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Public Personnel Management articles from September 1994
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 September 1994
Current staff development and expectations as criteria in selection decisions.
September 22, 1994... This article is concerned with the appointing authority's selection decision in a jurisdiction operating under the merit system. The appointing authority must select from the set of individuals certified by a process administered by the human...
Effects of the applicant's gender-appropriateness and qualifications and rater self-monitoring propensities on hiring decisions.
September 22, 1994... There are many problems connected with the reliability and validity of many existing personnel selection procedures centered around unfair discrimination against qualified job candidates (Arvey, 1979; Carlson, 1967; Cash, Gillen, & Burns, 1977;...
Selection methods: comparison of assessment centers with personnel records evaluations.
September 22, 1994... A constant problem facing all human resource managers is finding the best way t select management talent. How should we select managers to ensure the best choices are made? Choosing the right selection method is the key to making the right...
Retirement income for surviving spouses.
September 22, 1994... By law, pension plans that provide retirement benefits in the form of annuities (usually monthly payments) must offer survivor benefits. Alternatively, some argue that life insurance can be a better way to support the surviving spouse o a public...
Training priorities for a diverse work force.
September 22, 1994... It has been predicted that during the decade of the 1990s at least 85% of new entrants to the labor pool, from which U.S. organizations select their employees, will be women, minorities, and foreign immigrants. If this predictio is accurate, by...
Administrative innovation and the training of public managers.
September 22, 1994... Sixteen states have established or incipient public manager training programs which, upon their successful completion, lead to the formal designation of participants as "certified" public managers. The most common designation is CPM (Certified...
City of Dallas Dallas, Texas Agency Award for Excellence - Large Agency. (IPMA Agency Award for Excellence)
September 22, 1994... Editor's Note: In an effort to provide more articles of a practical nature to our readers, Public Personnel Management recently interviewed this recipient of the 1993 IPMA Agency Award for Excellence. The complete answers to our question...
The relationship between organizational climate and employee perceptions of personnel management practices.
September 22, 1994... The management process in an organization can be described as the application o certain principles and techniques to achieve organizational objectives. The tas of management can therefore be conceptualised as the achievement of specified...
Pay compression at public universities: the business school experience.
September 22, 1994... Pay compression, the narrowing over time of the pay differentials between peopl in the same job or between people in different (usually adjacent) jobs in an organizational hierarchy, has become a significant issue in public higher education over...
Marketing academic internships in the public sector.
September 22, 1994... Municipalities must get the job done. Yet it is widely known that monetary resources are tight in many municipalities. Public sector employees, managers, and elected officials however, voice concerns about providing government services...
Conflict management strategies for the equal opportunity difficult person in the sexually harassing workplace.
September 22, 1994... On a warm Saturday evening in September 1991, hundreds of military aviators, fresh from their victory in the Persian Gulf War, were celebrating at the Las Vegas Hilton. It was the 35th annual convention of the Tailhook Association, a private...
The constitution and the patronage-merit debate: implications for personnel managers.
September 22, 1994... A long standing issue in the field of public personnel administration involves the use of political or social criteria in selection that are unrelated to job requirements. While the establishment of merit systems is often thought to be a adequate...