This document provides the results of a 5-year comparison of characteristics of professional staff between the years of 1982-83 and 1987-88 in the California Public Schools. Professional staff members include all certificated personnel employed full-time or part-time and noncertificated personnel serving at the level of superintendent, deputy,…

Statistical data and tables are offered to indicate that expansion of women's participation in labor groups is not matched by an increase in leadership positions. (MW)

Summarizes a study that compares matched sets of Ph.D.'s from the classes of 1950, 1960, and 1968 as to marital status, employment, publications, income, and attitudes. (GS)

This study describing trends in library manpower in all types of Ohio libraries, with emphasis on public libraries, used three research approaches: an assessment of the number of librarians in the state compared to the number of library users, an examination of librarians' salary scales, and a questionnaire sent to all Ohio public libraries. In…

The purpose of this study was to analyze the available statistics concerning teachers in schools of general education in the Federal Republic of Germany. An analysis of the demographic structure of the pool of full-time teachers showed that in 1971 30 percent of the teachers were under age 30, and 50 percent were under age 35. It was expected that…

This report contains the results of an international survey of future studies, carried out between March 1974 and March 1975. The purpose of the survey was to obtain a profile of major futures studies activities--who is doing what, with what objectives, and using which approaches and methods. Of 3,000 organizations and individuals in a variety of…

This is a summary of the number of educational personnel prepared by institutions of the State University of New York and recommended by a state university institution to the State Education Department for Educational Certification. The period covered by this report is July 1, 1966, through June 30, 1975, with detailed descriptions of the latter…

After consideration of the organizing of university safety centers and the growth and role of such centers in the future, descriptions are presented of the activities and practices in each of 16 existing college and university highway traffic and safety centers. Information is presented regarding center objectives, programs, staff composition,…

Properly designed appraisal processes can result in higher levels of achievement for individuals and for organizations. Suggestions for one such system are outlined. (Author)

From the findings of his survey of a sample of computerized personnel management information systems currently in use, the author presents the advantages and disadvantages of such systems and recommends a model for data input and report output based on users' experiences. (MF)

Organizational environment and career motivations of Israeli engineers are examined in order to understand a professional's propensity to move. (Editor)

Changes in views of personnel selection research include changing opinions about choosing predictors and criteria, methods of data collection, and methods of evaluating selection procedures. Distinctions are made between job-relatedness, inferred from validity coefficients based on job-related criteria, and the valid measurement of a trait,…

Findings of this study indicate that an employee's estimate of his/her future tenure with a company is a more reliable indication of actual tenure than job-satisfaction or biographical factors. (Author/RW)

The entity-relationship (ER) approach to database design is defined, and a specific example of an ER model (personnel-payroll) is examined. The requirements for converting ER models into specific database management systems are discussed. (Author/MSE)