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Evaluation of Agency’s Public Personnel Administration

Instructions

1. Analyze the organizational design of the selected agency’s human resource management in relationship to the entire organization. Assess its strengths and weaknesses (title this section "Organizational Design").
2. Assess the agency in terms of its global or international linkages, highlighting its application of theory to its approach to personnel management (title this section "Global Linkages and Personnel Management").
3. Analyze at least three of the major components of the agency’s human resource system’s goals and practices regarding the recruitment and hiring of a qualified workforce (title this section "Personnel Recruitment and Hiring Practices").
4. Evaluate the agency’s approach to training and programs provided for new and existing employees for the development of knowledge, skills, and overall competencies, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses (title this section "Employee Skills Training").
5. Recommend at least two actions the agency could take to improve in the areas of recruiting and training a qualified workforce (title this section "Recruiting and Training Recommendations").
6. Appropriately incorporate at least four quality sources. A quality source can be either popular, such as a news article, or scholarly, such as peer-reviewed works. In the case of public administration, government websites are appropriate quality resources. Note: Wikipedia, SparkNotes, and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources. 

How might the performance instrument for a position oriented toward routine duties differ from a managerial position? 

Recommend at least two strategies for how your selected agency (from the assignment) provides training and development to increase the knowledge, skills, and competencies of employees, especially at high levels of the organization.

What resource or publication would be the most effective for finding qualified minorities and women candidates for government employment?

Recommend at least two strategies that public agencies need to adapt to ensure employees are aware of ethical standards and expectations in the workplace.

Select and discuss one positive human resource issue (policy or practice), and how a related challenging topic (current event) continues to evolve in the public sector. 

Choose any federal statute that is currently in the news. You will have to research that statute and at least two court cases pertaining to the statute. Then, prepare a PowerPoint Presentation addressing the following:

1. Provide a summary perspective of the statute.
2. From the two cases relevant to the statute you researched, analyze and evaluate each case separately by providing the following (about two paragraphs per case):
   • Facts of the case.
   • Issues.
   • Rule.
3. Identify and discuss the legal ramifications and violations of any legal subjects and/or decisions related to any constitutional principles and/or administrative agency.
4. Make an argument for or against the statute. Discuss and persuade the audience of your position as a public administrator for or against it.

Your assignment must:

• Include at least eight PowerPoint slides, with two devoted to each of the topics in items 2–4 above. Slides should abbreviate the information in no more than 5–6 bullet points each.
• In the Notes View of each PowerPoint slide, incorporate the notes you would use when presenting the slides to an audience.
• Slide titles should be based on the criteria described above (e.g., “Four Major Changes,” “Major Court Cases,” etc.).
• In addition to the eight content slides required, a title slide and a reference slide are to be included. The title slide is to contain the title of the assignment, your name, the instructor’s name, the course title, and the date. The reference slide should list, using the SWS guidelines, the sources you consulted in writing the paper.

In the text, the section of “Insincerity Seemingly Is Rewarded in the Adversarial System” gives a precursor to the trial system. Discuss whether the need for lawyers to act zealously to win cases explains why lawyers act in sometimes “immoral” ways.

It has been stated, “Judicial review is concerned, not with the decision, but with the decision-making process.” Take a position on whether it should or should not be true. Support your position with examples or evidence.