Public Personnel Management

“Most popular reading for adults is at the 10th grade level or below. Best selling novels are often at the 5th or 6th grade reading level… . Best selling nonfiction is only slightly more difficult, and Time magazine is at the 10th grade level. But how difficult should a test be?”

“On what basis do employment managers and off-campus interviewers decide which prospective graduates will be tendered an employment offer? And why do students accept or reject a job opportunity if it is offered?”

“This article seeks to examine the practical problems and pressures on the monitoring authority in a post-audit system of classification control, and it proposes a change in law to provide grade retention rather than salary retention, when jobs are found to be overgraded, as a means of defusing these pressures. It also proposes that the CSC be given authority to require suitable management improvements and organizational changes when necessary or desirable.”

This study—on one of the few experiments designed to empirically evaluate the effects of job enrichment—found evidence that job enrichment does increase the level of job satisfaction and can improve job performance.

“…both labor and management representatives have to recognize each other as being legitimate to the goals of their respective organizations; without this mutual endorsement, hostility, confusion and uncertainty may occur and continue.”

“Drug taking on the job has become a problem of major, national importance in industry. This study did a research survey to determine whether drug abuse was regarded as an employment problem at the municipal level.”

“In general, the managers seemed to view training in terms of a long-term rational cost-benefit ratio, that is, they desired training that would maximize their potential for promotion and responsibility in the future rather than in their current jobs.”