Observed Divergence in the Attitudes of Incumbents and
Supervisors as Subject Matter Experts in Job Analysis: A Study of the
Fir
This study compares the attitudes of incumbent Fire Captains and
their supervisors regarding critical aspects of a Fire Captain's
job. Fire Captains and supervisors (Fire Chief, Deputy Fire Chiefs, . . .
The HRM Effectiveness Audit: A Tool for Managing Accountability
in HRM.(Human resource management)
Both public sector and not-for-profit organizations continue to
wrestle with the challenges of defining and managing organizational
effectiveness. Human resource management teams are drawn . . .
Experience -- It "Ain't What It Used To Be" :
It's Time to Kill the Sacred Cow of Job Experience in
Recruiting.(changing technol
Warning: This article will make you think...read on with caution!
Recruiters often complain there is a shortage of qualified candidates
but a good portion of the "shortage" comes from an . . .
Nebraska "Whole Picture" Recruitment: From Paperwork to
"People Work" Featuring the Personic Applicant Tracking
System.(governme
Approximately four years ago Nebraska began to take a serious look
at e-recruiting and how we might best serve the citizens of Nebraska. We
faced not only the problem of an extreme labor shortage, . . .
Applying For Jobs Online: Examining the Legality of
Internet-Based Application Forms.(research)(Statistical Data
Included)
The content of 41 Internet-based state applications were examined
for their compliance with EEO guidelines. The results indicated that
97.5% of the application forms possessed at least one . . .
The Quest for the Qualified Job Surfer: It's Time the Public
Sector Catches the Wave.(employee recruitment using the
Internet)
Organizational use of Internet recruiting has dramatically
increased in the last five years. However, there has been little
research to guide the development of organizational employment Web
pages. . . .
Developing Staffing Strategies That Work: Implementing Pragmatic,
Nontraditional Approaches.(human resources planning)
Most organizations understand the benefits that a longer-term
approach to staff planning can bring. Many actually attempt to develop
staffing strategies (or strategic workforce plans, as they are . . .
Finding the Needle in the Haystack: The Challenge of Recruiting
and Retaining Sharp Employees.(with changing demographics)(Stati
Today's employers, both public and private, are facing a
crisis never before experienced in most managers' and
supervisors' careers. This crisis is having a direct impact on the
ability of . . .
Responding to the Challenge of a Changing Workforce: Recruiting
Nontraditional Demographic Groups.(research)
As a result of a shortage of qualified applicants and the changing
nature of the demographic composition of the workforce, there has been a
recent increase in interest among human resource . . .
Beware and Prepare: The Government Workforce of the
Future.(demographics and analysis)(Statistical Data Included)
A crisis is looming in governments across the nation, and yet few
are taking heed. The crisis is one that, in hindsight, would have been
easy to predict and relatively simple to address. However, . . .
Editor's Introduction.(Public Personnel Management,
overview)(Brief Article)
There is probably no greater challenge in public sector human
resources today than recruiting and hiring talented people. Across the
nation, governments at all levels face the daunting challenge . . .
Building on Success: Transforming Organizations Through an
Appreciative Inquiry.
Appreciative Inquiry, developed by David Cooperrider and colleagues
at Case Western Reserve University and The Taos Institute, is an
organizational transformation tool that focuses on learning . . .
Effective Employee Discipline: A Case of the Internal Revenue
Service.
The role of employee discipline from a management, employee, and
union perspective is examined using the Internal Revenue Service as a
case study example. The concept of discipline is defined and . . .
Managing Our Future: The Generation X Factor.(managing Generation
X employees)
The potential impact of the backgrounds of Generation Xers and
BabyBoomers was reviewed to determine whether key factors and defining
moments in their histories may explain the communication . . .
Objective Pre-Employment Interviewing: Balancing Recruitment,
Selection and Retention Goals.
Not that many years ago, while designing the on-campus recruitment
interview for one of the larger federal agencies, I discovered that
nearly 90 percent of the candidates recruited for positions as . . .
African-Americans' Test-Taking Attitudes and their Effect on
Cognitive Ability Test Performance: Implications for Public Personn
This review examined recent research literature which has reported
that African-Americans' attitudes toward cognitive ability tests
affect their subsequent test performance. In particular, the . . .
The Application of Assessment Center Technology to the Evaluation
of Personnel Records.(police promotions)
Elements of traditional police promotional examinations (e.g.,
written tests and assessment centers) do not take into account
candidates' work histories, and performance appraisals on records
are . . .
Strategic Suggestions for Survival when Providing Public
Administration Training in Under-Developed Settings: The Case of
Swazil
This article offers strategies for improving one's technical
assistance and training effectiveness in underdeveloped managerial
setting. The author's suggestions are based on observations . . .
Costa Rica's Civil Service and its Historical Responsibility
for Organizational Change.
Environmental change requires organizations based on participation,
flexibility, a customer service culture, deregulation, decentralization
and delegation. These require an approach that considers . . .
Public Personnel Management in the Caribbean: A Comparative
Analysis of Trends in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico,
Jam
After first describing the characteristics of five Caribbean island
nations (the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and St.
Vincent and Grenada), this article discusses their . . .
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