Public Personnel Management

616 total articles

A quarterly journal focused on human resource work in the public sector. Contains articles on trends, case studies, comparative information, and recent research. Topics include labor relations, assessment, personnel policies, government reform and other a

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Nursing generations in the contemporary workplace.(Statistical table)(Survey)

Jun 22, 2008; Blythe, Jennifer ... As populations of developed countries age, proportionately fewer people participate in the workforce. Concerns about the labor supply has created an interest in workplace demography. In addition to targeting consumers by generation, business managers are now focusing on employees as ...

Tomorrow's workforce: the needs for immigrant workers and strategies to retain them.

Jun 22, 2008; Nguyen, Bao Q. ... Corporate decision makers throughout the United States are now facing tremendous challenges in the intensified global marketplace. They have realized that in the new business environment, people, not machines, have become the best source of sustainable competitive advantage. As Aburdende & ...

Psychological testing in personnel selection, Part II: the refinement of methods and standards in employee selection.

Jun 22, 2008; Scroggins, Wesley A. ... During the first hundred years of scientific management and personnel selection, psychological testing became a powerful and institutionalized tool that was broadly applied. Universities and trade schools, managers, engineers, psychologists, and government officials recognized the ...

Work-family experiences and the insights of municipal government employees: a case study.(Statistical data)

Jun 22, 2008; Secret, Mary ... Accumulating evidence about the links between paid work and family life has prompted many businesses to initiate strategies to aggressively confront the work-life challenges experienced by their employees. (1) The Alliance of Work-Life Professionals, Bright Horizons Family Solutions, ...

Nonrandom response and rater variance in job analysis surveys: a cause for concern?(Statistical table)(Survey)

Jun 22, 2008; Stetz, Thomas A. ... Job analyses should provide the foundation for all HR management activities. (1) Job descriptions, consisting of samples of incumbent behaviors, provide the data to describe work conditions, work processes, and worker requirements. Employers use these descriptions when making decisions ...

No easy path to HRM performance measurement systems: exploring the introduction of the U.S. Human Capital Assessment and Accountability Framework and the Flemish Management Code.(Statistical data)

Jun 22, 2008; Vandenabeele, Wouter ... In contemporary public administration, one can see clearly an increased focus on measuring performance in government and public organizations. (1) Performance measurement is an important issue in nearly every public management reform, and in the literature, great attention is paid to every ...