Public Personnel Management articles from December 1992

Public Personnel Management archives from December 1992

The ADA: public personnel management, reasonable accommodation and undue hardship. (Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)
December 22, 1992... The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law on July 26, 1990. This article reviews and summarizes the impact of the ADA on the public sector, and discusses two key concepts of the law, "reasonable accommodation" and "undue hardship."...

Correlates of pay and benefit satisfaction: the unique case of public university faculty. (includes appendix)
December 22, 1992... The pay and benefit satisfaction of public university faculty is examined in two phases. In the first phase, a model containing only demographic correlates is used to predict satisfaction. In the second phase, the demographic variables are...

Pay comparisons and pay satisfaction among public sector employees.
December 22, 1992... When deciding if they are fairly paid, people look at both the absolute amount of pay and the relative amount of pay. The relative amount of pay is determined by comparing their own pay with that of others. This study investigated the relative...

Comparable worth: is it a moot issue? (sex segregation in the labor force)
December 22, 1992... Among the internal and external environmental influences on human resource management, no other issue has more social, political, and economic implications than comparable worth. Identified as "the working women's issue of the 1980s" (Hutner,...

Men and women toward the top: backgrounds, careers, and potential of federal middle managers.
December 22, 1992... Using a variety of data sources, this article compares the earnings, occupations, educations, mobility, handling of subordinates, interactions with supervisors, job satisfaction, and rates of promotion and turnover of men and women in...

The effects of hardiness, police stress, and life stress on police officers' illness and absenteeism.
December 22, 1992... A total of 60 police officers from seven suburban police departments were given a questionnaire twice over a six-month period. The results of four time-lagged hierarchial regression analyses showed that high levels of police stress and life...

The MBTI: potential uses and misuses in personnel administration. (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)
December 22, 1992... The Myers-Briggs Type Instrument (MBTI) is a psychological test that measures personality types and preferences. Until relatively recently, use of the MBTI in government has been limited. Persons administering the MBTI are required to be...

Due process liability in personnel records management: preserving employee liberty interests.
December 22, 1992... As public employers well known, the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution guarantee due process to protect property interests associated with workers' legitimate expectations of continued employment. Equally...

The brave new world of information technology.
December 22, 1992... Issues of safety and security will require organizations to introduce new job classification for the Information Ranger. As the workgroup replaces the work group, organizations must reinvest some of the productivity gains in the organization to...

Raid elections: another problems for unions?
December 22, 1992... One of the problems confronting the American labor movement is the raid election. In a raid election an outside, or challenger, union attempts to increase its membership at the expense of an incumbent union. This article examines the extent and...