Public Personnel Management back issues from June 2009:
Rational techniques as myth-based rituals: the role of reflective practitioners in remunerative justice.
Jun 22, 2009; ... Political, social, economic, and organizational forces often compel public administrators to address the problem of justly remunerating employees. This problem is fundamentally "wicked," but for a host of reasons, administrators seek to "tame" the problem by performing rituals and invoking ...
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 relation between managers' emotional intelligence and the organizational climate they create.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to understanding and recognition of oneself and others-abilities, perception and attitudes. This mental ability has an important influence on the other abilities of a manager, especially leadership. In this article, I consider the important issue of ...
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 ...