Public Personnel Management articles from March 1998

Public Personnel Management archives from March 1998

Obstacles to sustaining a labor-management partnership: a management perspective.(Special Issue - Labor-Management Cooperation)
March 22, 1998... Labor-management cooperation is a revolution in the way we do business. Thanks to the City of Fort Lauderdale's vision and support, I have been fortunate to work with one of the most successful public sector labor-management partnerships in the...

A labor-management approach to health care cost savings: the Peoria experience.(Special Issue - Labor-Management Cooperation)
March 22, 1998... In 1993, the increasingly troublesome problem of skyrocketing health care costs became intolerable to city council members, city administration, retirees and active employees in the City of Peoria, Illinois. Because health care costs were rising...

Consensus bargaining in Wisconsin state government: a new approach to labor negotiation.(Special Issue - Labor-Management Cooperation)
March 22, 1998... Labor Management Background in Wisconsin State Government is the largest and most diversified employer in Wisconsin - employing over 40,000 classified employees in more than 50 departments and agencies and the 26 University of Wisconsin...

Interest-based bargaining: labor and management working together in Ramsey County, Minnesota.(Special Issue - Labor-Management Cooperation)
March 22, 1998... Imagine 48 union and management representatives looking on as two facilitators with flip charts record the views and concerns of those 48 individuals. They have a problem, but they have not taken a position, and they are working toward a...

Aggression, peaceful co-existence, mutual cooperation - it's up to us.(Special Issue - Labor-Management Cooperation)
March 22, 1998... Background From the ashes of an aggressive labor relations posture, Phoenix has moved to a mutual cooperation labor-management relations model. Current labor relations literature discusses adversarial vs. interest-based, win-win relationships....

The Connecticut vocational-technical schools labor management cooperative effort revisited.(Special Issue - Labor-Management Cooperation)
March 22, 1998... A 1996 article(1) published in this journal examined Connecticut's experience in forming a labor-management partnership to create a safer environment in public vocational-technical schools. This collaborative venture was undertaken by the...

Labor-management cooperation - City of Portland, Maine.(Special Issue - Labor-Management Cooperation)
March 22, 1998... The City of Portland, Maine has undertaken a number of cooperative efforts with labor during this decade. These efforts are aimed at improving service delivery to the citizens of Portland, Maine. This focus on labor-management cooperation is made...

Employee involvement in Seattle: reengineering government in a city lacking a financial crisis.(Special Issue - Labor-Management Cooperation)
March 22, 1998... The question of "what services ought government provide?" has been the source of much debate this decade. Municipalities across the United States have grappled with decisions over contracting out what has traditionally been government work to the...

Competencies and managerial effectiveness: putting competencies to work.(Special Issue - Labor-Management Cooperation)
March 22, 1998... We all have competencies. These are the sum of our experiences and the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes we have acquired during our lifetime. In the workplace we use our competencies to perform a variety of behaviors and activities,...

Gainsharing in Zebulon: what do workers want? (North Carolina)(Special Issue - Labor-Management Cooperation)
March 22, 1998... What is Gainsharing The private sector uses gainsharing to reward employees for increases in production and/or profit. Gainsharing focuses primarily on financial or budget figures. The term goalsharing is used when the focus on goal attainment...