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This paper discusses the collection of information from and about people at work. It attempts to structure the field, define key problems, expose sources of conflict and point the way to resolving major difficulties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents information on the attitude of employers in hiring disabled workers in the U.S. Although positive attitudes towards the employment of disabled people did not necessarily result in the actual employment of these people, these attitudes did relate significantly to previous experience with the disabled. On the other hand, the positive attitudes of employers did not seem to be a function of external pressures to conform. Accordingly the authors stressed the importance of selective placement of disabled people. The topics of this investigation were employers approach to the employment of disabled people, and their experience with individual disabled employees, including people who had become disabled while in their employ. A semi-structured interview schedule was used but any further comments made by the employers were also noted. The employers were asked the reason for the most and least successful employee. Poor work performance was the reason given by ten employers for their choice of the least satisfactory disabled employee.

This selection from notes written by Dr Buzzard for the guidance of the staff of NHP is published at the request of other appreciative users and as a contribution towards improving the standards of reporting which the editor above all would like to see. It should be of particular help to teachers of adult students who suffer from sluggish or ill-disciplined words, to research and specialist workers who have to convey findings to laymen unfamiliar with the special language of their topic, and, we hope, to intending contributors to this and oilier scientific journals. Ed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reprints the article "The Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit," by D. Brown, V. Batts and C.E. McGougan, which appeared in the 1970 issue of the journal "Applied Ergonomics." Origin of the Medical Research Council's Applied Psychology Unit in Great Britain; Emphasis of the unit's research in evaluating the effects of various stresses upon working efficiency; Examination of conditions which are likely to cause impaired car driving.

An investigation is reported of an experimental training scheme designed to overcome the problem of speed and accuracy in the training of adult sewing machinists. The report compares the relative effectiveness of training by the traditional method, based on predetermined standards of speed and accuracy, and an experimental method, based on the linear programmed learning technique of gradual progression from easy to difficult items, without overt pacing and quality standards. The results show that the experimental method was significantly more successful. Theoretical implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provides information on a study which determined the importance of a subjective criterion or self-rating in job analysis. Application of reliability in self-rating; Validity of self-rating; Development of a criteria of job performance.

In an address to the Industrial Co-Partnership Association, Major Urwick discusses some of the problems involved in the association of workers with the higher control of business. Management to-day is becoming scientific rather than political—a task of co-ordinating the contributions of experts rather than of compromising conflicting interests. The new, scientific type of administration demands specialized knowledge and intellectual detachment. Workers who possessed such knowledge should not remain workers ; and members appointed to Boards of Directors for the avowed purpose of representing the interests of a particular section are by definition the reverse of detached. There are further difficulties connected with the committee form of administration. Major Urwick suggests that the solution may come through representation of the workers on a second body, behind the Board, and standing in the same relation to it as the Houses of Parliament to the Cabinet—a body with wide powers of criticism and review, but no duties of actual administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the impact of working conditions on the performance of an employee in a tin shop. The study observed some processes in the shop including rolling, locking, soldering, flanging and more. The study reveals that the provision of an improved layout, comfortable seating, setting of an official rest pause and other changes contributed greatly to the comfort and satisfaction of the workers which lead to an increase of output.