day 1

Seminar in Public Human Resources Administration:

Questions & Key Terms [Day One]

Critical Thinking Questions

1. Identify and describe the four public personnel management functions (PADS).

2. What are the four competing values that have traditionally affected the allocation of public jobs? Which three nongovernment values that have emerged recently conflict with them?

3. What is a personnel system?

4. What are the key programs that are impacting public personnel systems? Give an example of each.

5. Identify and describe the four traditional competing public personnel systems. What are the two emergent antigovernment personnel systems that have recently been added to them?

6. What does each of these three groups (elected and appointed officials, managers and supervisors, and HR directors and specialists) contribute to public personnel management?

7. What are the six stages in the development of the role of the public HR manager? What different expectations have people had for them in each stage?

8. What competencies do HR managers need, and where can they get them?

Key Terms: Please define and give one example

1. Civil Service Reform Act of (1978)

2. civil service (merit) system

3. collective bargaining

4. decentralized government

5. equal employment opportunity systems

6. faith-based organizations (FBOs)

7. franchise agreements

8. human resource management (HRM)

9. nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)

10. nonstandard work arrangements (NSWA)

11. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

12. partnerships

13. Pendleton Act (1883)

14. political patronage system

15. privatization

16. contingent workers

17. exempt appointments

18. professional associations