Presents a directory of 52 federal government offices and programs which employ historians in the Washington, D.C. area. For each entry, the following information is given: agency name, name of the official in charge, address, and telephone number. (Author/DB)

Provides a brief history of public employee organizations and examines major methods used by such groups to establish their legitimacy. Focuses on the way this legitimacy impacts organizational authority structures. (Author)

Provides a variety of approaches to administering individual salaries on the basis of evaluated performance. Describes methods of precalculating and controlling salary expenditures while simultaneously administering salaries on a "relative" rather than "absolute" performance rating system. (Author)

The growing trend of judicial support allowing employers and third parties to seek damages in public employee strikes is reviewed from the union perspective. Includes a discussion of the historical trend of liability theories. This area of public sector labor relations law is developing with no clear national trend. (MD)

This article reviews court decisions concerning drug testing among prisoners, military personnel, public employees, and school employees. Fourth Amendment considerations of unreasonable search and seizure are discussed. In developing drug testing policies school districts must review these decisions in order to both protect individual rights and…

Critiquing the bureaucratization of Federal Civil Service, the author suggests production by workers would be promoted by the introduction of the profit motive and the use of performance management. Civil service pay, benefits, security, and prestige should be the rewards of efficient production. (MD)

The purpose of this paper is to review the concepts of fiscal stress and decrementalism--a method of retrenchment management; to examine the consequences on public agencies and services; and to outline the challenges of human resource erosion for personnel managers and barriers to successful strategies. (SK)

Any legitimate theory of employment rights must be founded on the premise that employment is a voluntary relationship governed by mutual consent; an employment right does not exist apart from contract. Analyzes the legal aspects of public sector employment. (Author/MLF)

Ten-week tutorials focused on improving the reading competency of employees of a city housing authority. Materials and techniques for adult learners were used. Vocabulary and comprehension scores and high levels of attendance (17 of 19 students attended 80 percent of the time) indicated the success of the program. (SK)

Argues that an April 20, 1983, United States Supreme Court decision upholding the discharge of a former New Orleans assistant district attorney may have negative consequences for the free speech rights of public employees, including teachers. (JBM)

Reviews state supreme court rulings on constitutionality issues raised by compulsory arbitration for public employees. Cases are reviewed for the states of Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Nebraska, Maine, Michigan, New York, South Dakota, Oklahoma, and Washington. Concludes that courts have generally upheld the constitutionality of such…

Based on executive order 11491 dealing with continued recognition of the collective rights of Federal employees, a systems model for labor management negotiations is developed. The evolution of the collective bargaining system is diagramed schematically and is being tested with the Air Force system of industrial relations. (DS)

The author describes the initial organization of a disease prevention/health promotion program for federal agencies involving 2,600 employees. It involved four categories of interventions: education of the medical staff, education of supervisors, client-centered case consultations, and consultee-centered case consultations. (AG)

The Intergovernmental Personnel Act opens avenues of cooperation between various levels of government and the schools and the colleges. (Editor)

Authors discuss their experiences with each of four different types of strikes -- recognitional, jurisdictional, strikes during the term of an agreement, and economic strikes. Describes the effect these strikes as well as strike threats have had on the public sector. (JF)