Creating a Leadership Development Program: Nine Essential
Tasks.
Empirical research supports common sense--leadership matters to an
organization's effectiveness. Leadership skills can be learned;
although learning on the job is too haphazard a way to ensure . . .
The Five Biggest HRM Lies.(Human resource management)
Many myths have been perpetuated in the field of personnel
administration during the 20th century. These misconceptions were really
never true in the 1900s, and they are especially misleading . . .
The Selection of Entry-Level Corrections Officers: Pennsylvania
Research.
The article traces the 20-year evolution of procedures used to
assess candidates for employment as entry-level corrections officers in
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The results of three test . . .
Antecedents of Organizational Citizenship Behavior: A Study of
Public Personnel in Kuwait.
In this study I examine the effects of procedural and distributive
justice, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment upon
Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) with samples drawn from . . .
Public Sector Change in Australia: Are Managers' Ideals
Being Realized?
Public sector organizations traditionally have been associated with
the internal process (bureaucratic) model of organizational culture.
Public choice and management theory have suggested that . . .
Recent Human Resources Developments in OECD Member
Countries.(Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development)
During the past two decades, OECD governments have initiated bold
public management reforms. Human Resources Management (HRM) has been the
key area of these reforms. One of the fundamental reasons . . .
An Examination of Employee Benefits Cost Control Strategies in
New Jersey Local Governments.
Employee benefits are an essential and costly component of the
compensation and human resources management system. This research effort
surveyed 118 New Jersey local governments on benefits cost . . .
Totally Integrated Employee Benefits.
Have you ever heard the old cliche, "Your employees are the
backbone of your company?" Well, figuratively speaking, it's
true! To be successful, employers must assure their employees a good
quality . . .
Workplace Bullying: Curing the Cancer of the American
Workplace.
The purpose of this work is to investigate the phenomenon of
workplace bullying. Particularly, it will investigate the hypothesis
that supervisor/employee workplace bullying is an issue that has . . .
Successfully Using Teams to Assist in Structural Realignments or
Downsizing Initiatives.
The value of teams to the change process has been increasingly
emphasized in the organizational literature over the last decade. Yet
there has been little discussion of the inherent obstacles to . . .
From Welfare to Work: The Endorsement of the Money Ethic and the
Work Ethic among Welfare Recipients, Welfare Recipients in Trai
This is a cross-sectional study of demographic and work-related
variables (the Money Ethic Factors -- Good and Evil,
Achievement/Respect/Power, and Budget; and the Protestant Work . . .
Perceived Impacts of Family Leave Policy: Do Organizational
Factors Matter?(Statistical Data Included)
A pressing public management concern, as we move into the 21st
century, is the ability of employees to balance their commitments to
both work and family. Despite some recent studies that point . . .
What Race Am I? The Need for Standardization in Race Question
Wording.(job applications)
The goal of the current research was to compare differences in the
wording and options of race and ethnic identification items currently in
use on employment application forms. Researchers . . .
Mexican-American Professionals in Municipal Administration : Do
They Really Lag Behind in Terms of Education, Seniority, and On-
Hispanics are the fastest-growing ethnic population in the United
States. By the year 2025, they will be the single largest minority group
in the country.[1] Sometimes referred to as the . . .
Negligent Hiring: The Emerging Contributor to Workplace Violence
in the Public Sector.
In this era when workplaces have become "battle zones,"
negligent hiring is emerging as a contributing source of employer
liability for violence. Public employers have been found liable for
violent . . .
Criminal Background Checks for Prospective and Current Employees:
Current Practices among Municipal Agencies.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss background checks and to
describe local government agencies' use of criminal background
checks. Although interest in protecting one's organization or
public . . .
Does Performance Appraisal Contribute to Heightened Levels of
Employee Burnout? The Results of One Study.(Statistical Data
Inclu
This study examines the relationship between employee perceptions
of performance appraisal and both employee burnout and experienced job
satisfaction in a county government. More specifically, the . . .
A New Approach to Dispute Resolution in the South African Public
Service.
The South African Public Service is a unique personnel corps
comprising approximately 70 percent of total public sector employment.
Its responsibility to ensure that the South African public is . . .
Human Resources Management Perspective at the Turn of the
Century.
The future of human resources management and the role of HR
managers are presented in this paper. The paper presents the results of
nine large reports that have been undertaken around the world. . . .
Evidence of Strategic HRM Linkages in Eleven Australian
Corporatized Public Sector Organizations[1].(human resource management,
This study explores the adoption of strategic human resource
management (HRM) by examining the extent of linkages between HRM and
business planning using the Golden and Ramnujam's (1985) . . .
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