Handbook for Research in Cooperative Education and Internships or The Changing Nature of Work

Handbook for Research in Cooperative Education and Internships

Author: Patricia L Linn

This Handbook is designed to help cooperative education and internship professionals and employers design, carry out, and disseminate quality research and evaluation studies of work-based education. It offers examples of current, leading-edge studies about work-based education, but with a practical twist: The chapter authors frame their studies within a specific key research design issue, including finding a starting point and a theoretical framework; fitting research into one's busy practitioner workload; deciding on particular data-gathering methods and an overall methodological approach; integrating qualitative and quantitative methodologies; and disseminating results. Also addressed are questions and concerns that are relevant throughout the course of a research project: the use of theory in research; the role and relationship of program assessment to research; and ethical considerations in research.

By combining descriptions of exemplary research and evaluation studies with practical advice from top researchers in the field, this volume is a useful tool for educators and employers who are designing and carrying out their own studies, as well as a resource for what current research is discovering and affirming about the field itself. Educators from other fields, such as study abroad and service-learning will also find this book an indispensable reference in conducting research on experiential learning and teaching.

See also: The One Percent Doctrine or Jackie Ethel and Joan

The Changing Nature of Work

Author: Ann Howard

The Changing Nature of Work envisions the future nature of work, its effect on workers and organizations, and the expanded knowledge that will be needed to optimize its returns. The book examines critical post-industrial transformations in work, workers, and the experience of working and assesses the implications of those changes. It investigates what is driving change at work, what is constraining it, and where work is headed as governments, societies, and work organizations respond to its revolutionary thrust.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
	The Authors
1	A Framework for Work Change	3
2	The Political Context of Employment	45
	Political Economic Institutions, Labor Relations, and Work	52
	Government Regulation of Human Resources	67
3	Technology and the Organization of Work	89
	New Information Technologies and Changes in Work	97
	Form, Function, and Strategy in Boundaryless Organizations	112
4	New Manufacturing Initiatives and Shopfloor Job Design	139
5	Technological Changes in Office Jobs: What We Know and What We Can Expect	175
6	Human Resources and Their Skills	211
	The Youth Labor Market: Skill Deficiencies and Public Policy	223
	Enhancing Skills in the New Economy	238
7	Advancing Personnel Selection and Placement Methods	252
8	Changing Individual-Organization Attachments: A Two-Way Street	290
9	Careers as Lifelong Learning	323
10	When People Get Out of the Box: New Relationships, New Systems	365
11	Leadership in the Twenty-First Century: A Speculative Inquiry	411
12	Changing Conceptions and Practices in Performance Appraisal	451
13	Post-Industrial Lives: New Demands, New Prescriptions	485
14	Rethinking the Psychology of Work	513
	Name Index	557
	Subject Index	575