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Educational Research Service, Arlington, VA. – 1990
A wide range of fringe benefit practices offered to superintendents are summarized in this report. Based on a national panel sample stratified by enrollment size, results are reported separately according to four enrollment groupings by size, per pupil expenditure, and geographic region. Data on leave policies, insurance coverage, retirement…
Descriptors: Administrators, Compensation (Remuneration), Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Experience
Robertson, David; Wareham, Jeff – 1987
Today the auto industry is going through the most radical restructuring it has experienced since its birth. Included in this upheaval is a dramatic reorganization of the workplace, and technology has been both a catalyst and a central part of such change. The issues involved touch every facet of workplace life: job classifications and demarcation…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
National Rural Health Care Association, Kansas City, MO. – 1986
The estimated three million United States migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families suffer from a variety of occupational hazards and ailments exacerbated by limited, or nonexistent, health care services. Although existing migrant and seasonal farmworker health data is incomplete, general statements can be made about the health risks…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Child Welfare, Disease Incidence, Diseases
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1985
This study assesses the consequences of the continuing and rapid introduction of information and telecommunications technologies in offices. The report of the study contains 12 chapters. After a brief look at the context of office automation from the perspective of history, the first chapter highlights some expectations about the technologies and…
Descriptors: Adults, Automation, Computers, Data Processing
Peiperl, Maury A., Ed.; Arthur, Michael B., Ed.; Goffee, Rob, Ed.; Morris, Timothy, Ed. – 2000
This book draws upon and extends a number of existing debates in the area of careers and opens additional dialogues on the future of working life. The book contains 13 papers, organized in three parts and an Introduction. The Introduction contains one paper, "Topics for Conversation: Career Themes Old and New" (Maury A. Peiperl and…
Descriptors: Adults, Biotechnology, Career Change, Career Choice
2000
Three presentations are provided from Symposium 32, Core Directions in HRD (Human Resource Development), of the Academy of HRD 2000 Conference Proceedings. "Exploring the Convergence of Political and Managerial Cultures in the Dominican Republic: Implications for Management Development and Training" (Max U. Montesino) reports a survey of…
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Adult Education, Authoritarianism, Developing Nations
1999
The first of the four papers in this symposium, "Examination of Critical Issues for Development and Implementation of Online Instruction" (Scott D. Johnson, Nilda Palma-Rivas, Chanidprapa Suriya, Steve Downey), reports on a descriptive and exploratory study that examined several critical issues affecting the development of online…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competence, Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education
1999
The first of the four papers in this symposium, "Trust and Distrust at Work: Normative and Dyad-exchange Influences on Performance" (C. Ken Weidner, II), proposes a theoretical framework for exploring and understanding trust and distrust in organizations. "Work Culture Adjustment: A Critical Ingredient to Organizational Change"…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Change Strategies, College Faculty, College Instruction
Kronemann, Michaela – 2001
Nearly 1,000 technical and further education (TAFE) teachers in Australia responded to a national survey to determine the impact of funding cuts, constant changes, and restructuring on their work and family life. More than 2,000 questionnaires were sent to a random sample of education union members, approximately 1,700 women and 300 men. In…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Educational Practices
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Kulis, Stephen – Sociology of Education, 1997
Discusses the gender composition and degree of job segregation among current and recently hired employees in four-year colleges and universities. Results suggest that the gender composition of an institution is more balanced where there is a relatively high proportion of women administrators, women students, and less emphasis on research. (MJP)
Descriptors: College Environment, College Faculty, Comparable Worth, Employed Women
Chliwniak, Luba – 1997
This study analyzes the gender gap at colleges and universities from an institutional context. It asks what the issues are; in what ways women and men leaders are different and alike; whether the gender gap matters. It discusses the glass ceiling in higher education and how it affects curriculum and administration of the institution. Five chapters…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Colleges, Consciousness Raising
Krueger, Mark A. – 1996
Job satisfaction, which can be defined as a feeling of fulfillment or pleasure associated with one's work, comes from many personal sources but can be nourished by supportive agency practices, daily interactions, and long-term goals. Job satisfaction is important for child and youth care workers because (1) job satisfaction and competence are…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Career Development, Career Planning, Child Caregivers
Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical School, Lexington, MA. – 1992
A study examined the nature and requirements of biomanufacturing work force development in Massachusetts. The jobs created by biotechnology and skill requirements for the different levels of biotechnology jobs were analyzed. Next, study task force members visited 23 companies throughout Massachusetts and interviewed a wide selection of personnel,…
Descriptors: Biotechnology, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, Educational Strategies
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1991
Hearings on family-friendly workplaces for fathers were held in an effort to help create a corporate culture that allows fathers to take advantage of and support different workplace policies. Fathers' impact on children's development, and the reasons why it is important for fathers to be part of the parenting process, are examined. Representative…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Day Care, Employed Parents, Employee Absenteeism
Rose, Michael – 1999
The contribution of occupational profiling to explaining and forecasting job satisfaction were analyzed by using data on job satisfaction for 33,249 workers from waves 1-7 of the British Household Panel Survey. Overall job satisfaction gradients were defined for major and minor groups of occupations in the United Kingdom's Standard Occupational…
Descriptors: Alienation, Attitude Measures, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis
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