Application of ZBB: North American Private Sector (Federal, State, and Local Government)

1986 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
Bill Ralston
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
North American ◽  
Federal State ◽  
State And Local Government ◽  
State And Local

scholarly journals Compensation for State and Local Government Workers

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maury Gittleman ◽  
Brooks Pierce
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Labor Statistics ◽  
State And Local Government ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Government Workers ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics ◽  
Public Sector Workers

Are state and local government workers overcompensated? In this paper, we step back from the highly charged rhetoric and address this question with the two primary data sources for looking at compensation of state and local government workers: the Current Population Survey conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Employer Costs for Employee Compensation microdata collected as part of the National Compensation Survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In both data sets, the workers being hired in the public sector have higher skill levels than those in the private sector, so the challenge is to compare across sectors in a way that adjusts suitably for this difference. After controlling for skill differences and incorporating employer costs for benefits packages, we find that, on average, public sector workers in state government have compensation costs 3–10 percent greater than those for workers in the private sector, while in local government the gap is 10–19 percent. We caution that this finding is somewhat dependent on the chosen sample and specification, that averages can obscure broader differences in distributions, and that a host of worker and job attributes are not available to us in these data. Nonetheless, the data suggest that public sector workers, especially local government ones, on average, receive greater remuneration than observably similar private sector workers. Overturning this result would require, we think, strong arguments for particular model specifications, or different data.

Continuity of Operations planning: Meeting the standard of care

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Robin J. Clark, JD ◽  
Megan H. Timmins, JD
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Standard Of Care ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Continuity Of Operations ◽  
State And Local Government ◽  
State And Local

Recent disasters have increased the public’s awareness of the lack of emergency preparedness of state and local governments. The attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 highlighted failures in government agency coordination, while the anthrax attacks that followed and the more recent natural disasters of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 have deepened concerns that our government is unprepared for emergencies. Partially in response to the public’s concern, the federal government has encouraged Continuity of Operations (COOP) planning at the federal, state, and local government levels.Public attention, government engagement, and the promulgation of federal directives and guidance are leading to an increase in the standard of care for all public sector planning efforts, thus creating potential liabilities in the areas of COOP planning, testing, training, and maintenance. At this point, COOP planning is becoming the norm for state and local government agencies, and while the process of COOP planning may itself expose agencies to certain liabilities, there is also an increase in the potential liability for agencies that do not undertake COOP planning efforts. Further, it appears that the potential liability of agencies that do not engage in COOP planning far exceeds any liabilities incurred through the planning process.

City Managers’ Job Satisfaction and Frustration

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 670-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yahong Zhang ◽  
Xiang Yao ◽  
Jong One Cheong
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Local Government ◽  
City Government ◽  
Federal State ◽  
City Managers ◽  
Community Influence ◽  
City Population ◽  
Hygiene Factors ◽  
State And Local Government ◽  
State And Local

As an organizational objective and social value, job satisfaction is important in itself. Various studies have investigated job satisfaction of government employees at the federal, state, and local government levels. This study focuses on job satisfaction of city managers. In particular, it develops Herzberg’s motivator-hygiene theory in the context of local government to identify distinct sets of motivators and hygiene factors for city managers. Using survey data collected from city managers in Georgia, this study suggests that performance of city government and managers’ community influence are important motivators for city managers. Salary and city population are hygiene factors, whereas managers’ policy-making influence, relationship with the council, and effectiveness of council exert significant impact on both satisfaction and frustration. Implications and suggestions are provided.

The Practitioners' Perspective

1975 ◽  
Vol 8 (04) ◽  
pp. 376-380
Author(s):  
Stuart Nagel ◽  
Marian Neal
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Good Group ◽  
Government Work ◽  
Science And Government ◽  
State And Local Government ◽  
State And Local

This article is designed to summarize the findings of a questionnaire directed to APSA members who indicated they held government positions when they completed a form for the 1973 APSABiographical Directory. The questionnaire was designed to determine how political science has been and can be used in federal, state, and local government agencies and in administrative, legislative, and judicial positions.A. The Respondents and the QuestionsIn January, 1975, the questionnaire was mailed to the 425 APSA members who held government positions as of 1973. These persons were chosen as a good group of people to ask about the relevance of political science to government work since they are likely to be knowledgeable about both political science and government work, and are likely to be responsive to such a survey.

History of state and local government in Russia IX-XXI centuries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natal'ya Borschik ◽  
Aleksandr Tret'yakov
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Archival Studies ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
State And Local Government ◽  
History Of ◽  
Background Material ◽  
State And Local ◽  
State Educational ◽  
Relationship Of

The most important task of the Supreme bodies of state power and local administration in Russia is the strengthening and development of modern Russian federalism based on the constitutional relationship of the centre and subjects of Federation. The present textbook contains a set of materials for conducting lectures and practical exercises, background material, questions for self-students, etc. they are based on the author's development, some of which were used as assignments for seminars, essays, essays and other creative works within the framework of the teaching course "the Historical experience of state and local government in Russia." Meets the requirements of Federal state educational standards of higher education of the last generation. For students enrolled in training 46.03.02 "documentation studies and archival studies".

Federal, State and Local Government Publications

1967 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 380
Author(s):  
John L. B. Higgins ◽  
Thomas Shuler Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Federal State ◽  
State And Local Government ◽  
State And Local
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