Week 1 - Assignment: Assess Personnel Management Approaches in Public Administration and Week 2 - Assignment: Generate Best Practices for Recruitment and Selection

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Week 1

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Exploring Public Service and Governing in the Workplace

You are a skilled administrator who has applied to work in Public Organization X. Your

specialties are vast: public administration in general, administrative laws, theories on

public and organizational management, leadership and strategic management, and

budgeting. As someone who specializes in public administration, you understand a

personnel administrator needs to know about how all of the topics mentioned above

relate to the human capital within an organization. This week, you will take a walk down

memory lane to share everything you have learned to this point and apply it from the

perspective of a personnel administrator – for your big job interview as Director of

Personnel Administration for Public Organization X.

Before your big interview, you will not only take a self-assessment to ensure you are

currently in the field, but you will also explore the history of public personnel

management. As with many facets of public administration, it is interesting to note how

personnel management has shifted as a focus of study for public administrators over the

years.

Just as there are different eras of public administration, public personnel administration

has also evolved in stages. In the United States, for example, the beginning of the

personnel administration system was marked by responsiveness only as the dominant

value. In the very early phases of personnel management, most people obtained jobs

based on their social status. As time progressed, other values like efficiency, social equity,

and individual rights joined responsiveness as dominant values of the time. This shift

includes the inception of concepts and laws such as affirmative action and employee

rights. These values drove (and continue to drive) working conditions for the American

people. Today, the values of community responsibility and collaboration have also joined

the dominant values. You will see later in the course exactly how these additional values

have shaped areas like employee policies and working conditions in general.

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

information from these resources when you prepare your assignments.

Heads-Up to the Signature Assignment

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Books and Resources for this Week

Budhwar, P. S., & Boyne, G. (2004).

Human resource management in the

Indian public and private sectors: An

empirical comparison. International... Link

Kearney, R. C., & Coggburn, J. D.

(2016). Public human resource

management: Problems and prospects.

Los Angeles: CQ Press. Link

Langbert, M. (2002). Continuous

improvement in the history of human

resource management. Management

Decision, 40(10), 932-937. Link

Rosenbloom, D. H. (2010, December).

Public sector human resource

management in 2020. Public

Administration Review, 70, s175–s176. Link

Your culminating Signature Assignment (due in Week 8) will be a reflection of all that you

have learned within the course, and it may require that you complete some work ahead of

time. Your Signature Assignment for this course will be to diagnose and prescribe

potential interventions for failing Public Organization X. To ensure you are prepared and

have adequate time to complete this assignment, please review the instructions by

looking ahead to Week 8. You can contact your professor if you have questions.

50 % 3 of 6 topics complete

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Week 1 Check Your Understanding Quiz

Week 1 - Assignment: Assess Personnel Management

Approaches in Public Administration Assignment

Due February 6 at 11:59 PM

As part of this week’s assignment, you will need to complete a Check Your Understanding.

Review the materials carefully and submit the required assignment before 11:59 pm

Arizona time on Sunday.

For this assignment, reflect on what you have learned about public administration so far

and incorporate that knowledge with what you have read this week. You will use these

results to prepare an elevator speech for your interview for the position of Director of

Personnel Administration for Public Organization X. An elevator speech is concise,

focusing on the most important aspects of the results of a conversation. Here, that

conversation is your interview.

Assume you are now in your hypothetical interview for the position of Director of

Personnel Administration for Public Organization X. The interview question is prompt.

Reflect on the following statement and construct a winning elevator speech based on

your combined knowledge from previous courses and the current week's readings.

Prompt: The job of a public personnel administrator is to manage human capital within the

organization.

Length: 3-5 pages, not including title and reference pages

References: Include a minimum of 5 scholarly resources.

Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts

presented in the course by providing 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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