Recently added articles from Public Personnel Management:
Evaluating HR management strategies for recruiting and retaining IT professionals in the U.S. federal government.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Public personnel management scholarship and practice increasingly focus on creative human resources management (HRM) strategies for attracting and retaining employees with special skills and institutional knowledge, particularly in light of impending retirements. (1) To help federal ...
The importance of employee health benefits to public and private sector organizations.
Jun 22, 2009; ... Employer-sponsored health benefits are a vital part of human resources management (HRM) because they compose a large and growing portion of an employee's total compensation package. (1) The costs of health plans have been increasingly focused upon in the media in the United States because ...
Correctional officer turnover: of Maslow's needs hierarchy and Herzberg's motivation theory.
Jun 22, 2009; ... Undoubtedly, many organizations know that employee turnover negatively impacts productivity. Mobley (1) described employee turnover as a potentially costly phenomenon facing many organizations. The study of employee turnover can be conceptually understood by assessing work attitudes such ...
Challenges facing senior public servants in a plural society.(Report)(Statistical data)
Mar 22, 2009; ... It is generally the case in plural societies that the civil service and government are dominated by one powerful group. This was so under colonial rule, and in countries such as Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana these conditions exist even today. Under such arrangements, it was to be expected ...
Employees' perception of organizational change: the mediating effects of stress management strategies.(Statistical data)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Organizational change is the process whereby an organization converts from an existing state to a hoped-for future state in order to increase its effectiveness. For employees, organizational change may produce negative effects, such as ambiguous role responsibilities, unemployment, a ...
Perceived fairness of a background information form and a job knowledge test.(Statistical data)
Mar 22, 2009; ... A wealth of empirical literature provides compelling support for collecting background information from candidates when making personnel selection decisions. For example, many studies indicate that biodata can be used to predict successful job performance, turnover, and success in ...
Assessing electronic recruitment implementation in state governments: issues and challenges.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Since the 1990s, one of the leading challenges in public personnel management has been implementing effective human capital strategies to enhance government performance and accountability. (1) The emphasis on organizational performance and individual productivity has made effective ...
Psychological testing in personnel selection, part III: the resurgence of personality testing.
Mar 22, 2009; ... In the first article in this series, which was published in the Spring 2008 issue of Public Personnel Management, we noted that while the utility of some selection instruments, particularly cognitive ability testing, has been widely accepted, the usefulness of personality testing in ...
Minority representation in senior positions in U.S. Federal Agencies: a paradox of underrepresentation.(Report)(Statistical data)
Mar 22, 2009; ... US federal government agency workforces are typically believed to epitomize equal opportunity and embrace merit principles. The federal government has historically spearheaded policies and programs to mandate affirmative action, eradicate glass ceilings, and institute initiatives to ...
New tricks for an old dog: visualizing job analysis results.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... For the past 30 years researchers and practitioners have relied on the same job analysis methods for their work. Most often, the projects begin with interviews of subject matter expert (SME) groups and conclude with task- or competency-based surveys. Regularly, the resulting product is a ...
Identifying the right course for talent management.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Talent management has always seemed to me to be a tricky subject. It is at risk of becoming mere hyperbole, as in the War for Talent, (1) or of becoming the fad of the conference circuit because the term lacks a clear definition. Proposed definitions are, at worst, a melange of different ...
Talent management: issues of focus and fit.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Talent management has been high on the agenda of HR professionals in the United Kingdom for the past few years. This high level of interest is reflected in a number of recent case study-based research reports that describe a broad range of organizational practices and highlight some of the ...
Talent management in the era of the aging workforce: the critical role of knowledge transfer.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Imagine you are an HR executive and there are two possible scenarios you might experience. In the first scenario, you are fully aware of and concerned about the aging of your organization's workforce. You are especially concerned about the retirements of knowledgeable and experienced baby ...
The U.S. federal Senior Executive Service (SES) and gender diversity: would proposed legislation enhancing the representational diversity of selection panels necessarily increase the number of female appointments to the SES?
Dec 22, 2008; ... The Senior Executive Service (SES) corps consists of high-level managers throughout the U.S. federal government who hold positions just below the level of presidential appointee. Career members of the SES provide a link between politically appointed leaders and the rest of the federal ...
The next generation of leadership assessments: some case studies.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Great leaders. We know them when we see them, but how can we identify those high-potential employees who will one day run their organizations? Workforce planners have been warning for years of the impending wave of baby boomer retirements. Many organizations are finally heeding those ...
Managing talent in the South African Public Service.
Dec 22, 2008; ... South Africa is in the midst of a skills crisis, with the former deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka acknowledging that "nothing short of a skills revolution by a nation united will extricate us from the crisis we face." (1) The skills crisis is particularly disconcerting given the ...
A systematic approach for assessing the currency ("up-to-dateness") of job-analytic information.
Sep 22, 2008; ... It is almost a given that some jobs have the potential to change rapidly over time. Some of these changes are the result of new or developing technology. That is, technology appears to be changing at ever-increasing rates as new materials are being used in production settings, information ...
The impact of work redesign and psychological empowerment on organizational commitment in a changing environment: an example from Taiwan's state-owned enterprises.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Personnel management in both public and private organizations emphasizes human commitment to organizations. Highly committed employees identify with the organization's goals and values, expend extra effort at work, and are proud of their membership in the organization. (1) In an ...
Developing effective internships within public sector organizations.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Almost everyone agrees that, in theory at least, there should exist a symbiotic relationship between organizations and the interns they occasionally hire. With a perfect internship program, the organization receives an enthusiastic, reasonably experienced human resource, generally without ...
How does the SCHIP exclusion affect health insurance coverage for children of low income state workers?(State Children's Health Insurance Program)
Sep 22, 2008; ... The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was created in 1997 to expand health insurance to uninsured low income children. Almost four million children were covered through this program during the last month of 2003, and almost six million were at some point during the 2003 ...