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Week 6

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Supervising Public Employees: Challenges

Imagine that you are a manager in a local government agency. Your office is tasked with a

new long-term project and you feel that you don’t have the adequate personnel on your

team to handle the new responsibilities. You meet with your team and everyone hopes

that someone new can be hired to take on this new project. But you know that there have

been budget constraints in your agency, and no new funding has become available. In

terms of government agencies, Cohen, Eimicke, and Heikkila (2013, p. 47) state, “Hiring

the right person for a government job is usually an extremely complex and difficult task.”

They describe the bureaucracy involved in getting approvals to hire someone, stating that

“most public personnel management takes place in a highly regulated or unionized

environment” (Cohen, Eimicke, & Heikkila, 2013, p.48).

An important challenge of human resource management is, of course, recruiting qualified

staff. Job postings can often be responded to by hundreds of applicants. Many of these

will be qualified; many will not be qualified. When considering recruiting staff for a public

agency or nonprofit organization, the fit between a candidate, the work, and the

organization is of significant importance. But finding the right person is only part of the

task of recruitment, and public agencies, as mentioned above, can have important

bureaucratic challenges that can feel encumbering when seeking to hire new staff. Thus,

the processes that are required before hiring someone (including, sometimes, obtaining

new budgetary approval), are important considerations as a public administrator.

On another note, job candidates for, and employees serving in, the public sector may have

motivations that differ from those outside this sector. While everyone has different

reasons for performing the job that they do, the motivation for those in public sector

employment may include job security, benefits, or an interest in public service. Related to

this, as Perry and Christensen (2015, p.363) explain, job candidates, in their interviews,

can be asked about how they ‘fit’ with the organization’s values, or the job’s importance

can be emphasized to job candidates.

As Rainey and Cook (2014, p.263) state, motivation in work refers to someone’s desire to

work well and work hard, and the persistence and excitement they feel in their work. As a

public administrator, you will interact with employees, and quite possibly manage one or

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Books and Resources for this Week

Cohen, S., Eimicke, W. B., & Heikkila, T.

(2013). The effective public manager:

Achieving success in government

organizations. San Francisco, CA... Link

Morse, R. S., & Buss, T. F. (2008).

Innovations in public leadership

development. Armonk, NY: M.E.

Sharpe. Link

many. Similar to the need to recruit the right personnel, staying in tune with what

motivates your staff is important to help them succeed and enjoy their work.

This week’s assignment allows you to engage the readings so that you can prepare a

PowerPoint presentation about the topic of supervising public employees and motivation.

Be sure to review this week's resources carefully. You are expected to apply the

information from these resources when you prepare your assignments.

References:

Cohen, S., Eimicke, W. B., & Heikkila, T. (2013). The effective public manager: Achieving

success in government organizations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Perry, J. L., & Christensen, R. K. (2015). Handbook of public administration. San Francisco,

CA: Jossey-Bass.

Rainey, H. G., & Cook, M. (2014). Understanding and managing public organizations. San

Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

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Morse, R. S., & Buss, T. F. (2008).

Innovations in public leadership

development. Armonk, NY: M.E.

Sharpe. Link

Perry, J. L., & Christensen, R. K. (2015).

Handbook of public administration. San

Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Link

Rainey, H. G., & Cook, M. (2014).

Understanding and managing public

organizations. San Francisco, CA:

Jossey-Bass. Link

Rainey, H. G., & Cook, M. (2014).

Understanding and managing public

organizations. San Francisco, CA:

Jossey-Bass. Link

Week 6 - Assignment: Create a PowerPoint

Presentation Assignment

Due October 31 at 11:59 PM

Returning to the fictional committee made up of department heads you are a part of in

the city government in which you live (or another city, if you wish), this week you have

been asked to conduct research on motivating and supervising employees. Specifically,

you have been asked to develop for, and present a short PowerPoint presentation to, your

department head colleagues on this topic because there has been some worry that staff

are feeling unmotivated. Your colleagues wonder if supervision practices need some re-

working in the offices of the city government you serve. Your department head colleagues

are looking to you again to help them. To complete this task, you have decided to use

some of the course materials from this week and last week. Using these sources, analyze

the topic of supervising public employees and motivation.

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Create a PowerPoint presentation discussing the topic of supervising public

employees and motivation.

Instead of writing speaker notes under the PowerPoint slides, create an audio file

for each slide after you have created it. Record your voice as if you were actually

presenting this PowerPoint to your department head colleagues (remember, you

are also a department head in this scenario). Do not just read the text on the slides.

Rather, create a compelling presentation that is interesting, enjoyable, and

demonstrates your new knowledge on this topic.

Length: 12-15 slides with voiceover recording

References: Include a minimum of four scholarly resources.

Your presentation should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts

presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this

topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure

to adhere to Northcentral University's Academic Integrity Policy.

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