Discusses issues of database security and integrity, including computer crime and vandalism, human error, computer viruses, employee and user access, and personnel policies. Suggests some precautions to minimize system vulnerability such as careful personnel screening, audit systems, passwords, and building and software security systems. (JKP)

Changes in views of personnel selection research include changing opinions about choosing predictors and criteria, methods of data collection, and methods of evaluating selection procedures. Distinctions are made between job-relatedness, inferred from validity coefficients based on job-related criteria, and the valid measurement of a trait,…

The entity-relationship (ER) approach to database design is defined, and a specific example of an ER model (personnel-payroll) is examined. The requirements for converting ER models into specific database management systems are discussed. (Author/MSE)

Examined whether resume determinateness (lack of ambiguity) is related to positive employer evaluations. Male and female personnel professionals rated resumes in which sex, age, marital status, and academic achievement information were varied. Ambiguous information did not consistently distort evaluation. (RC)

Arbitration can be a way to settle employee grievances efficiently and fairly. Count on spending five or six hours in preparation for each hour spent with the arbitrator. Presents strategies for meticulous preparation. (MLF)

Provides guidelines for consistent maintenance of staff information by schools, school districts, state education agencies, and other institutions. The handbook includes guidelines for designing automated staff accounting systems for use by schools, school districts, state education agencies, and other institutions. (Author/SLD)

As part of a larger study, Victoria Day Care Research Project, caregivers representing three different types of caregiving arrangements (licensed center-based day care, licensed family day care homes, and unlicensed family day care homes) were interviewed regarding various caregiver-related areas. Interview data revealed distinctive profiles for…

In the 1986 Maine court decision "True v. Ladner," a school superintendent was found guilty of slander for a teacher recommendation. Many school attorneys are now advising superintendents and school officials not to provide references for former employees. If this becomes widespread the process of screening applicants for teaching…

This paper investigates the effect that turnover in an organization has on the attitudes of those who remain. A longitudinal study of three fast-food restaurants explored this relationship against the background of the social network structures in each site. Results underscore the importance of structural context in studying microphenomena. (TE)

Presents the rationale, method, results, analysis, and discussion of a survey of public libraries in the United States and Canada which asked for sex of director, director's salary, director's length of tenure, size of population served, per capita support, and beginning professional salary. This study extends work by Carpenter and Shearer (1972).…

Tested hypotheses that congruence between internal need states and external environments drives organizational choice process and that those attracted to particular organizations are more homogeneous than general applicant pool. Evaluated college students (N=211) on 14 needs, then indicated job preferences based on two videotaped interviews.…

Top administration needs data on which to formulate or change policies. That data often lies dormant in the personnel files. This suggests the need for proaction of the personnel officer in the form of a series of "mini-reports" to top management on a variety of subjects. (MLW)

Provides the following national and state data for public elementary and secondary schools in 1999-2000: (1) number of students enrolled; (2) number of staff by type; (3) number of high school graduates; and (4) race/ethnicity of students and graduates. Data are from the Common Core of Data program. (Author/SLD)

Eighty-three public two-year college collective bargaining contracts and 47 four-year college contracts in 13 states and the District of Columbia were reviewed to examine references to personnel files. Sixty-six (80 percent) of the two-year contracts contained such clauses, as opposed to 23 of the four-year contracts. This paper catalogues the…

Presents several theories of personnel organization as they relate to the operation of two-year colleges; discusses the personnel staff and its functions; highlights policies and procedures carried out by the personnel department; and discusses personnel record maintenance as an important function of the personnel department. (DMM)