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Public Personnel Management articles from December 1996
A quarterly journal focused on human resource work in the public sector. Contains articles on trends, case studies, comparative information, and recent research. Topics include labor relations, assessment, personnel policies, government reform and other a
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Public Personnel Management archives from December 1996
The impact of behavioral traits on performance appraisal.
December 22, 1996... An introspective look at the accomplishment and failure of Performance Appraisal Systems in the work environment during the past two decades brings us back to the reality that the ultimate success of any strategic program, whether it be...
Innovation in recruiting and hiring: attracting the best and brightest to Wisconsin state government.
December 22, 1996... The Department of Employment Relations (DER) is Wisconsin state government's central personnel/human resource management agency. DER's mission is to ensure that state government is staffed by a skilled, dedicated, and diverse work force. Within...
Labor and management work together in Connecticut's vocational technical schools to create a safer school environment.
December 22, 1996... The U.S. Department of Labor announced recently in its report, Working Together for Public Service, that a study of about fifty public workplaces found that labor-management cooperation and employee participation lead to dramatic improvements in...
Academic salary compression: a productivity model as a remedy.
December 22, 1996... Salary compression, in its simplest form, may be defined as experienced employees having earnings that (relative to new hires) do not reflect their years of service. More formally, "salary compression occurs when salary structures are not...
IPMA Agency Award for Excellence Award Winning Program - interview with the winner: Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. (International Personnel Management Assn.)(Interview)
December 22, 1996... Editor's note: In an effort to provide more articles of a practical nature to our readers, Public Personnel Management recently interviewed this recipient of the 1995 Agency Award for Excellence. The complete answers to our questions regarding...
IPMA Agency Award for Excellence Award Winning Program - Interview with the winner: the City of Alexandria, Virginia.(Interview)
December 22, 1996... Editor's note: In an effort to provide more articles of a practical nature to our readers, Public Personnel Management recently interviewed this recipient of the 1995 IPMA Agency Award for Excellence. The complete answers to our questions...
Job analysis in the TQM environment. (Total Quality Management)(Special Symposium - Adapting Assessment Systems to the TQM Environment)
December 22, 1996... TQM (Total Quality Management) represents a significant departure from traditional management practices both as issues of organizational culture and work design. Many management and design concepts associated with a quality environment are...
Selection in the TQM environment: what's needed and how do we know who's got it? (Total Quality Management)(Special Symposium - Adapting Assessment Systems to the TQM Environment)
December 22, 1996... Allow me to begin with a healthy dose of skepticism. In the 17 years in which I have had the privilege to function as an industrial/organizational psychologist, I have seen a variety of "movements" come (and go) - all of which were designed to...
Using 360 degree feedback in performance appraisal.(Special Symposium - Adapting Assessment Systems to the TQM Environment)
December 22, 1996... In the traditional performance appraisal process at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), supervisors and subordinates develop a work plan at the beginning of the performance cycle, the subordinate carries out the work plan, the supervisor...
Discipline and deselection in the TQM environment. (Total Quality Management)(Special Symposium - Adapting Assessment Systems to the TQM Environment)
December 22, 1996... "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary,"(1) This statement about the human condition from Federalist 51 posits a view of people...
Adapting assessment systems to a TQM environment - a practitioner commentary. (Total Quality Management)(Special Symposium - Adapting Assessment Systems to the TQM Environment)
December 22, 1996... Like many organizations, the California State Personnel Board has begun the quality improvement journey. This journey began following approximately six years of downsizing and was largely prompted by a need to more carefully deploy shrinking...