Prospect Research or Cases in Public Human Resource Management

Prospect Research: A Primer for Growing Nonprofits

Author: Cecilia Hogan

Written by a prospect researcher, this unique book provides you with tips you need to find your next major gift donors, including step-by-step instructions.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Language Difficulties
	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	Prospect Research in the Fund-Raiding Process
Ch. 1	The History, Evolution, and Mission of Prospect Research	1
Ch. 2	A Good Time for Ethics	23
Pt. II	Meet the Prospects
Ch. 3	Who are the Prospects? Definitions, Process, and Tools	45
Ch. 4	Institutional Prospects: Corporations, Foundations, and Government Funding	72
Pt. III	Let's Get Practical: How to Prospect Research
Ch. 5	Research Math	103
Ch. 6	Building a Pool of Potential Prospects	144
Ch. 7	Electronic Screening	167
Ch. 8	Prospect Tracking	184
Ch. 9	Walking the Talk (or How to Be a Prospect Researcher)	203
Ch. 10	Creating a Research Plan	233
Ch. 11	Development and Research: Living in the Development World	247
Ch. 12	Building a Prospect Research Reference Library	271
	Glossary of Terms	294

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Cases in Public Human Resource Management

Author: T Zane Reeves

CASES IN PUBLIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT is a collection of 30 actual case studies (with only names changed) with an emphasis on the social and ethical concerns of public managers as well as the impact of 9/11 on the field.

Booknews

A supplementary text for a standard course in public sector personnel management or related subjects. Reeves (U. of New Mexico) has assembled 30 actual cases from personnel management, employment relations, and human resources management. Each case is followed by discussion questions that he recommends students address as small groups. He includes no index or bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface	ix
I.	Personnel Management
1.	Recruitment and Selection: Deer Valley Hires a New Coach	3
2.	Promotion: Tom Collins Doesn't Mix Well	11
3.	Job Evaluation: Some Counselors Are More Equal Than Others	19
4.	Compensation: Paying the Tucson Police	25
5.	The Fair Labor Standards Act: Flexing to Avoid Overtime	33
6.	Employee Benefits: No More Nittany Lions	41
7.	Merit System Standards: Hiring the Unqualified	51
8.	Personnel Records Management: Dissing the Border Patrol	55
II.	Employment Relations
9.	Collective Bargaining (Problem Solving): Handling the Hanford Patrol	63
10.	Collective Bargaining (Positional): Taking the Firefighters' Heat	67
11.	Labor-Management Relations: Holiday Time for Prison Guards	71
12.	Affirmative Action: An African American Woman Among the Good Ol' Boys in Indiana	81
13.	Sexual Harassment: Jailhouse Follies	87
14.	Ethnic Discrimination: Culture Clash at the Cancer Center	95
15.	Off-Duty Conduct: The Cop and the Prostitute	99
16.	Employee Dating and Privacy: The Case of the Cuddly Custodian	107
17.	Employee Due Process: Sergeant Preston of the Yukon Police	117
18.	ADA Concerns: Is Heavy Lifting an Essential Job Function?	121
19.	Hatch Act and Partisan Practices: Political Shoot-Out in the Lone Star State	127
III.	Human Resources Management
20.	Human Resources Planning: Smoky Bear Is an Underfill	135
21.	Performance Evaluation: To Protect and to Serve	141
22.	Employee Development and Training: Fearless Freddy Fuego	147
23.	Layoff and Reduction-in-Force: Eenie-Meenie-Miny-Mo	155
24.	Disparate Treatment in Disciplinary Action: Cattery Row	159
25.	Preponderance of Evidence in Discipline: Case of the Missing Portable Potty	163
26.	Summary Discharge or Progressive Discipline?: Road Rage Among the Tar Heels	171
27.	Managing the Traditional Worker: Billy Goat or Old Goat?	175
28.	Conflict Resolution and Grievance Handling: Too Many Christmas Carols in the Winter Festival	183
29.	Attendance Management: What's a Single Mom to Do?	187
30.	Comparative HRM: Human Resources Management in the Land of the Czars	195