This article examines work performance and incentive plans in three companies in an effort to identify the socioeconomic conditions and influences responsible for their difficulties in improving work performance. (Editor)

Argues that alienation causes indifference among workers which affects production adversely. (DM)

Presents developments in grievance arbitration in government employment by examining all public sector arbitration cases from 1971 through 1979. Predicts that issues of employee discipline and discharge will comprise the largest number of cases proceeding to arbitration. (Author/MLF)

This study focused on a sample of high schools and colleges in the New York City area. The data presented is noted to indicate a somber outlook, and nine specific recommendations are made which are viewed as moves that could ease the national mathematics teacher shortage. (MP)

Presents a weekly schedule of topics and related reading assignments for a social management and technology course focusing on technology, work, and productivity. Broad topics include introduction, historical background, problems of the contemporary workplace, and alternatives. (DC)

In this article, the Secretary-General of the Federation of Free Farmers of the Philippines reviews the scope and coverage of recent workers' education activities, identifies some weaknesses observed, and lists some points which will need to be considered for the future. (Editor/CT)

Concluded that the professoriate's increasing dependence on labor unions to defend its autonomy may not have any significant effect on the structure of institutions of higher learning, but may only erode the care principle of merit. (Author/AM)

NLRB v. J. Weingarten, Inc. was the Supreme Court's first opportunity to rule on the issue of whether an employee, called into an interview by his employer, has the right to have union representation if the employee believes that interview could lead to disciplinary action. Implications of the ruling favorable to the NLRB are discussed. (LBH)

How to measure productivity increases in service occupations is a problem that still awaits a solution. Efforts being made in the federal sector to gauge productivity growth are discussed, along with implications in private-sector bargaining. (Editor/LBH)

Contrasts "the unsuccessful attempt to organize farm workers by the National Farm Labor Union from 1946 to 1952 with the strikingly successful one of the United Farm Workers from 1965 to 1972." Argues that "the difference between the two challenges was the societal response that insurgent demands received." (Author/JM)

A survey of 79 British union representatives found that two-thirds approved of job evaluation as a method of determining pay structure. Also explored were labor disputes resulting from job evaluation and the impact of evaluation on collective bargaining, pay differentials, job performance, and career development. (SK)

Based on an analysis of oral history interviews, this paper examines the events and consciousness surrounding a 1979 strike initiated by 53 female office employees of the Wisconsin Education Association (WEA) Insurance Trust. Faced with sex-discriminatory working conditions, the women at the Trust responded by initiating a strike. For many of the…

Reviews current case law alerting public institutions as well as those covered under the National Labor Relations Act to consequences and problems of faculty unionization, including issues of conflict between the faculty senate and a union, exclusive representation, supervisory status of faculty members, and scope of negotiation issues. (JT)