Download or read book Human Resource Strategies in Response to Local Government Cutbacks written by Min-Hyu Kim and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the literature on public sector cutback management is normative and suggests how to implement cutback strategies as part of strategic management. The paucity of empirical research is striking, given the importance of cutback management in assessing future employment needs of public sector agencies. Such research is crucial in providing sufficient levels of services to fulfill the missions the public has come to expect from government. Using a mixed methods approach, this study explored various human resource (HR) strategies used to deal with cutbacks and examined the causes and consequences of using these strategies. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 17 directors in 9 local governments in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, this study identified key factors that may account for the use of various HR strategies, including training and development, HR information technology, diversity management, and the role of unions and political leadership. Furthermore, this study explored the subsequent consequences of using these various strategies, with a focus on budgets, capacity and employee morale. To test these grounded hypotheses systematically, survey questionnaires were administered to health and human service directors of counties with populations over 10,000 residents, with an adjusted response rate of 32.8%. In addition to gathering data on actual HR strategies, the study conducted a survey experiment in which managers were asked how they would respond to budget cutbacks of varying severity. The results showed that multiple factors had varied influences on their decisions about human resource strategies in cutback situations. The regression analyses indicated that local governments that recognized the importance of information management, state political leadership, and the role of unions were more active in their implementation of cutback strategies. The findings of this study indicated as well that restructuring was associated strongly with lower budgets, capacity, and employee morale. The experiment found some empirical evidence that public managers reduce direct personnel costs to maintain the functions of the organization. The study has implications for human resources practices and theories, as well as important implications for the changing policies in developing and achieving the strategic goals of their organizations.
Download or read book Applying the Best to Government written by President's Council on Management Improvement (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing Human Resources in Local Government written by Urban Institute and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pamphlet on personnel management problems in local government, in the USA, with particular reference to Motivation of public servants and civil servants - covers wage incentive programmes, job enrichment schemes, fringe benefits, flexible hours of work, etc. References.
Download or read book Strategic Human Resource Management in Local Government written by Lisa Jo-Anne Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Michigan Communities Services Cut in Response to Fiscal Distress written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing Human Resources written by Charles H. Levine and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1977-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Local Government Response to Human Resource Development written by Florida League of Cities and published by . This book was released on 1976* with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Right to an Age Friendly City written by Meghan Joy and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A context of aging populations and urbanization has sparked a global movement to make urban spaces age-friendly. The Age-Friendly City program, developed by the World Health Organization, aims to improve local environments for all population groups, promote a positive aging identity, and empower local policy actors to support senior citizens. Despite growing enthusiasm and policy work by local governments worldwide, considerable gaps remain. These lacunae have led scholars and activists alike to align age-friendly city work with the concept of the right to the city. In The Right to an Age-Friendly City Meghan Joy zeroes in on the intricacies of developing an environment that promotes social and spatial justice for the elderly in Toronto. Weaving together the stories, struggles, and victories of local activists, government staff, and frontline service providers, Joy maps this complex policy area and examines the ways in which age-friendly work successfully enhances senior citizens' access to services and support in the local environment, recognizes the diverse needs of senior citizens in the city, and empowers policy actors from local government and the non-profit sector to support senior citizens. A detailed and timely examination, The Right to an Age-Friendly City offers both broad and tangible insights into the intermingled political, economic, cultural, and administrative changes needed to protect the rights of senior citizens to access urban space in Toronto and beyond.
Download or read book Local Government Management written by Douglas J. Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the very best writings on issues involving local government can be found in journals published by the American Society for Public Administration or journals with which ASPA is associated. This volume includes thirty of the most outstanding articles that have been published over the past sixty years in these journals. Local Government Management is an ideal supplement for any course in local management and administration, whether the audience is students or practicing professionals.
Download or read book Public Human Resource Management written by Richard C. Kearney and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Human Resource Management: Problems and Prospects by Richard C. Kearney and Jerrell D. Coggburn brings together exemplary contributors who provide concise essays on major contemporary public human resources management issues. Organized into four parts – setting, techniques, issues and prospects – and covering the major process, function and policy issues in the field, the text offers valuable wisdom to students and practitioners alike. The new edition boasts sixteen new and eleven updated chapters authored by the leading figures in the field as well as by up-and-coming new scholars.
