Public Personnel Management articles from March 1997

Public Personnel Management archives from March 1997

Human resource assessment - the link to mission.
March 22, 1997... In a recent Fortune magazine article, Thomas Stewart asked the penetrating question about human resources - "Why not blow the sucker up"? Later in that article, Mr. Stewart described two human resource trends - the outsourcing of employee...

Save the bureaucrats (while reinventing them).
March 22, 1997... Administrative occupations in the federal government are under the gun. According to the National Performance Review: "Most of the personnel reductions will be concentrated in the structures of over-control and micromanagement that now bind the...

Cultural diversity programs to prepare for work force 2000: What's gone wrong?
March 22, 1997... "Cultural diversity" has become the buzzword for the 1990s. We hear less and less about equal employment opportunity and affirmative action efforts and programs, but hear more about multiculturalism, managing cultural diversity, and diversity...

The restructuring of jobs for the year 2000.
March 22, 1997... Periodic reductions in a company's work force to improve its bottom line, often called downsizing, are becoming standard business practice. This practice has occurred even among firms once legendary for their "No Layoff" policies, such as IBM,...

Not with your husband (or wife) you don't! The legality of no spouse rules in the workplace.
March 22, 1997... Many employers, both public and private sector, have policies prohibiting the employment of relatives. These policies are usually referred to as "anti-nepotism" policies. The scope of these policies vary along several lines. Some apply only to...

Employment-related drug testing: idiosyncratic characteristics and issues.
March 22, 1997... In recent years, the pervasiveness of drug and alcohol abuse in the United States has become a growing concern. In an attempt to minimize the potential costs and ramifications of substance abuse, organizations have initiated programs of both...

Direction for developing the Korean civil service system.
March 22, 1997... To keep pace with the trend toward a stronger and wider scope of administrative authority, quantitative and qualitative changes in public administration, in the areas of specialization, technology, and efficiency, governments seek more...

An overview and assessment of comparable worth based on a large scale implementation.
March 22, 1997... In many ways, the historical aspects of Canadian public policy concerning gender-based wage discrimination have undergone a development similar to that of the United States. Although the concept of comparable worth is a relatively new phenomenon,...

Designing a safety net for disabled employees.
March 22, 1997... Lois, a Senior Clerk Typist exhibits bizarre behavior that upsets her co-workers and results in severely curtailing the office's productivity. Management wanted to fire her. Lois' lawyer insists that management make some reasonable accommodation....

The effects of organization-based self-esteem on workplace outcomes: an examination of emergency medical technicians.
March 22, 1997... It has been persuasively argued that due to the high degree of situational strength characterizing most organizational contexts, personality exerts relatively little influence in the workplace. But one personality attribute that predictably and...