Civil Service Reform Act of 1978

such a vast number of employees would take a system nearly as complex as the government itself. The civil service system was created to do exactly that. The purpose of this paper is to explore the origin, history, and evolution of this system and its relevance today. The civil service system is often referred to a personnel administration or, a better-known term; human resources. Merriam –Webster’s dictionary defines personnel administration as the phase of management concerned with the engagement and effective utilization of manpower to obtain optimum efficiency of human resources. What we know as…

The Office of Personal Management was established by Theodore Roosevelt is considered to be the father of the cutting edge merit-based administration. Merit is a term which means the value of quality of something or someone. Merit selection ensures that selection is based only on a person's ability to perform the work. Merit selection aims to choose the best person for the job, resulting in a quality workforce. OPM's history, which started with the Civil Service Act in 1883 and formally renamed…

government positions to those who supported their political party during the election allowing the government to become corrupt. After the assassination, the government began to realize a new system was necessary, the Pendleton Civil Service Act created laws with new requirements to ensure those up for the federal positions had the proper education and greater professionalism. This act was effective at accomplishing reform and progressive goals not only due to the fact that it ended the…

In 1883, Federal Law created the Civil Service Reform Act, which also has the name the Pendleton Act. Due to its design, incompetence, theft, corruption, graft widespread in the federal agencies and federations had to be eradicated. The Pendleton Act created the Civil Service Commission (CSC) whose duties were to streamline the merit and judicial systems. As the act’s major achievement, it set a basis of ensuring rights of federal employees, and further amendments refined the process by…

Political factors and the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 Politically, the 1970’s were a time of social welfare reform that allowed advocates the opportunity to push for tribal sovereignty and the overall wellbeing of Indian children. The success of this period as a highpoint in social welfare was largely due to the push for domestic legislation surrounding social welfare issues like the desegregation of schools, civil rights, voting rights, and War on Poverty (Blau, Abramovitz, 2014). This…

James MacGregor Burns’ Leadership also offers critical insight into the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of moral leadership. According to Burns, “transformational leadership demands commitment, persistence, courage, perhaps selflessness and self-abnegation. Pragmatic, transactional leadership requires a shrewd eye for opportunity, a good hand at bargaining, persuading, reciprocating.” Simply put, transformational leaders seek to mobilize their followers to through act of…

The expansive welfare society of the 1960s was mainly as a results of Johnson’s initiatives of 1965-1967, referred as the Golden Society (GML 977). According to GML the initiatives provided health services to the poor and elderly, direct food aid to the poor (food stamps), increased government spending in education and urban development. Johnson also set up new cabinet offices and agencies like Housing and Urban Development and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission respectively (GML 977). Such…

railroad industry has made a significant profit after deregulation. After deregulation, railroads are now able to adjust their rates and service to changing market conditions and are no longer required to provide profitless service. With a policy based on free-market principles, railroads will continue to play a major role in the U.S. economy. Therefore, I agree with fact that the US railroad industry has made a profit since deregulation, and seemingly has been rescued from bankruptcy with the…

PA531 Human Resource Mgmt Name: Xue Qin 1/26/2017 Research Memo of NLRB and FLRA NLRB, the National Labor Relations Board, is an independent federal agency vested with the ability to safeguard employees' rights to organize and to determine whether to have unions as their bargaining representative. The agency also acts to prevent and remedy unfair labor practices committed by private sector employers and unions. The NLRB is an independent Federal agency established to enforce the National Labor…

As society changes, trends repeat themselves throughout time. This same theory applies to the Reformation in England and the formation of the then newly established Church of England. No matter the circumstances, England’s reform was bound to happen. The English reform assisted in the creation of The Church of England, which follows the Christian faith. Anglicanism, today’s name the Christian denomination, is thought to be a happy medium between Protestant and Roman Catholic. The Reformation was…