Discusses the need for improved training, counseling, and job placement to reduce the employment problems which are a major factor in recidivism. This special issue of Manpower is entitled Making Prison Training Work." (BH)

Includes 57 references on sexual harassment in the workplace and on campus. Includes information on rights and remedies. (PD)

Vocational rehabilitation students rated three physically handicapped groups and three nonphysically handicapped groups on the Personal Attribute Inventory. Groups were ranked in the order students prefered to work with them. Results indicated students described the handicapped groups more positively, but preferred to work with the nonhandicapped…

Compared the Job Club method with an alternative method, using clients who had job-finding problems, such as physical, emotional, intellectual, and social handicaps, or long-term unemployment. Results suggest that virtually all handicapped or "hard-core" unemployed persons can obtain and retain a job under an intensive Job Club program.…

Members of the educational community and the employment sector need to cooperate to overcome barriers that prevent special needs learners from making the transition from school to work. Cooperation should lead to improvement in the recruitment, hiring, and promotion of special needs persons. (CT)

Discusses Employee Assistance Programs' (EAP) relationship to other personnel programs, the structure and basic components, and guidelines for choosing a consultant. (Author/MLF)

The authors analyze three major hypotheses for the worsening youth employment situation in Europe: demographic, cyclical, and structural; and review the advantages and disadvantages of various policies designed to lessen youth unemployment. (SJL)

Responses from 396 women and 316 men with caregiving responsibilities showed that eldercare significantly interfered with women's jobs, but not with men's. Family responsibilities were related to women's job dissatisfaction and absenteeism. Work's interference with family was associated with job costs for both genders and with job…

Discusses results of several Canadian studies of teacher-workload issues related to family life, teaching stress and satisfaction, and physical and mental health. (Contains 16 references.) (PKP)

Discusses three issues faced by human resources managers: (1) the current relationship between work and the family, (2) the business problems created when work and family overlap, and (3) actions that businesses can take to improve the situation. (JOW)

A brief description of the notion of patriarchy and the feminization of teaching precedes a discussion of a core of central issues that profeminist male elementary school teachers are likely to confront, involving male privilege and domination, the teacher-child relationship, advocate versus technician roles, collegialism, and the…

The Immigration and Reform Control Act of 1986, or IRCA, prohibits employers from knowingly hiring any alien not authorized to work in the United States. Congress passed an antidiscrimination provision, part of IRCA, which prohibits smaller employers from committing national origin discrimination. Reviews this topic. (JBJ)

Discusses common challenges in motivating student employees, recommends motivational methods and supervisory management styles, and describes how the system works when these recommendations are used. It is concluded that supervisors need to implement student employment policies and activities that maximize student employee usefulness and…

Uses family discourse perspective to analyze social relations in a Work Incentive Program (WIN). Analysis focuses on ways in which WIN staff members oriented to and assessed family as an excuse and extenuating circumstance, instructed clients on the organizationally preferred relationship between WIN and family, and responded to clients whom they…