Public Personnel Management back issues from December 2000:
Editor's Introduction.(Public Personnel Management, overview)(Brief Article)
Dec 22, 2000; ... 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 of recruiting in the most competitive labor market in recent memory. In addition, after decades ...
Beware and Prepare: The Government Workforce of the Future.(demographics and analysis)(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 22, 2000; ... 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, few jurisdictions are taking the time, energy, or political risk to prepare for the storm that ...
Responding to the Challenge of a Changing Workforce: Recruiting Nontraditional Demographic Groups.(research)
Dec 22, 2000; ... 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 professionals in the targeting of recruitment efforts toward specific subgroups of the population ....
Finding the Needle in the Haystack: The Challenge of Recruiting and Retaining Sharp Employees.(with changing demographics)(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 22, 2000; ... 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 organizations to meet the ever-growing demand for their products and services. What makes this crisis ...
Developing Staffing Strategies That Work: Implementing Pragmatic, Nontraditional Approaches.(human resources planning)
Dec 22, 2000; ... 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 also known). Unfortunately, these organizations often find that the "traditional" approaches ...
The Quest for the Qualified Job Surfer: It's Time the Public Sector Catches the Wave.(employee recruitment using the Internet)
Dec 22, 2000; ... 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. This paper first outlines the reasons why public sector organizations should consider ...
Applying For Jobs Online: Examining the Legality of Internet-Based Application Forms.(research)(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 22, 2000; ... 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 inadvisable question, with an average of 4.2 per form. The most frequent inadvisable questions ...
Nebraska "Whole Picture" Recruitment: From Paperwork to "People Work" Featuring the Personic Applicant Tracking System.(government personnel management automation)
Dec 22, 2000; ... 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, but that our labor intensive method of matching "people to jobs" and "jobs to people" might ...
Experience -- It "Ain't What It Used To Be" : It's Time to Kill the Sacred Cow of Job Experience in Recruiting.(changing technology, deomographics)
Dec 22, 2000; ... 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 over reliance on the number of years of experience a candidate has. OK, calm down and I'll explain why ...
The HRM Effectiveness Audit: A Tool for Managing Accountability in HRM.(Human resource management)
Dec 22, 2000; ... 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 increasingly into new strategic and operational initiatives proceeding under a variety of labels, ...
Observed Divergence in the Attitudes of Incumbents and Supervisors as Subject Matter Experts in Job Analysis: A Study of the Fire Captain Rank.(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 22, 2000; ... 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, and Division Chiefs) were held as separate subject matter expert groups in an analysis of ...
Evidence of Strategic HRM Linkages in Eleven Australian Corporatized Public Sector Organizations[1].(human resource management, research)(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 22, 2000; ... 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) strategic integration framework. The sample is drawn from monopolized statutory public sector ...