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Applegate, H. C. – 1974
To improve its response time on interlibrary loan requests within the Metropolitan Cooperative Library System (MCLS), the Glendale Public Library is considering the consolidation of its response process within the Circulation Department (CD). At present this response is a joint effort between the CD, the Readers' Assistance Section, and the…
Descriptors: Interlibrary Loans, Job Simplification, Labor Utilization, Library Circulation
Bayunus, Owais – 1975
A time and cost study and a work sampling study were conducted during the period of June 1974 to November 1974 in the Central Technical Services department of the Cornell University Library System. This department renders acquisitions and cataloging services to all the endowed college and departmental libraries in the system except the Hotel…
Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Costs, Job Analysis
And Others; Katz, Shlomo – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1977
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Job Simplification
Cohen, Michael L. – Personnel Journal, 1976
Points out why jobs are so demarcated between levels and then explains and illustrates the way jobs between the various levels are differentiated on the basis of unique results and contribution. (Author)
Descriptors: Employee Responsibility, Employer Employee Relationship, Job Development, Job Satisfaction
Shostak, Arthur B. – Occupational Mental Health, 1973
Through new attention to role expansion, physical environment design, hostility scalebacks, and information enlargement, we can make substantial new gains against off-the-job stresses that depress on-the-job performance. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Development, Conference Reports, Job Simplification, Labor Conditions
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Tchobanian, R. – International Labour Review, 1975
After pointing out possible prejudicial consequences of job restructuring both for occupational and economic interests of workers and for the structure and activities of the trade union movement, various trade union reactions and attitudes to work humanization are analyzed. Available from: ILO Publications, International Labour Office, CH-1211,…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Humanization, Job Enrichment, Job Simplification
Gael, Sidney – 1976
An approach to developing job task inventory questionnaires by interviewing supervisors or job incumbents is described. An initial interview provides the bulk of the information from which task statements will be extracted. A verification interview is conducted with a different interviewee to check and modify information obtained in the initial…
Descriptors: Clerical Workers, Engineering, Followup Studies, Interviews
Caddick, James W. – 1979
This manual for supervisors of rehabilitation workshops or plants focuses on knowledge, techniques, and application of work simplification and production standards. Four chapters providing introductory material discuss common goals of rehabilitation and production and human factors. The first of seven chapters (chapter 5) on work simplification…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Efficiency, Flow Charts
Levin, Henry M.; Rumberger, Russell W. – 1983
The changes to be effected by high technology in both projected employment growth and existing jobs seem to require significant changes in the American educational system. However, government estimates for the period 1978-90 suggest that employment growth will favor jobs that require little or no training beyond the high school level (for…
Descriptors: Automation, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities, Employment Projections
Hasty, Liswa E.; Bridwell, Terry B. – 1979
Developed to supplement the food service worker modules published in 1977, this handbook provides fourteen additional individualized student modules. The topics included are as follow: (1) personal grooming; (2) safe handling of food and eating utensils; (3) setting up tables; (4) handling customers; (5) menus; (6) taking and placing the order;…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Food Service, Hygiene, Individualized Instruction
Collins, Donald C.; Raubolt, Robert R. – Personnel Journal, 1975
The study, conducted in a large manufacturing firm, examined employee background and occupational characteristics and their relationship to the degree of resistance to a job enrichment program. Educational background, age, and kind of task performed were important determinants. Occupational characteristics were also relevant factors. (MW)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Educational Background, Employee Attitudes, Individual Characteristics
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee. Center for Studies in Vocational Education. – 1985
This document consists of a learning activity packet (LAP) for the student and an instructor's guide for the teacher. The LAP is intended to acquaint occupational home economics students with organizing kitchen work areas to enable kitchen workers to move more efficiently and simplify their work by making good use of equipment, time, and energy.…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Efficiency, Facility Planning
BCEL Newsletter for the Business Community, 1988
Critics call computerized innovations and other changes in the workplace examples of the employers'"dumbing down" of jobs for illiterate workers. Others disagree and say the changes free workers from routine, monotonous tasks and permit them to learn more complex procedures and to take on more responsibility. Findings of a survey of business…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Automation, Computer Oriented Programs, Efficiency
Fox, Willard – 1984
Productive board meetings entail well-planned agenda, effective chairpersons, and on-task focuses which avoid extraneous issues and fruitless, time-consuming discussions. Members should understand the agenda's chief points beforehand or be prepared to make pertinent inquiries which administrators anticipate. Tips for chairpersons include keeping…
Descriptors: Achievement, Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1979
This report describes twenty federally funded youth employment program models and innovations. Each four-page description includes the following: program title, name of operating agency, project costs, source of funds, number of participants, unique program features, duration of grant, major program goals and objectives, prime sponsor, contact…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs
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