Life Goals Planning and Interpersonal Skill Development: A Programme for Middle Managers in the British Civil Service

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.G. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Middle Managers ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Interpersonal Skill ◽  
Life Goals

Men and Women toward the Top: Backgrounds, Careers, and Potential of Federal Middle Managers

1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory B. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Middle Managers ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Middle Management ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Buddy System ◽  
Management Positions ◽  
Federal Civil Service

Using a variety of data sources, this article compares the earnings, occupations, educations, mobility, handling of subordinates, interactions with supervisors, job satisfaction, and rates of promotion and turnover of men and women in middle-management positions in the federal civil service. Management of problem employees does not differ significantly between the sexes, but women have more problems with their own supervisors than do men. Overall, women are as satisfied as men with the fairness of their treatment, but the women are much more likely to say they have recently lost a job or job reward due to discrimination or a “buddy system.”

scholarly journals If building trust is important, how do we teach novice evaluators to do it?

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Skills ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Interpersonal Skill ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Ongoing Activity ◽  
Evaluation Practice ◽  
Building Trust

People and relationships matter in evaluation. While our literature is replete with examples and guidance about how one might go about using interpersonal skills in practice and the reasons why these skills are important, the pedagogy of interpersonal skill development regarding evaluation remains underdeveloped. In this practice note, an evaluation educator shares an intentional, purposeful, and ongoing activity for helping novice evaluators learn to build trust with stakeholders during a semester-long evaluation practice course. An explanation for why the focus is on trust is presented before describing the learning activity itself. Next, a discussion of factors related to the enactment of this learning activity, including implications for evaluation pedagogy, are presented.

scholarly journals Influence of Physical Engagement on Job Performance among Employees in the Civil Service: A Case of Kakamega Regional Head Quarters in Kenya

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eshiteti Stephen Nyikuli ◽  
Roselyne Makhanu ◽  
Dr. Clive Mukanzi
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Middle Managers ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Sampling Techniques ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Service Employees ◽  
Regional Headquarters ◽  
Civil Service Employees

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of physical engagement on Job Performance among employees in the civil service at Kakamega regional Headquarters, Kenya. A target sample of 258 respondents drawn from a sampling comprising top, supervisory, and lower cadre employees was obtained using stratified and simple random sampling techniques. From the top management, a census was used to obtain all the 30 respondents. From the supervisory and lower cadre employees’ strata, a proportionate allocation was used to select a 61 middle managers and 167 lower cadre employees (representative sample from each) and the data collected by use of questionnaires. Data was analysed using descriptive, correlation and multiple linear regression analyses. Findings of the study indicated that the civil service employees at Kakamega regional Headquarters experience high physical engagement from their superiors. As a results, it was found that their job performance had increased considerably. Further, the study also revealed a strong positive and significant correlation between physical engagement and job performance. These findings suggest that the civil service employees value the physical engagement that they receive from their workplaces which then leads to increased job performance. Therefore, the study recommends that more emphasis should be placed in ensuring the civil servants at Kakamega regional headquarters continue to be more physically engaged for enhanced job performance.

scholarly journals You are Welcome Here: Considerations of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Embracing New Ecologists

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie M. McGill ◽  
Madison J. Foster ◽  
Abagael N. Pruitt ◽  
Samantha Gabrielle Thomas ◽  
Emily R. Arsenault ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Interpersonal Skill ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
Underrepresented Groups ◽  
Undergraduate Research Experiences ◽  
Safety Considerations ◽  
Diverse Groups ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

Ecology is working to face its colonial roots and institutional inequities. As we build more diverse, equitable, and inclusive (DEI) institutions we must work to support new ecologists by empowering them with the knowledge and tools to succeed. Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) are critical for a student’s professional and interpersonal skill development and key for recruiting more diverse groups of students to ecology. Here, we highlight DEI dimensions of a URE in ecology, acknowledge safety considerations for field ecology, including harassment and assault, and provide tools to support the URE. This is written primarily for all URE students and secondarily for their advisors. We welcome students from underrepresented groups and encourage allyship from students from non-underrepresented groups. After reading this paper, we hope that all students feel more confident and excited about their URE and that advisors see how to improve DEI in their lab.

scholarly journals The Impact of Transformational Leadership Behaviors on Work Performance of Omani Civil Service Agencies

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adil Mohamed AlKindy ◽  
Ishak Mad Shah ◽  
Ahmed Jusoh
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Middle Managers ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Service Agencies

<p>In line with the Recommendations of the Symposium of Development of Governmental Performance (Ministry of Civil Services, 2012), this study is investigating the behavior of the Omani Civil Service Agencies' (OCSA) middle managers Transformational Leadership behaviors in enhancing task and contextual behavior work performance. A review of the literature revealed that there is a positive relationship between transformational leadership behaviors and work performance behaviors. However, there is limited number of studies investigating this relationship in Oman generally and specifically in the public sector. The results are expected to show that the transformational leadership behaviors have a positive relationship with task and contextual work performance behaviors of OCSA. </p>

What Clinicians Need to Know About Early Literacy Development in Children With Hearing Loss

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Runnion ◽  
Shelley Gray
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Early Literacy ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Reading Proficiency ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Literacy Skill ◽  
Early Literacy Development ◽  
Literacy Skill Development ◽  
Children With Hearing Loss

PurposeChildren with hearing loss may not reach the same level of reading proficiency as their peers with typical development. Audiologists and speech-language pathologists (SLPs) have important roles to play in preventing this problem early in children's development. In this tutorial, we aim to communicate how the habilitation practices of audiologists and intervention services of SLPs can support early literacy skill development in children with hearing loss.MethodWe describe key findings from peer-reviewed research articles to provide a review of early literacy skill development, to explain the relationship between early literacy skills and conventional reading skills, and to highlight findings from early literacy skill intervention studies that included children with hearing loss who use spoken language. We conclude with a hypothetical case study to illustrate how audiologists and SLPs can support early literacy acquisition in children with hearing loss.ConclusionFindings from studies of young children with hearing loss suggest that a promising approach to improving reading outcomes is to provide explicit early literacy instruction and intervention.

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