Public Personnel Management articles from March 1995

Public Personnel Management archives from March 1995

Recognizing cultural differences: key to successful U.S.-Russian enterprises.
March 22, 1995... Historically, Russia has never been a capitalistic, or even a commercially-oriented country by western standards. Under the Tsars it was a nation of farmers, small tradesmen and craftsmen with the few major enterprises controlled largely by...

Learning from Japanese transplants and American corporations.
March 22, 1995... Henry Ford began production of the original Model A in 1903. By the spring of 1914, Ford was actually turning out two product sat his Highland Park factory: Model T's and a continuous stream of enlightened industrial pilgrims that ranged from...

Public sector motivation as an independent variable affecting career decisions.
March 22, 1995... While delivering a lecture some years ago at Northern Illinois, James Perry described the basis for a tantalizing notion he labeled "public sector motivation." His core theme suggests that persons choosing public sector occupations (the dependent...

A framework for individual management development in the public sector.
March 22, 1995... In the public as well as private sector, managers are asked to participate in many kinds of management development training. The emphasis of this training is particularly pronounced when one simply looks at the number of training advertisements...

An overview of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
March 22, 1995... Since August 5, 1993, public and private employers nationwide, have a new obligationuto grant, for any one of three reasons, up to twelve weeks of unpaid leave per year to their employees. A leave request may be based on (1) an employee's medical...

Employment law and workers with disabilities: implications for public sector managers and human resource practices.
March 22, 1995... The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)(1) extends protection against discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, education, transportation and communications to an estimated 43 million Americans(2) with physical and/or mental...

A comparison of district school superintendents' and school board chair's attitudes toward merit pay programs.
March 22, 1995... The stated purposes of including a strong compensation package, often in the form of an incentive program, in the educational reform movement were to attract and to retain quality personnel in education. In their research, Sparkman(2) and...

Defining workforce diversity in public sector organizations.
March 22, 1995... "Diversity" is being frequently used in the discussion of the workforce. However, in the lexicon of human resources management, it has not yet acquired a consistent conceptual meaning. The term "workforce diversity" in particular has been widely...

Observations and comments on 'Reinventing Government.'
March 22, 1995... Civil Service Criticized "The only thing more destructive than a line item budget is a personnel system built around civil service."(1) In the last few years millions of Americans have lost their jobs to overseas competitors and the ruthless...