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Hays, Steven W.; Kearney, Richard C. – Public Administration Review, 1992
A survey of the 50 state personnel directors found that (1) their attitudes and actions reflect a concern for social equity issues; (2) 21 were women and 6 African American; (3) they experience similar role conflicts and tensions as federal civil servants; and (4) state personnel systems are addressing equity issues and benefit flexibility. (SK)
Descriptors: Government Employees, Individual Characteristics, Personnel Directors, Personnel Management

Sulock, Joseph M. – Journal of Economic Education, 1990
Presents several time-effective classroom games that can be used to help students discover the consequences of two important concepts in public finance: the free rider problem and the voting paradox. Maintains that these games encourage student involvement and stimulate class discussion. (DB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Economics, Economics Education, Educational Games

Kiesling, Herbert J. – Journal of Economic Education, 1990
Describes some of the relatively unknown aspects of the concept of public goods and shows how they might be brought into undergraduate textbooks in microeconomic principles, public finance, and welfare economics. Illustrates how these aspects of public goods can be brought into undergraduate instruction. (DB)
Descriptors: Economics, Economics Education, Higher Education, Public Policy

Greenlaw, Paul S.; Kohl, John P. – Public Personnel Management, 1993
Review of case law in educational administration, hospitals, correctional institutions, and the military shows that, when risk of AIDS transmission is high, courts will support public sector administrators' decisions. Low risk means such decisions as mandatory blood testing will usually be struck down. (SK)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Employer Employee Relationship

Aronsson, Gunnar; Bejerot, Eva; Harenstam, Annika – Public Personnel Management, 1999
Swedish professionals (n=3,595) ranked their perceptions of healthy work. There was a great discrepancy between the ideal and the real for work intellectuality (stimulus, independence, encouragement of innovation and initiative). The value of work showed more congruence between ideal and real. Lowest-ranked aspects were being well paid and having…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Private Sector
Cook, Keith – Perspectives, 1999
Compares approaches and trends in lifelong learning in Britain, Sweden, and Germany. The centrally planned Swedish approach increasingly needs to curb public expenditure. The German experience, an integrated partnership between the state and the private sector, is particularly sensitive to downturns in the economic cycle. The British approach…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Efficiency, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Kilpatrick, Sue; Bound, Helen – Australian and New Zealand Journal of Vocational Education Research, 2001
Case studies of training brokers who match clients with appropriate training reveal different outcomes for clients of for-profit, market-focused brokers and nonprofit, client-focused brokers. Results suggest the need for public support of training and development of clients as informed consumers of vocational education and training. (Contains 28…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Networks, Nonprofit Organizations, Outcomes of Education
Pantazis, Cynthia – Training and Development, 1996
Looks at the current federal job training and workforce development structure and suggests that they have many problems. Also describes reforms passed by several states, notably Texas. Suggests that partnership between public and private sectors is crucial to develop and maintain a system that meets everyone's needs. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Federal Legislation, Labor Force Development, Lifelong Learning

Grepperud, Gunnar; Stokken, Anne Marie; Toska, Jan Atle – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2002
The development of distance education in Norway has had to bridge the gap between two systems: a large network of public universities and colleges and a small network of public and private agencies that included distance education and adult education organizations. This mixture of public and private sectors has led to new and more hybrid forms of…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Cooperation, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries

DeMers, Allen – Public Personnel Management, 2002
Public administrators can deal with unstable nature of demand for information technology workers with (1) flexible and technology-enhanced hiring practices; (2) organization-wide commitment to recruiting; (3) bonuses and innovative awards; (4) professional development opportunities; (5) an innovative work environment; and (6) publicity. (Contains…
Descriptors: Demand Occupations, Employment Practices, Information Technology, Labor Turnover
Elkjaer, Bente – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2005
Purpose: To explore whether deliberate organisational change of a public sector organisation (a local municipality) would create an avenue for organisational learning. Design/methodology/approach: A case study was set up to study the means by which the organisational change towards a digital administration was to come about. The organisational…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Optics, Organizational Change, Public Sector
Duhart, Wana L. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007
This book is a roadmap for developing collaborative strategies that integrate the knowledge, ideas, expertise, resources, networks, and systems of the nonprofit, private, public, and religious sectors in the transformation of elementary and secondary schools. While most books on school reform focus on micro issues such as curricula,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Restructuring, Private Sector, Public Sector
Saltman, Kenneth – Policy Futures in Education, 2007
This article discusses how representations of individual discipline and risk-taking in mass media inform the broader public discourses about public education and the public sector generally. Such representations and narratives about individual discipline and risk-taking often function in mass media as moral imperatives of consumer culture. Such…
Descriptors: Discipline, Public Sector, Politics of Education, Mass Media
Behrman, Gary; Mancini, Michael; Briar-Lawson, Katharine; Rizzo, Victoria M.; Baskind, Frank; Valentine, Carl – Journal of Social Work Education, 2006
Changing U.S. demographics and family composition are challenging social work education programs to reposition and reconsider how to prepare students for practice in the field of geriatrics. Implications for future social service and health care needs include ongoing training and education of students with competencies in serving geriatric…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Geriatrics, Social Work, Work Study Programs
Goel, Sanjay; Pon, Damira; Bloniarz, Peter; Bangert-Drowns, Robert; Berg, George; Delio, Vince; Iwan, Laura; Hurbanek, Thomas; Schuman, Sandoor P.; Gangolly, Jagdish; Baykal, Adnan; Hobbs, Jon – Journal on Educational Resources in Computing, 2006
A novel idea for information security education created by the New York State Center for Information Forensics and Assurance (CIFA) is presented. This new approach incorporates a teaching hospital model originally developed for medical training. In this model, information security problems from industry and government are solved and abstracted…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Curriculum Development, Hospitals, Computer Security