Public Personnel Management articles from December 1998

Public Personnel Management archives from December 1998

Police officer candidate background investigation: law enforcement management's most effective tool for employing the most qualified candidate.
December 22, 1998... The Crime Bill of 1994 has generated a large cash flow of federal funds into state and local coffers for hiring additional personnel. In the rush to get the federal funding, many agencies have altered their hiring practices for police personnel...

Fire service testing in a litigious environment: a case history.
December 22, 1998... Since the mid-1970s, the city of St. Louis has encountered frequent litigation and court involvement surrounding the testing procedures used to evaluate candidates for promotion in the fire service. During this period, the city has expended a...

Candidate reduction strategies.(civil service applicant reduction)
December 22, 1998... Human Resources Managers are attempting to administer civil service selection systems to effectively meet the often competing needs of job seekers, taxpayers, hiring supervisors, and the many requirements of the legal, social and professional...

Implementing comparable worth/pay equity: experiences of cutting-edge states.
December 22, 1998... This article focuses on the experiences of eight states that have implemented comparable worth statutes: Connecticut, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, New York, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin. Montana did not find any gender-related disparities...

Effective communication in the performance appraisal interview: face-to-face communication for public managers in the culturally diverse workplace.
December 22, 1998... This article first restates and then extends a thesis about the performance appraisal process first published in this journal almost 15 years ago -that the public manager's performance in the face-to-face encounter of "the appraisal interview...

Job values in today's workforce: a comparison of public and private sector employees.
December 22, 1998... Unlike workers in the '70s and '80s who valued interesting work above everything else, the results of this study suggest today's workers place the highest value on good wages and job security. A comparison of public and private sector workers...

Antecedents of organizational citizenship behavior revisited: public personnel in the United States and in the Middle East.
December 22, 1998... The antecedents of self-reported organizational citizenship behavior were examined in two samples of public personnel. Data for the first sample were collected from 155 workers in the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation in the...

Making a good first impression.(employee orientation is critical to an organization)
December 22, 1998... First impressions are the most lasting. At least that's what we've been told since the time we were children. One of the first and most lasting impressions new employees have of their employer is how they are greeted and treated on their first...

The workplace: a battleground for violence.
December 22, 1998... The workplace has become a battleground for violence in society. With so much violence in newspapers, on television, and in homes, the workplace is not immune to this crisis. Employers will have to plan strategies and implement programs that...

The informal communication network: factors influencing grapevine activity.
December 22, 1998... Although the grapevine is an inevitable part of organizational behavior, we know very little about how managers perceive the characteristics and functioning of this informal communication network. A survey was developed to examine managers'...