Guide Study Exam 3 October 2 What were the major issues for the founding fathers? Explain both patronage and merit systems Who was Andrew Jackson and how was he the 1st in many ways? What did Jackson believe about civil service positions? What is the Pendleton Act and why is it so important? What event was the precursor to the Pendleton Act? What is the EEO and how did it come about? What is AA and how did it come about? How are they different and how are they similar? What is adverse impact and the Admin Procedure of 1978? Who enforces EEO and who enforces AA? October 4 Explain the position classifications of the Fed Govt. What is comparable worth and why is it so important? How do recruitment and selection work? Define the training and development elements to Personnel Explain compensation in Fed govt. and evaluations What are the five challenges facing Civil service? Explain October 9 What does "turning swords in to plowshares mean"? Who was Samuel Gompers and what was his contribution to the Labor Management Relations? What are the statistics of union membership? Explain expansion and contraction and how they relate to the public and private sector What is Collective bargaining and how does it affect State and Federal governments? What was President Reagan's impact on unions? Explain the 4 Impasse Procedures Differentiate Value creating and Value claiming What is the ideal way to negotiate based on Value Creating and Value Claiming? October 16 What was Gardner's about idea leaders v. managers? List and explain the Executive core competencies What are the Problems with the Literature about leadership? How do these problems effect the public and private sectors? Explain Chodorow, Gilligan and Baker's take on leadership styles comparing men and women October 18 Define informal and formal communication and their advantages and disadvantages Explain informal authority, informal rules and informal groups
Explain up, down and horizontal communication flows According to Pilgrim what are the three preferences of learning? What are Rankin's statistics of Public Administrators? What are Edgar Schein's three cultures of managements and how do they relate with one another? Here are the possible essay questions for Exam III. Best of luck. 1. Explain what led to the Pendelton Act of 1883 and the changes in civil service that followed. 2. Explain the issues surrounding comparable worth. 3. Explain the five challenges to recruiting and retaining employees in government service. 4. Explain why unionism expanded in the public sector, but contracted in the private sector between 1960-1975. 5. Explain the four impasse procedures and the potential outcomes of concerted job action. 6. In general explain Gilligan, Chodorow, and Baker's theory on the differences between sexes and specifically the leadership differences between men and women. 7. Define formal and informal communication and explain two advantages and disadvantages with each.