Public Personnel Management articles from September 2002

Public Personnel Management archives from September 2002

End of an era: the 11th Amendment and public personnel administration.
September 22, 2002... The 11th Amendment states: "The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects...

Organizations' relative degree of exposure to selection discrimination litigation.
September 22, 2002... The risk of lawsuits filed by job applicants who feel they have been victims of selection discrimination is a deeply felt concern of most organizations. Thousands of complaints of employment discrimination are filed each year with local, state,...

Incentives to encourage worker-friendly organizations.
September 22, 2002... As the nation progresses into the 21st century, there is a need to move away from short-term strategies for economic growth. Instead, economic policies must focus on long-term strategies for addressing productivity growth. To maintain...

Strategic marketing of training initiatives in underdeveloped countries: the case of Swaziland.
September 22, 2002... International training and use of technical assistance are growing in underdeveloped nations today as never before. In part, this escalation is due to a number of factors, e.g., the demise of the Soviet Union, increased emphasis on democracy...

Pay-for-performance: the keys to making it work.
September 22, 2002... The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) released a white paper in April calling for dramatic changes in the federal white-collar pay program. The paper places a heavy emphasis on pay-for-performance. An extract from the white paper provides...

Employee performance appraisal system participation: a technique that works.
September 22, 2002... A performance appraisal is a controversial management tool searching for answers to ubiquitous problems in system design and administration. (1) The main objective of this paper is to succinctly summarize the key elements that make employee...

Determinants of job satisfaction of municipal government employees.
September 22, 2002... Organizational scholars have long been interested in why some people report being very satisfied with their jobs, while others express much lower levels of satisfaction. (1) The drive to understand and explain job satisfaction has been...

Strategic human resource management: perceptions among North Carolina county social service Professionals.
September 22, 2002... The performance of organizations is the focus of intensive research efforts. How well an organization performs its mission and accomplishes its goals of program service delivery is the measure of all things. Administrative capacity is a major...

Relationships between organizational properties and organizational effectiveness in three types of nonprofit human service organizations.
September 22, 2002... The main goal of these organizations is "to protect [boarding schools], maintain [home care organizations], or enhance [community centers] the personal well-being of people by defining, shaping, or altering their personal attributes" (1)...

The panel interview: a review of empirical research and guidelines for practice.(Discussion)
September 22, 2002... After nearly 50 years of research, examining the overall utility of the panel interview continues to be important, especially given its wide use in the public sector and apparent growing use in the private sector. For practitioners,...