Public Personnel Management articles from June 1998

Public Personnel Management archives from June 1998

Progress toward achieving a representative federal bureaucracy: the impact of supervisors and their beliefs.
June 22, 1998... More than two decades ago, the Civil Rights Act (as amended) required federal agencies to eliminate the underrepresentation of minorities and women in their work forces. This policy was given additional impetus with the passage of the Civil...

Strategic culture change: the door to achieving high performance and inclusion.
June 22, 1998... Inclusion(1) Broadens the Bandwidth Diversity describes the make-up of a group. Inclusion describes which individuals are allowed to participate and are enabled to contribute fully in the group. In reality, diversity is an attribute of every...

Managing diversity: the Department of Energy initiative.
June 22, 1998... "Nothing Changes without Vision, and there are three things that I want you to envision whenever you think about the Department of Energy: Environmental Health and Safety, Cost Control and Diversity." Secretary Hazel R. O' Leary May 6, 1996,...

Diversity: a principle of human resource management.
June 22, 1998... In a keynote address, for a diversity management conference held at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C., Ulysses Ford, Vice President, Waste Management, Inc. explained to the audience how the concept of diversity was initiated.(1) Using...

Diverse self-directed work teams: developing strategic initiatives for 21st century organizations.
June 22, 1998... The focus on diversity in organizations has gained prominence simultaneously with the movement toward team structures in the workplace. The concurrent emergence of these two trends provides a prime opportunity for organizations to merge the...

The Miami coalition surveys of employee drug use and attitudes: a five-year retrospective (1989-1993).
June 22, 1998... The past fifteen years have been characterized by popular concern with increased drug abuse as a societal problem. It became a workplace issue because of the relationship between substance abuse and employee productivity, health care costs, and...

Performance appraisal: maintaining system effectiveness.
June 22, 1998... The introduction of the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures and Title VII of the Civil Service Reform Act in 1978 ushered in an era of heightened concern regarding appraisal issues. Although a great deal has been written in such...

The emergence of collective bargaining in the Guatemalan public sector: a case of "Union Boulwarism"?
June 22, 1998... Much has been written concerning strategy and techniques in collective bargaining between union and management in a wide variety of international settings. Certainly the literature indicates that there is no single approach to collective...

Title VII sex discrimination in the public sector in the 1990s: the courts' view.
June 22, 1998... In the past thirty years, Congress has enacted a wide-range of laws aimed at bringing equal job opportunity to Americans. The major and primary piece of federal legislation is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (CRA). This act prohibits...

College education and police job performance: a ten-year study.
June 22, 1998... The value of college education to effective work performance is accepted among many human resource practitioners. Recently, the importance of college education to law enforcement jobs has also gained attention, with some jurisdictions requiring...

Representing the Agency Before the Merit Systems Protection Board.
June 22, 1998... Do federal employees ever really get fired, suspended or demoted? Yes, sometimes. When a federal employee commits a serious infraction in the workplace, the Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) is where only the most extreme cases of discipline...