Efforts to determine the effectiveness of federal youth employment training programs have indicated that positive results are accompanied by persistent problems. Available from: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Rm. 456 GHI Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20250. (JD)

Strict adherence to institutional missions and close and open communication with public sources of support are offered to the community college as a defense against retrenchment. It is suggested that the community college should serve the needs of all adults to offset the declining 18-year-old population. (Author/LC)

Discusses sexual harrassment guidelines which legally define the term as sex discrimination. While this is good for those facing harassment, it unrealistically places a socially-based problem on the shoulders of personnel managers. Points out the long-term benefits of a workplace free from harassment and intimidation. (JOW)

Martin McBride, Hugh Henderson, Peter Dawson, and O. E. Gullander in a panel discussion present their views on the relationship between Canadian training needs and Canada's trade position. (Author/BP)

This article relates the poignant story of a foreign student's search for a college degree and a job that would take him back home. (Author)

If you're tired of facing students who have been waiting five hours to sign up for an interview, consider this method of scheduling. (Author)

In service industries, conflict at work is often covert and individualistic in nature. This issue analyzes such activities in a night club setting and is based upon six years of research. It illustrates how employees resisted instructions or sought to "get even" with those who had alienated them. Includes suggestions for management. (JOW)

Data from the National Employee Survey revealed a complex interplay of job stress, rewards, and job satisfaction influencing employees' problem drinking behavior. Satisfied workers were significantly less likely to abuse alcohol. Support was found for the spillover model indicating that work has important effects on behavior in nonwork settings.…

When written clearly and distributed correctly, employee handbooks often represent the first line of communication between employers and employees, and serve as a resource for employees' questions. This article discusses how handbooks can be unnecessary liabilities for Head Start programs and offers suggestions for the development of satisfactory…

In this article, the author discusses the perilous state of Chinese university graduates in seeking jobs. This pressure has given people many valuable insights, enabling them to look at the problems among university students and the direction of higher education development from a new perspective. To overcome this problem, the State Council held a…

The Job Finding Club model originated in the early 1970's with Dr. Nathan Azrin, a behavioral psychologist and was adapted by Arthur Mills and his colleagues for use in Canada Employment Centers. Job Finding Club is a combined effort by its members to help each other find work. The Job Finding Club approach was adapted for use with older job…

This article describes the Maryland Comprehensive Offender Model Program (COMP), designed to deliver manpower services to offenders while they are incarcerated and until they are placed in training or employment. Counseling was based on the Reality Therapy model with a high structured format for group sessions. (Author)

An experimental research project, Baltimore Employee Health Program (EHP), is seeking ways to identify and help workers with drinking problems while retaining them on the job. (Author)

Relatively little empirical research has been done on the supervisory referral of employees to employee assistance programs (EAPs). Inclusion of constructive confrontation (supervisory referral) into program standards and its continued promotion as a "central strategy" of program theory and operation calls for critical investigation of…

An Employment and Housing Subcommittee hearing on home-based work focused on typically female clerical workers. The following women were found to face obstacles to conventional 9-to-5 jobs: women needing child care, displaced homemakers who lack job training and experience, rural women, disabled women, and older women who encounter job…