropes course at the recently privatized Bark Lake (Ontario) summer camp discusses differences between nonprofit and for-profit organizations and describes the group-based year-round outdoor education programs that were developed when the facility became private. Working within a profit formula can be more liberating but can…

The realities of the changing economy include social as well as political polarization of socio-economically diverse groups. The roles and issues of disadvantaged persons in the work place and in national economic schemes are the subject of growing interest among economic planners, politicians, educators, and human resource development…

Discusses leisure and the role it plays in people's lives and in their careers. Presents the author's "life-career rainbow" model, nine life roles in schematic life space. He discusses other definitions of leisure as theorized by sociologists and psychologists. (CT)

The purpose of this paper is to review the concepts of fiscal stress and decrementalism--a method of retrenchment management; to examine the consequences on public agencies and services; and to outline the challenges of human resource erosion for personnel managers and barriers to successful strategies. (SK)

To promote aquatic facilities, it is essential to assess the attitudes, needs, and desires of the community. Effective promotion, use of available community resources, and cost-effective operation are the realities of the future. (JMK)

Organizational cynicism, a recent entry into the study of organizational communication, explains the causes and consequences of employees' lack of trust in their organizations. Organizational cynicism exists on three levels: the cognitive belief in the organization's lack of integrity, the feeling of negative emotions toward that organization, and…

Examines possible reasons for declining employee motivation: greater instability and diversity of values; more guaranteed rewards; inability of rewards to satisfy emerging needs; disappearing work ethic; reduced costs of failure; rising income and progressive taxation; more group production and problem solving; decreased employee loyalty; less…

Provides suggestions for instructors on how to effectively motivate training class of hostile students. Principles of learning and motivation, lively training introduction, good instructor example, a motivating message, making learning reinforcing, separating feeling from knowledge, motivating with student action, and recognizing students'…

The history of the work environment and efforts to humanize it are related. Motivations for humanizing are discussed: worker welfare and the belief that worker satisfaction improves worker productivity. Efforts to increase humanization, such as legislation and efforts by labor unions, are also discussed. (CT)

Just as schools impart social, organizational, and political values to their students, business and industry training programs contain, in addition to the skills ostensibly taught, a large socialization component. Employee human and industrial relations courses should strive to foster democratic participation rather than subservience to the…

Faith in the effectiveness of personnel evaluation comes partially from its planned redundancy. Both supervisor and employee write with the second-level reviewer in mind, responding to what they think the other needs. The communication gap is caused by the lack of guidance from the reviewer regarding expectations and standards. (JOW)

Discusses changes in organizational design and staffing necessitated by word processing systems. Also presents results of an attitudinal survey of word processor operators, traditional secretaries, and administrative support persons. (JOW)

Suggests that a direct approach to developing positive job attitudes can be successful in office machines classes, as well as others offering individualized instruction. Includes checklists to stimulate thinking and to make students aware of positive job attitudes and work habits. (JOW)

The school administrator must instill ethical behavior in both students and employees. These two tasks need not have separate solutions. In working with both students and employees, administrators must eliminate barriers to communication, provide opportunities to engage in ethical discussions and decision making, and represent a model of ethical…

Looks at 10 hypothetical scenarios as a means of examining how technical communicators contribute to perceptions that they are less than strategic or central to the operations of companies. Discusses certification, conference attendance, professional development, client relations, and editing. (TB)