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Akron Fire Lawsuit Results

December 24, 2008

Results from an Akron Public Service Lawsuit. A federal jury awarded 23 Akron firefighters nearly $2 million after finding that a 2004 test Akron used for lieutenant and captain positions skewed against white applicants for captain’s rank and black candidates for lieutenant.
The jurors, who delivered their verdict this afternoon before U.S. Judge John R. Adams, [...]

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EEOC, Applicants, Criminal Records

November 28, 2008

Two recent reminders from the IPMAAC listserv.
First, on the non-definition of applicants. A couple of years ago, I laughed when I commented on what was going to take so long. In the end, no definition was reached.
Second, on an EEOC conference on criminal records.

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HR & Strategy, Police Selection

November 20, 2008

I received a question about hr & strategy, which I have decided to address starting on Monday.
In the meantime, as a warmup, if you can get a hold of the latest IPMA-HR News (November 2008), there is a thoughtful article by Lindsay Muirhead on HR Transformation in the Public Sector, that deals with HR and [...]

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Local Events

November 14, 2008

It has been a number of days since we have blogged. My apologies. I was out of town. Now I realize that in this day of wireless covering every corner of the earth that should not have been a big problem. However, I have always had an bad memory (not an aging problem) and when [...]

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Performance Reviews Revisited

November 5, 2008

Last week I blogged about an article in the Wall Street Journal on Performance Reviews. Mark Hammer and Bryan Baldwin replied with excellent comments. If you have not reviewed their comments, I encourage you to go back and do so.
Monday a couple of letters to the Editor appeared in the Wall Street Journal. Those letters [...]

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Technology, Testing, and Voting

November 4, 2008

If you live in the US, I encourage you to vote today. (I am one of those people who like to vote on Election Day itself. It is the whole feel of the event. To me voting before Election Day is like waiting till after Christmas to buy presents just because they are on sale).
I [...]

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Beach Games

October 27, 2008

Today Crain’s Cleveland Business featured an article by Sharon Schnall on “Some firms spice things up with team-building activities.” This article extolled the virtues of such team oriented exercises as cooking and eating a meal together (which also seems to be featured in the Executive MBA programs we discussed earlier) and some sort of blindfolded [...]

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Should We Get Rid of Performance Reviews???

October 21, 2008

The argument that we should get rid of performance reviews is hardly a new one. The difficulty of effectively rating and appraising performance has been recognized for at least 50 years. No effective solution has been found and newer results suggest the problems may be even more intractable than previously thought. This does not even [...]

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Informed Consent

October 11, 2008

Informed consent is of primary concern to researchers and to psychologists, rather than internal HR personnel. However, in that it deals with ethics, it is a topic that should be of concern to anyone involved in the assessment of people.
The following comes from Ken Pope’s webpage. 
In the last couple of days I’ve expanded and updated [...]

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From Horse Sense to Music

October 2, 2008

What the leaders of the financial instutions were doing when they should have been in the class on not sending credit cards to dogs and children.
Music paradigms.

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