Public Personnel Management articles from September 2003

Public Personnel Management archives from September 2003

IPMA-HR Journal wins prestigious Emerald Page Award.(International Public Management Association for Human Resources)(Brief article)
September 22, 2003... Public Personnel Management, the academic journal of IPMA-HR, was recently recognized by Emerald Management Reviews as one of the outstanding management publications of 2002. The journal received a 2003 Golden Page Award for "Practical...

Diversity in religious practice: implications of Islamic values in the public workplace.
September 22, 2003... The September 11th terrorist attack in the United States was indeed a definable moment for Americans. This has caused a growing level of concern among many non-Muslims Americans about the practice of Islam. Since embracing Islam is tantamount...

The FLSA and overtime pay.(Fair Labor Standards Act)(Labor Department rules)
September 22, 2003... Early federal legislation covering employees' work hours and wages was limited to employees who worked on government contracts or in specific industries. During the Great Depression, unemployment was in the double digits and people were...

Executive selection in a government agency: an analysis of the Department of the Navy's Senior Executive Service selection process.
September 22, 2003... The level of change has intensified (1) while the use of technology has exploded (2). Consequently, businesses continue to downsize, reorganize and restructure, placing more pressure on leaders and their subordinates to perform. While the...

Applying the theory of constraints to a public safety hiring process.(Texas Police Department)
September 22, 2003... This article outlines the application of the theory of constraints (TOC) to the hiring process of the Odessa, Texas Police Department (OPD). Initially, the TOC is discussed. Then, background information on the OPD and its hiring process is...

A legal analysis of breast-feeding accommodation requirements in the workplace.
September 22, 2003... "... [F]ew would deny that the problems facing women who wish to bear children while pursuing challenging careers at the same time remain substantial" (1) The purpose of this paper is to review state and federal court cases to determine...

Exit surveys as assessments of organizational ethicality.
September 22, 2003... The importance of clearly articulated and understood ethical standards in the business of public administration is undisputable. (1) Moreover, an understanding of how ethics operates in the day-to-day functioning of the public sector is crucial...

Examining the implementation of affirmative action in law enforcement.
September 22, 2003... Affirmative action has been a controversial policy during the last few decades. Affirmative action (AA) is a means by which government activity openly promotes the hiring and promotion of members of groups that have historically suffered...

Personalities at work: understanding and managing human nature on the job.
September 22, 2003... All people possess personality traits. These are the individual variations of temperament, cognition and interaction style that give each of us our distinct color as human beings. But when these personal characteristics grate harmfully on...

Municipal government part-time employee benefits practices.
September 22, 2003... Part-time employment is a basic human resource staffing in the United States and elsewhere. (1) In the United States, there were approximately 21.4 million permanent part-time employees comprising 15.8 percent of the 135.2 million member...