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This manuscript examines neoclassical economic theory's egoistic, hedonistic, and autonomous kind of individualism and argues that this theoretical perspective on self can be congruent with executive power and control behavior. Using ideal-types of models, it proposes how this kind of executive behavior can arise from ego-insecurity to stifle the potential for shared meaning and social integration in organizations.

The predictive validity of multiple-task measures (performance measures obtained when an individual performs two or more tasks concurrently) to flight performance has been frequently questioned because it is usually low and often appears to be no better than the validity of the corresponding single-task measures. Misanalyses conducted on the results of 14 studies demonstrated that the effect sizesassociated with both single- and multiple-task measures were both statistically different from 0.0, with the effect size for the multiple-task measures statistically greater than that of the corresponding single-task measures. However, the corresponding predictive validities were low, and the usefulness of both measures is examined.

RésuméL'apport des sciences sociales a été marquant pour démontrer que l'approche législative de la première heure en matière de discrimination était erronnée quant au fondement individuel et intentionnel de ce phénomène. Les études sociologiques ont identifié des sources et des effets socio-culturels qui ont permis de mettre en lumière les dimensions collectives et perceptuelles d'un phénomène qui s'avère social et complexe avant d'être individuel. D'autre part, un survol des principaux arrêts de la Cour suprême du Canada démontrent une évolution juridique de la notion même de discrimination vers la reconnaissance de l'existence d'un concept unique aux variables ṣimples ou multiples, homogènes ou complexes mais surtout indissociables. L'article se termine par une présentation sommaire de l'approche systémique. Ce modèle d'analyse des phénomenes complexes est introduit comme un outil utile et pertinent dans l'étude de situations de discrimination dite systémique.

ABSTRACTThis article focuses upon the decision‐making process in the household with regard to young women and factory employment in Java and Taiwan, and critically examines to what extent these processes reflect household strategies. While Javanese daughters may seek factory employment against parents' wishes, Taiwanese daughters may be obliged to submit to parental decisions and work for years in order to contribute income. The concept of 'household strategies', however, inadequately describes both situations, masking relations of power, resistance and inequality within the household. The assumptions underlying the concept of household strategies and their broader analytical implications are explored, leading to the conclusion that a more differentiated view of the household is needed, taking power relations and struggles between genders and generations into account.

In this article, the author summarizes a study examining the number and pattern of job‐search resources used by successful and unsuccessful job seekers.

Every social institution is affected by the way in which its internal processes are publicized. For example, the survival of the family as a social institution depends to a great extent on its privacy. It is almost impossible to imagine what forces in society might be released if all conflict in the private domain were thrown open for public exploitation.When E. E. Schattschneider wrote the above passage in 1960, (inThe Semisovereign People,p. 17), he could not know that the women's movement was about to resurface not only in the United States but around the world, and that one of its aims would be exactly to expose the "conflict in the private domain" of the family. The ideology of "the family," the power relations in families—these and other "family"-related or other "personal" matters would be questioned in the 1960s, 1970s, and beyond.

Sixteen male subjects performed a visual short-term memory task and a verbal short-term memory task alone and together. Half of the subjects responded manually to the verbal short-term memory task using a keypad; the other half responded vocally using a speech recognition system. Stimuli for the verbal memory task were presented either auditorily by a speech generation system or visually on a CRT; the order of stimulus modes was counterbalanced within each response group. Only the use of the speech generation system initially appeared to have a beneficial effect on dual-task performance. However, asymmetric transfer occurred under dual-task conditions between the combination using visual stimuli for both tasks and the combination using auditory stimuli for the verbal task. When the data affected by asymmetric transfer were eliminated, speech technology had little effect on dual-task performance. Possible explanations for this result are given.

Three large-print computers are evaluated in this article: the Apollo Computer Terminal System, the Viewscan Text System, and Visualtek Large Print Display Processor. The Apollo Professional Typing System, although not a computer, also is reviewed since it is an option with the Apollo Terminal System. The advantages and disadvantages of each system are explored.