A sample of 103 government scientists was evaluated by panels of peers in regard to personnel action such as promotion. Analysis of information used by the panels and other data external to the process showed that peer ratings could be predicted accurately using only four variables: number of publications, honors and awards received, special…

This paper outlines prohibited practices in collective bargaining when they take place in public education. After discussing rights of public employees as they parallel the language of the National Labor Relations Act, the paper goes indepth into five practices generally prohibited by state law: (1) domination of and interference with employee…

In their 1977 decision, "Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle," the Supreme Court held that if a government employee who had a reasonable expectation of continued employment is dismissed and can show that his dismissal was motivated by his taking actions that are constitutionally protected, the employing agency…

Data on public sector superannuation plans in Ontario provide the basis for this examination of the current situation regarding the pension funds for public employees and teachers. The report describes and compares the employee/employer contributions, basic benefits, rates of return, and ratio of beneficiaries to contributors in various public…

Evidence for this paper is based on the application of cross-section wage level and change regressions to national samples of teachers in determining the impact of unionization on teacher salaries. The findings contradict most of the previous empirical research (supporting a weak union paradigm and finding only marginal wage effects for…

More than 250,000 federal employees nationwide are participating in a three-year voluntary experiment to find out if the federal government can successfully use flexible and compressed work schedules as alternatives to the traditional eight-hour day, forty-hour workweek. If the experiment is a success, the Congress may modify laws to allow…

The aim of this plan is to provide the reader with an outline of the New York State Education Department's commitment to equal employment opportunity and its obligation to comply with various anti-discrimination laws. These laws include the New York State Human Rights Law, the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972, Section 504 of the…

The Insurance Services Office (ISO) of New York has filed two new insurance programs which will become effective nationwide on October 1, 1979, and are of special interest to social service agencies involved with transporting clients. The new insurance classification covering social service transportation programs, Liability Insurance for Vehicles…

Staff members of the Weber County Library System in Utah were studied in a research project to determine the effect on staff knowledge of library policies and procedures of (1) an employee handbook and (2) the handbook supplemented by a formal orientation procedure. Data were obtained from three randomly selected groups of library staff members in…

This monograph presents an overview of Pennsylvania's law governing collective bargaining for public employees (Act 195) and reviews Pennsylvania's experience under the law since its enactment in 1970. The passage of Act 195 for the first time made it possible for Pennsylvania public employees to bargain collectively and to legally strike when…

The handbook is a guide for Internal Revenue Service (IRS) personnel managers charged with providing career counseling for employees involved in the voluntary Upward Mobility program. Any IRS employee in a career ladder where the journeyman level is grade 7 or lower is eligible to compete for an Upward Mobility Target Position. Every employee in…

About 960,000 U.S. civilian employees have received about 45 million hours of training, costing the Federal Government about $216 million. To find out how the Civil Service Commission and the Federal Executive department measured the effectiveness of this training, fulfilled the evaluation requirements of the Government Employees Training Act of…

The document presents tools designed to assist supervisors of personnel specialists in the systematic assessment and identification of the training needs of individual personnel specialists in Federal agencies. The two major components are the questionnaires and the system of scoring and interpreting the questionnaires. The methodology will enable…

A summary of long term training programs (graduate study and/or research) provided for its civilian employees by the United States Air Force, and administered by colleges, universities, and senior service colleges includes information on participation, use of educational institutions, grade level and progress of employees, and current status of…

The project objectives were: (1) to assess existing industrial upgrading practices in an Atomic Energy Commission contractor organization, (2) to design new alternative upgrading methods, (3) to experiment with new upgrading methods, (4) to plan for utilization of proven upgrading programs, and (5) to document and disseminate activities. A twelve…