Managing human resources; personnel management in transition, 4th ed.
9781405118514 Managing human resources; personnel management in transition, 4th ed. Ed. by Stephen Bach. Blackwell Publishing 2005 480 pages $59.95 Paperback HF5549 Previously published as Personnel Management in 2000, this edition's...

Beyond Budgeting: a concept in two parts.
Pay for Performance Few issues promise to be more divisive in the public sector in this decade than the debate over "performance for pay"--or providing financial incentives to individuals. The October 2003 public meeting of the senior review group of US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and...

Teaching performance and turnover: a study of school teachers in Singapore.
How to improve performance and reduce turnover of teachers is two crucial issues for the education administrators. This study addressed these under-explored issues with a focus on stress and commitment, based on an investigation of 164 school teachers in Singapore. The findings of the study indicate that organisational commitment...

Work related stress in the outdoor education profession: a management perspective.
Abstract This paper focuses on work related stress within the outdoor education profession in Australia, based on the second part of a research project exploring human resource management issues in the Australian outdoor education profession. The first part of the project is described elsewhere (Thomas, 2001) and...

Evolving personnel selection practices in New Zealand organisations and recruitment firms.
Interviews were conducted with representatives from 100 randomly-selected organisations with 200 or more employees, and 30 recruitment consultancies in New Zealand in order to determine current personnel selection practices, how those practices have changed over recent years, and respondents' beliefs about the predictive validity of alternative selection procedures. In...

The challenge of managing diversity in South Africa: a long-time observer and researcher shares his views on new opportunities the human resources community has to transform itself and shift to more inclusive personnel policies and approaches.
Since April 1994, the dawn of democracy in South Africa brought challenges and opportunities in the public service. Remarkable opportunities were created for the previously disadvantaged as a result of the determination to eliminate racism, sexism, and religious oppression in the corridors of power. The enforcement of these "isms"...

A hard look in the mirror: a survey of pest management professionals (PMPs), and another of job-seekers outside the industry, spotlight our recruitment and retention strengths and weaknesses.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At this time of year, most of us are hypothesizing on what our spring work force should look like. How many people will we need to cover peak business times? How many will stay? Will I be lucky and land the uber-employees who will want...

The Ever-Widening Spectrum of Risk.
Several organizations abroad are challenging U.S. companies' definition of holistic risk, saying it is too narrow. True holistic risk, they conclude, should cover all conceivable risks, regardless of whether they can be covered by insurance. Just what does "corporate risk management" mean? That term is coming under...

Leadership, administration, management, and professionalism (LAMP) in physical therapy: a Delphi study.
The Guide to Physical Therapist Practice (2nd ed) (1) (Guide) provides what we believe is a useful framework for understanding the scope of physical therapist practice as it applies to direct patient care. In our opinion, however, the organizational context in which physical therapy is practiced receives little attention...

Relationships between frequency of use of career management practices and employee attitudes, intention to turnover, and job search behavior.
ABSTRACT A questionnaire measuring the frequency in which employees used various career management practices, as well as employee attitudes and behaviors was administered to employees in divisions of a southern state's government departments of revenue, auditing and education. Results show that frequency of use of career management...