Public Personnel Management articles from December 1999

Public Personnel Management archives from December 1999

Editors' Introduction : Ethics in Contemporary Human Resources Management.
December 22, 1999... Administrative Ethics: In Theory Ethical considerations are both at the core and on the surface of contemporary human resources management. Important decisions almost always require a human resources manager to contemplate his or her...

Deontological Dimensions of Administrative Ethics, Revisited.
December 22, 1999... The administrator is always to some extent an initiator of values, partly as a representative of some interest group or groups, but also independently, in his own right. He can never by completely governed by others, and, as a matter of fact,...

The Morally Mute Manager: Fact or Fiction?
December 22, 1999... In a recent article in this journal, Dr. Charles E. Mitchell[1] delivered a sweeping condemnation of appointed and elected officeholders that neither accept nor act on their ethical and moral obligations. Dr. Mitchell asserts that there is...

Ethical Decision-Making: Global Concerns, Frameworks, and Approaches.
December 22, 1999... Throughout the world, public personnel managers have become deeply involved in organizational issues, such as increased productivity, strengthened quality, and improved service. With the global effort to institutionalize these goals came a...

The Public Service Ethic in the New Public Personnel Systems.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 1999... A "public service ethic" implies more than just ethical behavior on the job; it also entails a dedication to the public interest and a commitment to mission accomplishment. This essay argues that the political need to make the government look...

Performance Appraisal: Verisimilitude Trumps Veracity[*].(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 1999... Few administrative functions have attracted more attention and so successfully resisted solution than employee evaluation. Since performance appraisal is impossible, what actually happens is personnel appraisal. When such hypocrisy occurs,...

Morality vs. Mandate: Affirmative Action in Employment.
December 22, 1999... Affirmative action, one of the most significant public policies of the 20th century, can be seen as an attempt to establish a more "inclusive moral convention,"[1] which aims at achieving fairness and equality for all members of society. In...

Ethics Challenges: Health, Safety and Accessibility in International Travel and Tourism.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 1999... Enormous increases in international travel by public sector employees and others, along with incidents of terrorism, accidents, and disease, raise a variety of ethical issues not normally covered in the training of public personnel...

The Heroic Response to Terror: The Case of Oklahoma City.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 1999... The deadliest incident of domestic terrorism in the U.S. has special significance for human resource management because the target was government employees. Sixty percent of the 168 fatalities and 40 percent of the 647 injured were federal and...

The Facilitative State and Human Resources Management.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 1999... Public sector human resources management (HRM) today functions more-or-less globally in a Facilitative State era in which state regime theories and practices differ significantly from those of the nine decades of the Administrative State during...

Reinventing Public Personnel Management: Ethical Implications for Managers and Public Personnel Systems.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 1999... The need to ensure responsible administration in government is an imperative concern for the field of public management. The interest in administrative responsibility is crucial because public administrators are the people who place government...

OECD Supports the Creation of Sound Ethics Infrastructure: OECD[1] Targets Both the "Supply Side" and the "Demand Side" of Corruption.(Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 1999... OECD anti-corruption activity includes initiatives which address the problem from the "supply side"--the implementation of the Anti-Bribery Convention--as well from as the "demand side"--through work on public service ethics. The work of the...

Guidelines to Contributors--Public Personnel Management.
December 22, 1999... As a leading journal in public sector human resources, Public Personnel Management particularly encourages manuscripts from a practitioners perspective, as well as submissions on emerging national and international trends in public personnel...

A Model to Address Compression Inequities in Faculty Salaries.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 1999... This paper presents the details of an effort by Indiana State University to apply multiple regression analysis to the problem of eliminating faculty salary inequities. The services of a consultant were used to develop a multiple regression...