Exam 5: Public Personnel Administration and Collective Bargaining

The Hatch Acts of 1939 and 1940 deal with the political neutrality of civil servants.

The Federal Labor Relations Authority can arbitrate the wages of most federal employees.

Affirmative action is limited to members of minority groups.

Criterion-related validation includes

Which of the following is not a feature of the Civil Service Reform Act (1978)?

Does the political agenda of the nineteenth century civil service reformers continue to affect public personnel administration today? If so, how?

An eligibles register is a list of individuals who have passed a civil service examination within a given period of time.

Most public administrators have

Who coined the social diversity phrase "make government look like America"?

Which agency is specifically authorized to protect whistleblowers?

President Clinton's executive orders concerning labor-management partnerships were rescinded by President Bush.

Affirmative action has recently been handed a series of defeats from our nation's courts and has forced many public administrators to rethink their equal employment opportunity policies. What other policies, besides affirmative action, can the government use to ensure that its workforce is socially representative of the nation as a whole? What type of problems can you foresee with these policies, especially with respect to equity? Do you think your policies will endure strict judicial scrutiny?

The doctrine of privilege held that

In collective bargaining, an impasse results when

There is a tendency for organizations to get what they measure with regard to performance appraisal instruments. What effects (positive and negative) may this have on performance? What could be done to overcome these problems? Give specific examples.

The Supreme Court recognizes the legality of union shops.

Mediation or fact-finding generally follows grievance arbitration.

A problem with position classification has been

Position classification promotes administrative impersonality.

Occupational segregation or discrimination is opposed by the spirit and/or letter of contemporary equal opportunity law. What are the advantages and disadvantages of establishing "comparable worth" to deal with such segregation or discrimination?