Tennessee's Department of Public Health supervisors found their training insufficient; a study, employing a package approach including subordinates' ratings, located strengths and weaknesses in supervisory skills, providing a base for developing specialized training courses. Conclusions supported supervisors' perception: they require training in…

Considers employment discrimination suits against federal officers where application of the sovereign immunity doctrine has generated considerable confusion and attendant injustice, and develops the separation of powers rationale for sovereign immunity, showing how the immunity principles adopted by the Supreme Court implicitly define the…

Determining whether an employee's First Amendment free speech interests should prevail over legitimate employer concerns for an efficient workplace is a difficult question that this book attempts to answer. To give public employers and public employees an understanding of the legal framework in which free speech issues are decided is the purpose…

This booklet provides profiles of career opportunities in the National Park Service. Careers profiled include park ranger, park police, guard, administrator, design and construction, and maintenance, trade and craft positions, and other opportunities. Each career description includes information on some or all of the following: duties; location;…

An investigation was made of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986, which requires employers to verify employment eligibility of workers and imposes civil and criminal penalties against employers who knowingly hire unauthorized workers. The study reviewed federal agency implementation of IRCA, reviewed discrimination complaints…

Information on pay equity studies and related activities in the states was collected through mail questionnaires. Focuses were the types of job evaluation systems used for classified state employees, pay equity policies in the states, pay equity studies, and pay equity litigation. Responses to the questionnaire showed that 46 of the 48 states…

A study was made to obtain a broad overview of the operation of maternity leave in Australia from the perspectives of employees and employers. The study included: (1) an employee survey exploring the use and non-use of maternity leave and identifying determinants of taking maternity leave and of retaining women in the labor force after childbirth;…

In response to concerns about the affirmative action efforts of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA), the General Accounting Office examined ADAMHA's personnel management and equal employment opportunity issues. Issues examined included the representation of minorities in the ADAMHA work force, especially at…

The General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed the need for child care facilities for civilian employees at seven Department of Defense installations. The GAO was charged with: (1) determining the current availability of work-site child care services for civilian employees at the installations; and (2) surveying employees at McClellan Air Force Base…

A 1981 survey showed that while racial minorities made up 15 to 20 percent of the population of Toronto, Canada, the Toronto Board of Education had only 7.9 percent minority employees. In 1987 another survey was completed to determine if the representation of visible racial minorities had changed. This document is the first part of a two part…

A backlog of applicants for civil service positions and a work overload on selection and classification specialists at one civil service office prompted a study of the usefulness of a job-person match for personnel selection. An instrument measuring applicants' match to a large number of professional and technical jobs within a state civil service…

This report demonstrates the feasibility of covering a large number of classes in a single study that has both classification and selection applications. A job analysis of clerical and administrative positions in the Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands was accomplished by means of a single questionnaire comprised of 264 items of the following…

A supplement to an earlier-published volume on bargaining tactics, this document presents specific tactics that can be used in the course of public sector collective bargaining to further management's pre-established negotiating strategies. All the tactics suggested are drawn from the author's personal experience as a public sector labor…

On-the-job experience is used to build management skills in the Federal Government. (Author)