Personnel Administration in Education
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The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the book Personnel Administration in Education by Ronald R. Rebore. The presented analysis critiques the book through an examination of three topics discussed in the text. These are the topics of: Total Quality Management (TQM); Employment Tests, and Sexual Harassment. This discussion of selected topics is then followed by an overall evaluation of the book. Rebore's book is relatively large consisting of about 300 pages discussing various personnel administration issues as they relate to education. The issues discussed include recruitment, human resource planning, collective negotiation, and several other topics. The best way to see both the strengths and the weaknesses of the book overall is to examine the way a few selected areas are handled and look at the positives and negatives associated with the writing of each. In the early chapter of the book, Rebore delineates Deming's fourteen principles of Total Quality Management, noting that Japanese companies have used the TQM approach with great success. It is also noted that American businesses have used the approach starting in the 1980s, and that more and more American companies are continuing to adopt it. Rebore also points out that the approach has only in the last few years been applied to educational institutions. In this discussion, Rebore lists each of the fourteen principles of TQM. These principles include recomm
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limited way as a result of legal rulings specifying that all employment tests must be clearly and directly job-related. Nonetheless, application forms are allowed to be intrusive and irrelevant.
Rebore reports that there are those instances where aptitude tests are given in the hiring of education personnel. For example, in the case where a district wishes to hire a person to train as a mechanic for a school bus, checking for the candidate's mechanical aptitude would only be wise. The same would be true of an office clerk whose typing skills and such should be assessed.
Regardless of whether a candidate is or is not given an employment test, Rebore makes the point that test scores should not be the sole criterion for hiring. Rather, scores should be considered and interpreted along side information obtained through a variety of assessment methods including interviews, references, past employment histories, etc.
Overall, Rebore's coverage of the use of employment tests in personnel administration in education is brief but its brevity is justified. The information that is provided is information that could well be useful. Moreover, the section is well-written, clear and to the point.
Sexual Harassment
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Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page)
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