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Public Personnel Management articles from March 2001
A quarterly journal focused on human resource work in the public sector. Contains articles on trends, case studies, comparative information, and recent research. Topics include labor relations, assessment, personnel policies, government reform and other a
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Public Personnel Management archives from March 2001
Strengthening Personnel Management in Developing Countries: Lessons Learned, Lessons Forgotten, and an Agenda for Action.
March 22, 2001... This symposium introduction first sets the stage by briefly discussing why developing countries are different, based on how public personnel management in the United States evolved over the past two centuries, compared to the evolutionary...
Advances and Challenges in Human Resource Management in the New Millennium.
March 22, 2001... The world of human resource management is changing more rapidly than we can imagine. Constant environmental changes mean that human resource managers face constant challenges. They must respond by taking advantage of gradual yet profound...
Public Personnel Management in the Caribbean: A Comparative Analysis of Trends in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and St. Vincent and Grenada.
March 22, 2001... After first describing the characteristics of five Caribbean island nations (the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and St. Vincent and Grenada), this article discusses their respective public personnel management systems. Each...
Costa Rica's Civil Service and its Historical Responsibility for Organizational Change.
March 22, 2001... Environmental change requires organizations based on participation, flexibility, a customer service culture, deregulation, decentralization and delegation. These require an approach that considers HRM as a strategic entity that serves as a...
Strategic Suggestions for Survival when Providing Public Administration Training in Under-Developed Settings: The Case of Swaziland[1].
March 22, 2001... This article offers strategies for improving one's technical assistance and training effectiveness in underdeveloped managerial setting. The author's suggestions are based on observations gained while providing technical assistance and training...
The Application of Assessment Center Technology to the Evaluation of Personnel Records.(police promotions)
March 22, 2001... Elements of traditional police promotional examinations (e.g., written tests and assessment centers) do not take into account candidates' work histories, and performance appraisals on records are fraught with problems. This article describes a...
African-Americans' Test-Taking Attitudes and their Effect on Cognitive Ability Test Performance: Implications for Public Personnel Management Selection Practice.
March 22, 2001... This review examined recent research literature which has reported that African-Americans' attitudes toward cognitive ability tests affect their subsequent test performance. In particular, the negative attitudes of African-Americans toward...
Objective Pre-Employment Interviewing: Balancing Recruitment, Selection and Retention Goals.
March 22, 2001... Not that many years ago, while designing the on-campus recruitment interview for one of the larger federal agencies, I discovered that nearly 90 percent of the candidates recruited for positions as chemists, physicists and electrical engineers...
Managing Our Future: The Generation X Factor.(managing Generation X employees)
March 22, 2001... The potential impact of the backgrounds of Generation Xers and BabyBoomers was reviewed to determine whether key factors and defining moments in their histories may explain the communication disconnect in our nation's workplace. Of special...
Effective Employee Discipline: A Case of the Internal Revenue Service.
March 22, 2001... The role of employee discipline from a management, employee, and union perspective is examined using the Internal Revenue Service as a case study example. The concept of discipline is defined and contrasted with punishment. Also, two discipline...
Building on Success: Transforming Organizations Through an Appreciative Inquiry.
March 22, 2001... Appreciative Inquiry, developed by David Cooperrider and colleagues at Case Western Reserve University and The Taos Institute, is an organizational transformation tool that focuses on learning from success. Instead of focusing on deficits and...