NATURE OF WORK (6 films)

Duration: 30 min

Year Published: 1958

Creator: National Film Board of Canada

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: Sound

Description: 1. THE CLERK. A study of man and his job. Conflict for a clerk with dull, repetitive desk work between what he wants from his job and what his job wants from him. LC card Fi A 58-986. 2. DEPARTMENT MANAGER. The change in a man who has moved up the ladder from creative work, which he enjoyed and in which he excelled, to managerial work for which he was not cut out. LC card Fi A 58-993. 3. GENERAL FOREMAN. The conflict for the "man in the middle" — subjected to pressures from above and below, divided between loyalty to the enterprise and to the men under him. LC card Fi A 58-995. 4. MAN ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE. The assembly-line worker who ultimately pays the price for the benefits associated with our modern mass production. LC card Fi A 58-996. 5. SKILLED WORKER. Considers the displacement of the skilled worker by the machine. LC card Fi A 58-1003. 6. VICE-PRESIDENT. Looks at the man in authority in the light of what his status does to him. Often the attainment of a senior position involves not only the accruing satisfactions not held before, but the sacrifice of many earlier ones. LC card Fi A 58-1006.

Complete Record: Source: McGraw Interest level: sh-c-ad Price: ea $135 Format: sd b&w

Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)