Public Personnel Management articles from September 1993

Public Personnel Management archives from September 1993

The City of Kansas City's firefighters' pension bonus plan.
September 22, 1993... The Plan The normal maximum pension is 60% of the average of the highest two year's service at 30 years of service. The Bonus Plan envisions paying up to 70% of the same salary average for service up to and beyond 35 years, on a one time basis...

Personnel management in North Carolina municipalities: an examination of use, size, and structure.
September 22, 1993... While recruitment and selection techniques received extensive use among the Tarheel municipalities, the other three personnel categories were subject to what can only be deemed as moderate (compensation and benefits and employee rights and...

The essence of leadership.
September 22, 1993... Since the first two people came together for the purpose of completing a task, the subject of leadership has been debated. Typically the debate centers around several areas of inquiry: Are leaders born or can they be developed? What is...

Motivating the private vs. public sector managers.
September 22, 1993... The United States seems to be undergoing a painful self appraisal of what has happened to its productivity, efficiency, dedication and effort to sustain itself as the achieving society. Maehr & Braskamp (1986). The Private sector is facing...

Toward gender equality in the Korean Civil Service.
September 22, 1993... A critical problem for a historically male-dominated society which seeks equal employment is the under-representation of women, particularly at managerial levels. In terms of the political theory of bureaucracy, most theorists (Lewis, 1988;...

The Mexican American employee: a growing labor force.
September 22, 1993... It is impossible to speak of the labor force participation of workers of Mexican ancestry in the United States without defining who they are. In this paper the word Chicano will be used to refer to those peoples of Mexican ancestry who were born...

The arbitration of grievances of police officers and fire fighters.
September 22, 1993... The nature of the work of police officers is distinctive. As such it can lead to distinctive aspects in the unionization, the collective bargaining and the arbitration processes. The nature of this distinctiveness as it relates to collective...

AIDS: administrative decisions and constitutional rights.
September 22, 1993... AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a major health crisis confronting America today. In March 1991, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, reported that more than 171,000 active AIDS cases resulting in more than 106,000...

Male/female differences in perceptions and effects of hostile environment sexual harassment: "reasonable" assumptions?
September 22, 1993... The appropriate legal standard for determining the behaviors that constitute hostile working environment sexual harassment has not yet been clearly delineated. Confusion arises because the behaviors that typically represent examples of hostile...

Predicting and managing turnover in human service agencies: a case study of an organization in crisis.
September 22, 1993... The problem of employee turnover has received much attention from researchers in organizational science (see Herzberg, et. al., 1957; March and Simon, 1958; Porter & Steers, 1973; Mobley, 1982; Cotton & Tuttle, 1986 for comprehensive reviews of...

The assessment center: an examination of the effects of assessor characteristics on assessor scores.
September 22, 1993... Preparation of this article was supported in part by a grant from the First Interstate Bank of Nevada. I wish to thank Professors John Schibrowsky and Thomas Carroll of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, for their assistance in the statistical...