Former head of Personnel Board blasts selectmen; Allegations on handling of files addressed.
Byline: Karen Nugent CLINTON - Another disillusioned ex-appointee to a town board blasted the selectmen Wednesday night. Maryann N. Castillo, former chairwoman of the town's Personnel Board, said she was at the meeting to set the record straight regarding what she described as disturbing telephone...

Board seeks to level non-union pay rates; Disparity said to exceed 13 percent.
Byline: Lynne Klaft LANCASTER - The Personnel Board calculates that town employees who are not in unions are underpaid - specifically, getting pay more than 13 percent below the average for the North Central region. "It's time we start paying our employees back," Cindy McLaughlin,...

Managing student employees in college libraries, 3d ed.
0838983731 Managing student employees in college libraries, 3d ed. Kathman, Michael D. and Jane M. Kathman. Am. Library Association 2006 198 pages $28.00 Paperback CLIP note; #36 Z682 Michael...

A more dangerous place.
In a complete reversal, some American work has recently gotten more dangerous. Terrorism bring the battlefield to civilians here, the Pentagon brings civilians to battlefields there. Natural disasters are kicking more sand in our eyes. Invisibly inked into more job descriptions is a new function: crisis responder. ...

Computer programming: a career in information technology: there are many career options within the information technology industry ranging from server technicians to program analysts. This article looks at the role that computer programmers play and what it takes to become one.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] INFORMATION technology job titles have always had a cool factor associated to them. From systems engineers to software programmers, though job titles and descriptions vary within the industry, each function sounds highly technical. Computer programmers seem to be involved in several fields within the IT...

Strengthening workforce resiliency in the public sector: by following practical guidelines from the new field of resiliency psychology, public managers can navigate through rough periods of change and bounce back from setbabcks.
In today's world of nonstop change, public managers need a highly resilient workforce. In the past, government managers ran stable, efficient organizations, which operated for decades without much change. Public-sector workers did what their managers told them to do and were evaluated on how well they followed their job...

Overtime pay not required for holidays.
Byline: ON THE JOB by Bureau of Labor and Industries For The Register-Guard Question: My company policy is to give employees a paid day off for Christmas and New Year's Day. Our regular working days are Monday through Friday, and both of these holidays fall on Sundays...

Appraisal of K-12 school physical structures: a model for facilities assessment.
Introduction With the increase of school enrollments in numerous K-12 school districts throughout the United States, many of the facilities used for student instruction are inadequate or greatly in need of repair (Castaldi, 1994). Building issues such as the water pouring through a hole in the classroom...

How to get your CEO's attention: many chief executive officers underestimate, undervalue and underutilize marketing. If you are faced with this situation, here are a few smart countermoves that can help raise your profile.
CEOs have different definitions of the term "marketing" due to the varying interpretations of the word and the activities associated with it. Most marketing directors suffer from feelings of insecurity and inferiority, which is often traced back to lack of direction concerning the importance of their work. ...

Hell on tip-toe: gone are the days when steamrolling heavy artillery was primarily intended to indiscriminately pour fire and steel over the enemy lines before one's own mechanized cavalry and infantry could roll in--at least in the Western World. A new trend has since developed.
For quite a while the KMW-Rheinmetall PzH2000 is likely to remain the only Western post-Cold War heavy self-propelled howitzer to have been fielded and exported. Even the American revolutionary Crusader leviathan fell victim to the changing East-West picture and armies now have to be content with upgraded systems like...