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Oinonen, Charlotte M. – 1984
This publication presents Wisconsin employers' and employees' views of high school student work skills and competencies and their concerns for the future preparation of new employees. Section I explains the construction of the survey, the sampling procedures, and survey limitations. Sections II and III discuss the employer and employee…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Dropouts, Education Work Relationship, Employee Attitudes
Felstead, Alan; Green, Francis; Mayhew, Ken – 1997
Despite the prominence of work-based training in British national policy debate, published statistics fail to give solid data on training volume or quality. The Labor Force Survey, commonly used to give a picture of increasing training, shows proportions of training over any 4-week period rose from 10.8 percent in 1985 to 15.2 percent in 1994.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Quality, Employee Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Hollenbeck, Kevin – 1994
A study identified workplace know-how skills and characteristics that employers in Kalamazoo and St. Joseph counties in Michigan feel workers need to succeed and be productive. Employer input was obtained in fall 1993 at 12 focus group meetings during which a total of 103 of 192 invited local employers (a 53.6% attendance rate) completed…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavior Patterns, Community Surveys, Education Work Relationship
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. National Center for Research in Vocational Education. – 1987
This document offers the best available answers to questions frequently asked about vocational education by policymakers in vocational education at the state and local level. It is divided into two sections. The first section contains 15 frequently asked questions about vocational education effects and practices, each of which is followed by a…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Educational Benefits, Educational Research
Technical Coll. of Alamance, Burlington, NC. – 1985
This volume contains a curriculum designed for adult basic education students whose main goal is to get a job. Part 1 explores the problem of nongraduates who are often thought to lack even the most elementary skills necessary to gain or keep employment. It provides a rationale for reevaluating the traditional manner in which nongraduates are…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Course Content, Curriculum Guides, Employee Attitudes
Robon, Nancy C. – 1981
Graduates of the Legal Assisting Technology program at the University of Toledo were surveyed in 1981, as part of the requirement of the American Bar Association Approval Process. Questionnaires, which are appended, were sent to graduates and employers. In addition to curriculum, information was gathered with respect to the job placement,…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, College Curriculum, Education Work Relationship, Employee Attitudes
Carpenter, Herbert G.; Chernenko, Walter – 1980
This learning activity package, one of six intended for use in Industrial Cooperative Training Programs, is designed to aid students in developing a good employer-employee relationship by gaining the kinds of worker traits sought by employers. (The industrial cooperative training program provides industrial occupational training experience for…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Cooperative Education, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
Stecklein, Helen R. – 1978
As part of an effort to identify the unmet educational needs of the business community surrounding Metropolitan Community College (Minneapolis) and in hopes of better serving that community and increasing college enrollment, students from the University of Minnesota's master's in business administration program designed a study focused on…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Community Surveys, Competency Based Education
Boatwright, John R.; Slate, John R. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 2002
According to the literature, affective work competencies and personal-social competencies are but two of the terminologies among the plethora of captions employed to describe the set of behaviors commonly referred to as work ethics. The commonality linking these various captions is that all terminologies relate to the concepts of individual…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Content Validity, Construct Validity, Factor Structure
Lankard, Bettina A. – 1987
This learning module is one of a series that teaches the competencies of "Job Search Skills," part of the "Work Skills" package--a set of competency-based instructional materials written for low-level readers that prepares students with specific job search and job keeping skills. ("Work Skills" is part of the "Connections" package, which…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, Competency Based Education, Creativity
Northeast Wisconsin Technical Inst., Green Bay. – 1980
Employer and employee expectations and satisfaction with the mathematics competencies essential to perform in fifteen occupations were identified through mailing 1839 surveys (25% return) to employees who were 1977, 1978, and 1979 graduates of fifteen occupational programs in at least two Vocational Technical Adult Education (VTAE) districts in…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Community Colleges, Competence, Competency Based Education
Burton, John R.; And Others – 1967
This study was designed to obtain detailed information on the qualifications and needs of young people seeking employment in Connecticut business offices. Survey forms were mailed to every fifth Connecticut company listed in the 1966 "Dun and Bradstreet Reference Book" and other companies recommended by the Connecticut State Employment…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Employers
Newby, Howard L., Comp.; Herring, Keith, Comp. – 1973
This manual is an outline of instruction and unit lessons developed for and intended to be used as an integral part of pre-employment training programs. It is designed to provide training activities related to job preparation and employment. Emphasis is placed on encouraging each trainee to develop an awareness of positive personal traits which…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attitudes, Curriculum Development, Educational Programs
Baird, Mary; And Others – 1991
A survey of 177 employers of Wyoming vocational education graduates sought to identify skills and competencies the graduates needed. A random sample of 525 businesses both Wyoming-based and foreign (home-based outside of Wyoming) were mailed surveys; 267 survey forms were returned, but only 177 provided data for analysis. Findings indicated that…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Research, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
Henrico County Public Schools, Glen Allen, VA. Virginia Vocational Curriculum and Resource Center. – 1996
This publication contains worker task lists and supplementary information for five occupations in the business cluster: (1) microcomputer network technology; (2) customer service representative; (3) computer network administrator; (4) computer information systems; and (5) business manager. The task lists were generated through the DACUM…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Education, Competence, Competency Based Education
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