450 Subject Index
PBD Worldwide Fulfi llment
Services, 392
Peace Corps, 131
Pena, Adarand Constructors v., 82
Pendleton Act, 6
Pension Benefi t Guaranty
Corporation, 293, 307
Pension plans, 289–292
Pension Protection Act, 291
Pension Rights Center, 307
Performance: adaptive, 205;
contextual, job analysis and,
165, 174–175; current theories
of, 204; paying based on,
266–268
Performance evaluations: of board
members, 139; determining
raters for, 227–228;
documentation during,
231–232; equity of, 398;
ethical issues involving
appraisals and, 233–234;
of executives, 228–231;
and feedback, 267; and job
analysis, 151; performance
appraisal techniques used for,
234–241; and research on
performance appraisals, 217;
reviewing, with employees,
232–233; of volunteers, 130
Performance evaluation systems:
developing, 223–224;
dissatisfaction with, 217; items
to consider prior to developing,
243, 244 ; and quality
improvement processes, 243
Performance management:
conclusion on, 246–247; and
determining who should rate,
227–228; and developing an
evaluation program, 223–224;
and documentation issues,
231–232; and ethical issues in
appraising performance,
233–234; and evaluation
reviews, 232–233; and
executive evaluation, 228–231;
exercises involving, 248, 249;
and motivation, 218–223,
245–246; overview of,
215–218; and performance
appraisal techniques, 234–241;questions and activities on,
250; and rater training,
224–226; and team-based
performance techniques,
241–244; and use of human
resource information
systems, 389
Performance standards:
job, developing, 235;
organizational, critical, 399
Performance tests, 192–193, 208
Performance-reward relationship,
defi ned, 222
Periodic assessment method, 230
Permissive topics of bargaining, 353
Personal days, 295
Personal factors, consideration of, in
job analysis, 159
Personality inventories, 191–192, 197
Personality measures, 206
Personality-based job analysis,
174–175
Personnel Classifi cation Board, 255
Personnel data, evaluating, 240
Personnel Resources and
Development Center, 35
Person-organization fi t, 203–204
Pew Center on States, 295
Pew Charitable Trusts, 317
Phased retirement, 43–44, 398
Philadelphia Police Department, 84
Physical ability tests, 195, 198
Physical agility tests, 196–197
Physical fi tness tests, 196–197
Physical needs, defi ned, 219
Physicians Regional, 211
Pickering v. Board of Education, 75
Piercings, managing employees
with, exercise involving, 113
Pinellas County Schools Adult
Education Center, 94
Pinellas County Sheriff ’s Offi ce, 113
Planned Parenthood, 318
Planning. See Career planning;
Strategic planning
Planning model, 39
Point of service (POS) plans, 293
Points of Light Foundation, 116, 120
Police offi cer training, 319–320
Policies and procedures,
communicating, using
technology for, 386Political savvy, defi ned, as a
leadership competency, 334
Political Activities Act, 76–77
Political executives, defi ned, 207
Political participation, limits on,
76–77
Poll-worker training program,
317–318
Polygraph examinations, 194–195,
198
Position Analysis Questionnaire
(PAQ), 171–172
Position Classifi cation Inventory, 175
Postal Reorganization Act, 345, 350
Poverty rate, 8
Power, need for, described, 220
Powers, illegal separation of,
358, 359
Practical intelligence, 204–205
Predictive validity, 202
Preemployment testing. See
Employment tests
Preferred provider organizations
(PPOs), 293
Pregnancy Discrimination Act,
60–61
Prerecruitment of volunteers,
process for the, 122–126
PRIDE Behind the Badge, 101
Pride in Wisconsin Government, 101
Principles for the Validation and
use of Personnel Selection
Procedures, 191
Privacy rights, 77, 382
Private sector: collective bargaining
in the, history of, 340–343;
and management rights, 354
Privatization, 9, 10, 366–367
Problem solving, defi ned, as a
leadership competency, 332
Procedural justice, 267
Process redesign, 377
Process theories of motivation, 221
Productivity data, evaluation based
on, 237
Professional and Administrative
Career Examination, 199
Professional employees: and
bargaining units, 347, 348;
defi ned, 272; unionization
of, in the nonprofi t sector,
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