Assessing Work Environments for Career Counseling

Annual Review: Practice and Research in Career Counseling and Development, 1993

“…The second stage in career counseling, for the purpose of making and implementing decisions, is for career clients to understand their potential work environments from several perspectives. Salomone and Daughton (1984) reviewed methods for assessing work environments and recommended that career counselors use Moos's (1979) taxonomy of environmental domains to help counselees understand the world of work. Clients should learn about: (a) the ecological (physical) variables of an environment (i.e., the geographical, meteorological, architectural, and design variables), (b) the social climate of the environment, (c) the organizational structure of the environment (i.e., size of the work group and place; shape of management authority; rules of the organization), and (b) the collective characteristics of workers in the environment.…”

A Decision-Making Model Applied to Career Counseling

“…Neely (1985) and Salomone and Daughton (1984) have provided excellent organizational frameworks for knowledge about the world of work.…”

Parliamentary Socialists, the Statuto and the Giolittian System

“…Thus when Pelloux held new elections in June 1900 to weaken the extreme left, it emerged strengthened, despite heavy government interference. 22 The Socialists and their allies had turned in their finest performance. The very fact that the parties of the extreme left had cooperated with each other and with other liberal forces to save the constitution testifies to their growing political maturity.…”