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Public Personnel Administration Midterm
Exam Questions And Answers
What is the mission of Public Personnel Administration? - Answers✔acquire, develop, and retain talent.
Align the workforce with businesses.
What is the purpose of human resource management? - Answers✔Maximize the productivity by
optimizing the effectiveness of its employees
What are the responsibilities of human resource managers ? - Answers✔staffing, employee
compensation, benefits and defining work.
What is human resource management involved with ? - Answers✔Organizational behavior, human
behavior, leadership, motivation, management and politics.
Two types of employees ? - Answers✔classified: paid hourly and their job duties are routine- following a
standard of rules. [ union/ non-union] $25K
Unclassified: Serve the pleasure of the appointing body [never union]. More at risk. $50k
What is Public Personnel Administration? - Answers✔Public Human Resource Management that is
concerned with public organization's workforce including:
Acquisition
Development
Utilization
Compensation
Public Human Resource Management - Answers✔Subject to formal rules that constrain their activities. [
Red Tape]
Subject to informal constraining influences: media, influence groups, political parties, public opinion,
and elected officials.
Multidisciplinary influences of Human Resource Management - Answers✔Sociology
Psychology
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Political Science
Organization Behavior
Leadership
Motivation
Private Human Resource Management - Answers✔More flexibility
Not subject to red tape= no constraint from formal or informal sources.
What is Personnel ? - Answers✔people employed in an organization undertaking services.
Examples: Employees/ Workers
What is an organization? - Answers✔a group of individuals working towards a goal
What is management ? - Answers✔The process of accomplishing an organization's goals through people.
for example: development of policies for effective use of human resource in an organization.
Psychological and productivity goals are pivotal to the relationship of management between the
individual and employee. The goals are interactive and reciprocal.
Why does Human Resource Management matter ? - Answers✔Provides assets to an organization
Good HRM will help maximize the benefits of an organization
What is the Paradox Puzzle ? - Answers✔Depicted through: mapping, theorizing and conceptualizing.
It is rapid and spastic.
Two truthful contradictions that mock both study and practice.
Examples:
Paradox of democracy-citizen rights vs. employee rights
What areas does Human Resource Management deal with ? - Answers✔Worker unrest
Labor shortages
Performance measurements
Craft policies
Hire, promote, discipline and fire employees
Response to grievances
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What are people management problems? - Answers✔HRM managers weighing the pros and cons of
each decision
long term and short term decisions
staying organized
dealing with problems as they come up on an individual basis
What are challenges in getting and managing the right people ? - Answers✔Declining confidence in
government
demands for productivity gains
emerging virtual workplaces and government
declining budgets
rightsizing and downsizing despite population growth
Definition of personnel administration - Answers✔deals with internal processes including: staffing,
position management, pay systems and efficient application of the rules and procedures of the civil
service system.
Human Resource Management defintion - Answers✔the function within an organization that focuses on
the recruitment & management of the people.
It embraces a broader focus and has relevance for HR specialist, line managers, and executives.
It encompasses all decision affecting the relationship between the individual and organization.
Civil Service Defintion - Answers✔the government employees in permanent public service excluding
legislative, judicial, or uniformed military; position are filled based on competitive examinations, a
professional career public service exists with protection against political influence and patronage.
Traditional Personnel Administration vs. HRM - Answers✔Traditional Personnel Administration:
concerned with internal processes including recruitment, compensation and discipline
Application of the rules and procedures of the civil service system.
Human Resource Management: Embraces a broader, more " people focused"
Encompasses all decisions affecting their relationship between the individual and organization including:
reward systems
organizational design
staffing
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Public Personnel Administration Midterm
Exam Questions And Answers
What is the mission of Public Personnel Administration? - Answers✔acquire, develop, and retain talent.
Align the workforce with businesses.
What is the purpose of human resource management? - Answers✔Maximize the productivity by
optimizing the effectiveness of its employees
What are the responsibilities of human resource managers ? - Answers✔staffing, employee
compensation, benefits and defining work.
What is human resource management involved with ? - Answers✔Organizational behavior, human
behavior, leadership, motivation, management and politics.
Two types of employees ? - Answers✔classified: paid hourly and their job duties are routine- following a
standard of rules. [ union/ non-union] $25K
Unclassified: Serve the pleasure of the appointing body [never union]. More at risk. $50k
What is Public Personnel Administration? - Answers✔Public Human Resource Management that is
concerned with public organization's workforce including:
Acquisition
Development
Utilization
Compensation
Public Human Resource Management - Answers✔Subject to formal rules that constrain their activities. [
Red Tape]
Subject to informal constraining influences: media, influence groups, political parties, public opinion,
and elected officials.
Multidisciplinary influences of Human Resource Management - Answers✔Sociology
Psychology
, ©SIRJOEL EXAM SOLUTIONS 2024/2025
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Political Science
Organization Behavior
Leadership
Motivation
Private Human Resource Management - Answers✔More flexibility
Not subject to red tape= no constraint from formal or informal sources.
What is Personnel ? - Answers✔people employed in an organization undertaking services.
Examples: Employees/ Workers
What is an organization? - Answers✔a group of individuals working towards a goal
What is management ? - Answers✔The process of accomplishing an organization's goals through people.
for example: development of policies for effective use of human resource in an organization.
Psychological and productivity goals are pivotal to the relationship of management between the
individual and employee. The goals are interactive and reciprocal.
Why does Human Resource Management matter ? - Answers✔Provides assets to an organization
Good HRM will help maximize the benefits of an organization
What is the Paradox Puzzle ? - Answers✔Depicted through: mapping, theorizing and conceptualizing.
It is rapid and spastic.
Two truthful contradictions that mock both study and practice.
Examples:
Paradox of democracy-citizen rights vs. employee rights
What areas does Human Resource Management deal with ? - Answers✔Worker unrest
Labor shortages
Performance measurements
Craft policies
Hire, promote, discipline and fire employees
Response to grievances
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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
What are people management problems? - Answers✔HRM managers weighing the pros and cons of
each decision
long term and short term decisions
staying organized
dealing with problems as they come up on an individual basis
What are challenges in getting and managing the right people ? - Answers✔Declining confidence in
government
demands for productivity gains
emerging virtual workplaces and government
declining budgets
rightsizing and downsizing despite population growth
Definition of personnel administration - Answers✔deals with internal processes including: staffing,
position management, pay systems and efficient application of the rules and procedures of the civil
service system.
Human Resource Management defintion - Answers✔the function within an organization that focuses on
the recruitment & management of the people.
It embraces a broader focus and has relevance for HR specialist, line managers, and executives.
It encompasses all decision affecting the relationship between the individual and organization.
Civil Service Defintion - Answers✔the government employees in permanent public service excluding
legislative, judicial, or uniformed military; position are filled based on competitive examinations, a
professional career public service exists with protection against political influence and patronage.
Traditional Personnel Administration vs. HRM - Answers✔Traditional Personnel Administration:
concerned with internal processes including recruitment, compensation and discipline
Application of the rules and procedures of the civil service system.
Human Resource Management: Embraces a broader, more " people focused"
Encompasses all decisions affecting their relationship between the individual and organization including:
reward systems
organizational design
staffing
