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Public Personnel Management articles from December 2000
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 2000
Editor's Introduction.(Public Personnel Management, overview)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... There is probably no greater challenge in public sector human resources today than recruiting and hiring talented people. Across the nation, governments at all levels face the daunting challenge of recruiting in the most competitive labor...
Beware and Prepare: The Government Workforce of the Future.(demographics and analysis)(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2000... A crisis is looming in governments across the nation, and yet few are taking heed. The crisis is one that, in hindsight, would have been easy to predict and relatively simple to address. However, few jurisdictions are taking the time, energy,...
Responding to the Challenge of a Changing Workforce: Recruiting Nontraditional Demographic Groups.(research)
December 22, 2000... As a result of a shortage of qualified applicants and the changing nature of the demographic composition of the workforce, there has been a recent increase in interest among human resource professionals in the targeting of recruitment efforts...
Finding the Needle in the Haystack: The Challenge of Recruiting and Retaining Sharp Employees.(with changing demographics)(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2000... Today's employers, both public and private, are facing a crisis never before experienced in most managers' and supervisors' careers. This crisis is having a direct impact on the ability of organizations to meet the ever-growing demand for their...
Developing Staffing Strategies That Work: Implementing Pragmatic, Nontraditional Approaches.(human resources planning)
December 22, 2000... Most organizations understand the benefits that a longer-term approach to staff planning can bring. Many actually attempt to develop staffing strategies (or strategic workforce plans, as they are also known). Unfortunately, these organizations...
The Quest for the Qualified Job Surfer: It's Time the Public Sector Catches the Wave.(employee recruitment using the Internet)
December 22, 2000... Organizational use of Internet recruiting has dramatically increased in the last five years. However, there has been little research to guide the development of organizational employment Web pages. This paper first outlines the reasons why...
Applying For Jobs Online: Examining the Legality of Internet-Based Application Forms.(research)(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2000... The content of 41 Internet-based state applications were examined for their compliance with EEO guidelines. The results indicated that 97.5% of the application forms possessed at least one inadvisable question, with an average of 4.2 per form....
Nebraska "Whole Picture" Recruitment: From Paperwork to "People Work" Featuring the Personic Applicant Tracking System.(government personnel management automation)
December 22, 2000... Approximately four years ago Nebraska began to take a serious look at e-recruiting and how we might best serve the citizens of Nebraska. We faced not only the problem of an extreme labor shortage, but that our labor intensive method of matching...
Experience -- It "Ain't What It Used To Be" : It's Time to Kill the Sacred Cow of Job Experience in Recruiting.(changing technology, deomographics)
December 22, 2000... Warning: This article will make you think...read on with caution! Recruiters often complain there is a shortage of qualified candidates but a good portion of the "shortage" comes from an over reliance on the number of years of experience a...
The HRM Effectiveness Audit: A Tool for Managing Accountability in HRM.(Human resource management)
December 22, 2000... Both public sector and not-for-profit organizations continue to wrestle with the challenges of defining and managing organizational effectiveness. Human resource management teams are drawn increasingly into new strategic and operational...
Observed Divergence in the Attitudes of Incumbents and Supervisors as Subject Matter Experts in Job Analysis: A Study of the Fire Captain Rank.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2000... This study compares the attitudes of incumbent Fire Captains and their supervisors regarding critical aspects of a Fire Captain's job. Fire Captains and supervisors (Fire Chief, Deputy Fire Chiefs, and Division Chiefs) were held as separate...
Evidence of Strategic HRM Linkages in Eleven Australian Corporatized Public Sector Organizations[1].(human resource management, research)(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2000... This study explores the adoption of strategic human resource management (HRM) by examining the extent of linkages between HRM and business planning using the Golden and Ramnujam's (1985) strategic integration framework. The sample is drawn from...