Public Personnel Management articles from June 2003

Public Personnel Management archives from June 2003

Procedural due process and procedural justice in the workplace: a comparison and analysis.
June 22, 2003... This article summarizes two concepts: procedural due process and procedural justice. It compares and contrasts these two ideas. It is shown that dimensions of procedural due process may be used to describe procedural justice. It is also shown...

Employee-proposed discipline: how well is it working?
June 22, 2003... In 1982, W. Edwards Deming observed that "People can face almost any problem except the problem of people... Faced with problems with people, management will go into a state of paralysis." (1) One of the most paralyzing tasks that managers...

'Hands up': mentoring in the New Zealand Public Service.
June 22, 2003... While the literature on training and development (T&D) in organizations is vast, the same cannot be said of mentoring as a form of T&D. Still, mentoring is now considered to be a mainstream tool for accomplishing many important human resources...

Public safety assessment centers: a steward's perspective.
June 22, 2003... In a recent chapter summarizing 10 years of assessment center research, Lievens & Klimoski note three changes in the conceptualization of assessment centers. The first is an increased emphasis on studying processes in assessors' judgments. The...

An empirical examination of inter-ethnic stereotypes: comparing Asian American and African American employees.
June 22, 2003... Several studies indicate that in the United States, those who are EuroAmerican, male, heterosexual, and physically abled inherit the highest-status demographic profile--automatically. (1) The dominant group retains the power to define,...

The changing face of Georgia's merit system: results from an employee attitude survey in the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice.(Department of Juvenile Justice)
June 22, 2003... The State of Georgia civil service entered a new period of history on July 1, 1996. From that date forward, all new state employees would be hired into positions outside the traditional protections of the existing state merit system. While the...

Personality of law enforcement officials: a comparison of law enforcement officials' personality profiles based on size of community.
June 22, 2003... The idea of psychologically screening for law enforcement candidates is not new, in fact as far back as 1916 behavioral scientists have been involved in psychologically testing candidates. (1) In recent years psychological tests have been found...

Clear logic and fuzzy guidance: a policy capturing study of merit raise decisions.
June 22, 2003... Merit pay remains an area of controversy. Although merit pay is widely accepted as a way to recognize performance, merit pay systems are problematic. (1) Merit pay systems can de-motivate and generate anxiety, and have been found to be only...

Employee perceptions of leadership and performance management in the Botswana public service.
June 22, 2003... During the past three decades, Botswana has acquired a reputation for sound development management and good governance. That reputation has been derived primarily from the behavior and performance of the country's public servants. Some...