Download or read book Managing Human Resources for Nonprofits written by Kunle Akingbola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The core resources and capabilities of any nonprofit organization lie in their human capital; their knowledge, skills and behaviors are critical to the achievement of the organization's mission and performance. Thus, effective management of this key resource is integral to the nonprofit organization's success. This book focuses on the unique characteristics, challenges and contribution of human resource management to the strategic objectives of the nonprofit. It explores contemporary issues that place the management of people at the intersection between the mission, strategy and performance of the organization. The book: * Uses the latest theory to build models that explain the determinants and dimensions of strategic HRM within the nonprofit sector * Examines the core HRM functions in the context of the nonprofit sector to provide insight into how nonprofits can optimize HRM contributions to performance * Provides a step-by-step process to develop, implement and manage HR practices that are aligned with the strategy of the nonprofit organization * Demonstrates how to integrate volunteer management into strategic HRM Using examples from around the world, as well as cases to facilitate learning, this book is ideal for students and professionals interested in strategic human resource management, and nonprofit management.
Download or read book ARED Newsletter written by United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Economic Research Service. Agriculture and Rural Economy Division and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strategy Process and Human Resource Management in Local Government written by Eugene Crawley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aligning Human Resources and Business Strategy written by Linda Holbeche and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What difference can an aspiring HR strategist really make to business value? Is HR making the most of its new opportunities to become a pivotal part of the business? In a world where HR can suffer from a low, administrative profile, Linda Holbeche shows how some HR strategists have impressed and delivered at the highest level. Building on surveys undertaken through Personnel Today magazine, and research via Roffey Park Institute, Holbeche provides a set of tools and case studies that show how HR strategists have utilised their skills to deliver a variety of key business objectives, often within their current job role. The relationship between an effective people strategy and business success is hard to quantify in financial terms, but Holbeche provides persuasive examples to add to the growing body of evidence. Case studies include Mergers & Acquisitions policies, organizational design, retaining high flyers in an international environment, and core competency approaches. Linda Holbeche's previous book on Motivating People in Lean Organizations was shortlisted for the MCA book prize in 1998.
Download or read book Local Response to Federal Budget Policies written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Human Resource Management written by R. Paul Battaglio Jr. and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Human Resource Management: Strategies and Practices in the 21st Century offers a novel take on public human resource management (PHRM) by providing practical guidance for practitioners operating in a drastically reformed HR environment. Author R. Paul Battaglio assesses how the traditional practice of public HR has changed—and not necessarily for the better--by looking at new material on human resource information systems, managing motivation in the public sector, and public HR management education (a topic rarely found in contemporary PHRM texts). Public Human Resource Management is an essential guide to managing and navigating the challenges and opportunities posed in the changing landscape of HR reform.
Download or read book Public Sector Performance written by Richard Kearney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronted with rising citizen discontent, the Reinventing Government movement, and new technological challenges, public organizations everywhere are seeking means of improving their performance. Their quest is not new, rather, the concern with improving the performance of government organizations has existed since the Scientific Management Movement. Public Sector Performance brings together in a single volume the classic, enduring principles and processes that have defined the field of public sector performance, as written in the words of leading practitioners and scholars. Taken as a whole, this volume provides a performance compass for today's public managers, helping them to reconstruct the public's confidence in, and support of, government.Defined here as managing public organizations for outcomes, performance is examined in all its varied dimensions: organizing work, managing workers, measuring performance, and overcoming resistance to performance-enhancing innovations. The selected articles are interesting, thought provoking, and instructive. They are classics in that they have been widely cited in the scholarly literature and have enduring value to public managers who seek to understand the many dimensions of performance. The book is organized into three sections: Performance Foundations, Performance Strategies, and Performance Measurement. Excerpts from additional selected articles feature special topics and wisdom from performance experts.
