The basic causes of job dissatisfaction, poor work attitudes, and unreliable employment habits of Blacks are discussed. Solutions, like the problems, are interrelated and can reinforce each other. (Author)

This study examined the relationships between the use of five conflict resolution strategies (withdrawing, smoothing, compromising, forcing, and confronting) and three measures of employee commitment (commitment to the organization, profession, and community). The relationships varied between the different types of commitment and between…

Analyzes 2,250 responses to employee questionnaires that measured seven variables related to employees' perceived centrality of work. Statistical analysis of the data generally supports the conventional wisdom that males generally consider work more central than females. (JG)

Refutes several myths about women and job commitment; discusses why women work and how they become job-committed. Tells how human resources development and personnel policy can help individuals become job-committed. (CH)

Explores factors related to employees' willingness to join one type of participatory program, quality circles. Discovers that volunteers are less satisfied with key aspects of their jobs but are committed to the organization and join groups to improve their work life. (MS)

Examined 1,300 employees at three California prisons. Fieldwork supported claim that male staff are negatively oriented toward female employees and that women staff and women's prisons receive low priority from male-dominated state agencies. Survey of employees revealed little gender differences in work adjustment. (Author/NB)

Public and industrial accountants (N=425) completed the California Psychological Inventory (CPI). CPI scales successfully discriminated suboccupations within male and female samples. Results indicated that individuals belonging to intraoccupational concentrations were distinguishable in terms of personality, perceived work climate, and outcome…

Investigated the development of general attitudes toward work in career transitions of Israeli junior and senior high school students, university students, and vocational and executive trainees. The results confirmed the role of expectations in attitude formation. Similar expectations as to status and advancement led to similar attitudes. (JAC)

A questionnaire survey was made of 414 teachers and 482 registered nurses from three hospitals in western New York. The purpose of the survey was to investigate variation between teachers and nurses, the reasons for their attitudinal militancy, and why teachers are more militant than nurses. (DS)

Attitude survey techniques used in the study enable management to identify dissatisfaction in advance of visible signs of unrest and take corrective action. (MS)

Describes the often overlooked problem of employee absenteeism and makes suggestions for positive control of the problem. (AN)

Examines possible reasons for declining employee motivation: greater instability and diversity of values; more guaranteed rewards; inability of rewards to satisfy emerging needs; disappearing work ethic; reduced costs of failure; rising income and progressive taxation; more group production and problem solving; decreased employee loyalty; less…

The history of the work environment and efforts to humanize it are related. Motivations for humanizing are discussed: worker welfare and the belief that worker satisfaction improves worker productivity. Efforts to increase humanization, such as legislation and efforts by labor unions, are also discussed. (CT)

Reports some of the findings about the problems of adult writers taken from a survey of 254 top-level and mid-level managers. (HOD)