Public Personnel Management articles from September 1997

Public Personnel Management archives from September 1997

Putting the super in supervisor: determinants of federal employee evaluation of supervisors.
September 22, 1997... With a capable and willing work force, most organizations actually succeed or fail due to the quality of the direction provided by their leaders and managers. The first-line supervisor is, for most employees, the physical embodiment of the...

Determinants of job satisfaction of federal government employees.
September 22, 1997... In a report to Congress, the National Commission on the Public Service concluded that the continuous decline in job attitudes of federal government employees has created a "quiet" crisis and undermined the ability of government to respond to...

The Equal Pay Act: the first 30 years.
September 22, 1997... Two major acts have been passed to eliminate gender discrimination within the workplace - The Equal Pay Act (EPA) of 1963 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Equal Pay Act was the first law to suggest that the pay of women should be equal to...

Measuring and correcting inversion in faculty salaries at public universities.
September 22, 1997... Compensation systems, a major aspect of human resource management, have experienced controversy over the past few years. Related areas include its potentially discriminatory impact on females and/or minorities and exceptionally wide disparities...

The boomer blues: depression in the workplace.
September 22, 1997... There are many times people in the workplace feel like Alice; they are confused, upset, and depressed. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, clinical depression strikes more than 17.5 million adults each year, and it costs...

What motivates municipal employees: a comparison study of supervisory vs. non-supervisory personnel.
September 22, 1997... Examining the differences in motivating factors between supervisory vs. non-supervisory personnel in the public sector has received little attention to date. Most of the knowledge in the area of public employee motivation has been built upon...

Teaching evaluation at a public institution of higher education: factors related to the overall teaching effectiveness.
September 22, 1997... For the past several decades, teaching evaluation has been examined by many researchers in the literature. Evaluation of teaching effectiveness will continue to be an interesting topic for faculty members, students, and researchers in the years...

Longer days, shorter weeks: compressed work weeks in policing.
September 22, 1997... The public sector implementation of innovative work schedules in the 1970s-1980s was prompted by a decade of falling revenues and declining federal aid.(1) Among these experiments were flexitime, job-sharing, and compressed work schedules. The...

Consolidating personnel administration services: suggestions from the Department of Defense Education Activity's experience.
September 22, 1997... Recently, public personnel administration has been subject to greater pressure for change than at any time since its last major overhaul, the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. Reports issued by the National Academy of Public Administration, Merit...

When does it hurt to tell the truth? The effect of realistic job reviews on employee recruiting.
September 22, 1997... Indications are that substantially fewer young people are now entering the labor force in the United States. In dramatic contrast to the late 1970s when three million new 18 year-olds entered the work force each year, the labor force is now...

Job analysis: a local government's experience.
September 22, 1997... Job analysis has been described by some as the basic activity of human resource management.(1) Others, like Riggio,(2) suggest that job analysis is the starting point for nearly all personnel functions. In local government, informal job analysis...