Public Personnel Management articles from June 1994

Public Personnel Management archives from June 1994

New age personnel - quality service delivery in changing times. (Special Symposium Part II: Emerging Role of the Human Resource Manager)
June 22, 1994... Many organizations must re-evaluate the manner in which personnel services are delivered to customers. Growing demands and increasing responsibilities placed on personnel offices have changed the nature of their work. Fiscal constraints have led...

Grade banding: the model for future salary programs? (Special Symposium Part II: Emerging Role of the Human Resource Manager)
June 22, 1994... Grade-banding represents a break from the conventional salary management practices that have prevailed since World War II. Interest in this innovative compensation practice is rising in both the private and public sectors and has been prompted in...

The structured interview: an alternative to the assessment center?
June 22, 1994... This article discusses how to improve the validity and reliability of structured interviews. A framework for the structured interview is suggested. The framework is based on the foundations laid by various researchers, as well as the guidelines...

Confronting adverse impact in cognitive examinations.
June 22, 1994... This paper is addressed to the issue of adverse impact in written cognitive employment examinations. Some myths about adverse impact are confronted and examined. Minority performance upon such employment tests is evaluated in relation to well...

Barriers to municipal government performance appraisal systems: evidence from a survey of municipal personnel administrators.
June 22, 1994... Performance appraisal systems are an important tool of personnel management, but not all municipalities utilize this technique. The study analyzed the major reasons why municipal governments do not implement a formal performance appraisal system....

Participants' reactions to subordinate appraisal of managers: results of a pilot.
June 22, 1994... Practitioners and scholars alike have proposed the use of subordinate appraisal of managers (SAM) as part of a multiple appraisal system. This paper reports the results of a study conducted in the Dade County Public School System to assess SAM's...

Mobility for federal women managers: is training enough?
June 22, 1994... In spite of affirmative action and equal employment opportunity legislation and recent numerical gains in the labor force, women remain underrepresented and underpaid in the federal government. This is particularly true of women in management...

The legal and juridical posture. (Comparable Worth: Is it a Moot Issue?, part 2)
June 22, 1994... In the first of a series of articles on comparable worth, the authors responded to the question raised in the first part of the title by exploring the topic of comparable worth from a historical perspective. It presented current statistics and...

Violence in the workplace: the role of human resource management.
June 22, 1994... The above scenario is not a pleasant one to contemplate; unfortunately, this violence filled situation, or ones similar to it, is occurring on an all too frequent basis in public and private sector settings throughout the United States. Murder...

Winning and losing in federal sector dispute resolution.
June 22, 1994... The Federal Service Impasses Panel (Panel) is responsible for resolving negotiation impasses between federal agencies and unions representing federal workers. This paper presents descriptive data on who wins and who loses with the Panel. It is...

Job analysis: why do it, and how should it be done?
June 22, 1994... There is an established legal need for job analysis. In an article entitled Selection's Uniform Guidelines Help, Hindrance, or Irrelevancy? Christopher Daniel points out, "Courts continue to decide selection cases, often deferring to The Uniform...

Managerial studies and perceived job performance: an Israeli case study.
June 22, 1994... This paper was designed in order to know how far skills needed for the future manager (according to the literature) correspond to what managers' students perceive as important, and how courses of a management training program perceived...

How the manager can use active listening.
June 22, 1994... When another person is talking, what are you doing? If you are like most people you are thinking about what you are going to say as soon as there is a break in the conversation. If no break appears shortly you rehearse what you plan to say. Is...