PAP 3340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Merit System, Layoff, Career Development

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 3340
• Professor: David Brown

Document Summary

October 11, class 8 variations on merit. Several aspects of human resources management can be considered to be part of the merit system: selection and appointment (psc lead, competition and recourse, recruitment, employee mobility and career progression (psc & tbs) Other aspects of hrm build directly on the merit system, adding up to a career life cycle: training and development, talent management, performance management. Retention, incentives, appraisal and recognition: conduct and discipline, departure. Selection: focus is selection processes for individual jobs. The driver is managers with jobs to fill. Departmental needs may be taken into account. Employee career implications are often incidental: psc policies provide the framework. Certain aspects of selection are particularly sensitive. Advertised v. non-advertised: advertised implies a competitive process (default, pressures for non-advertised. Layoffs, developmental acting appointments, bridging: also scope for abuse of non-advertised. N. b. , casual to term/indeterminate; initial ex appointment. Area of selection: internal v. external, organizational and geographic limits.