Public Personnel Management articles from March 1996

Public Personnel Management archives from March 1996

Improving race relations in a public service agency: a model workshop series. (Metropolitan Parks and Recreation Department of Jefferson County, Louisville, Kentucky)
March 22, 1996... With a generation or two, the steady natural increase of the African American population, Asian American immigration, and the dramatic increase of the Hispanic population through both births and immigration will change the racial/ethnic...

Race-norming and the Civil Rights Act of 1991.
March 22, 1996... The Practice of Race-Norming The practice of race-norming originated within the Department of Labor in the early 1980's, when the U.S. Employment Services decided to promote the use of its General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) to state...

Public service transformation and affirmative action perspectives in South Africa.
March 22, 1996... That South Africa is experiencing a process of formidable and fundamental change is undeniable. Whatever policies are decided by the new, non-racial democratic government, it will have to rely to a large extent on its administrative arm, the...

Forecasting sabotage events in the workplace.
March 22, 1996... Acts of sabotage continue to occur in the workplace. Even though organizations have created ways to recognize and deter these events, such acts are on the increase. Pacific Bell was hit by more than 450 acts of sabotage during a monthlong strike...

Sexual harassment in the workplace.
March 22, 1996... The first sexual harassment case to reach the U.S. Supreme Court was the June 1986 case of Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson. In this case, the Supreme Court recognized that Title VII could be used for offensive environment claims for the first...

Older dogs and new tricks: career stage and self-assessed need for training.
March 22, 1996... Several familiar truths relating to the work force and training in the work place are converging to present a particular challenge to organizations. The work force is aging rapidly and significantly. There is increased legal protection for older...

Disability policy: an analysis of the employment of people with disabilities in the American federal government.
March 22, 1996... This study examines the employment of people with disabilities in the federal government. By analyzing the employment data of the federal government, this study discusses various public personnel issues in the employment and advancement of people...

Manage work better to better manage human resources: a comparative study of two approaches to job analysis.
March 22, 1996... "Deming (1986) maintains that most variation (over 90%) is due to systemic factors such as procedures, supplies, and equipment not under employee control. Management's job is to reduce the level of variation, and to enlist the help of employees...

The influence of a merit pay guide chart on employee attitudes toward pay at a transit authority.
March 22, 1996... Compensation systems in the public sector have multiple goals that include attracting qualified employees, retaining those individuals, and motivating their performance. To motivate employees with pay, Lawler[1] prescribed strong linkages between...

Arbitration in practice: a profile of public sector arbitration cases.
March 22, 1996... Union membership in the public sector has grown rapidly, particularly at the state and local levels (Klingner, 1993). More than one-third of state government employees belong to unions as do almost one-half of people employed by local governments...