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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED126362 AUTHOR: Berwitz, Clement J.
TITLE: The Job Analysis Approach to Affirmative Action.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1975
NOTE: 327 p.
AVAILABILITY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue,
New
York, New York 10016 ($19.95)
ABSTRACT: Based on the model used in developing the Wagner
College Affirmative Action Plan (Wagner College, Staten
Island, New York), the book provides conceptual guidelines
and methods for implementing the job analysis approach to
Affirmative Action plans. It should be useful to personnel
directors, employment counselors, and manpower planners.
The
book begins with the proposal that the technology developed
by the United States Employment Service (USES) provides the
most complete and effective methodology available. The
author's thesis is that Affirmative Action means good
personnel management, and that once this is achieved
through
job analysis and objective employer attitudes, government
prodding through legislation will no longer be necessary.
The first chapter reviews basic assumptions involving the
USES Job Analysis Formulation and the "Dictionary of
Occupational Titles", Third Edition (DOT 3) as well as
manpower supply-demand imbalances. Other chapters review
manpower-related literature; present an in-depth
description
of the USES Job Analysis Methodology and the DOT 3; relate
components of Revised Order No. 4 with the methodology to
implement the program at Wagner College; present findings,
costs, and benefits; and discuss policy implications.
Approximately 100 pages of explanatory DOT information and
Wagner College job title information are appended.
(Author/EA)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Costs-; Employer-Attitudes; Federal
Legislation; Labor-Force-Development; Labor-Legislation;
Policy-Formation; Program-Development
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *Equal-Opportunities
Jobs; *Guidelines-; *Job-Analysis; *Models-; *Personnel
Management
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