Examining training in large municipalities: Linking individual and organizational training needs

Public Personnel Management

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 485-505

  Jacobson, Willow ^a   Rubin, Ellen V ^b   Selden, Sally Coleman ^c  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US General Accounting Office   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0036991091     PISSN: 00910260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/009102600203100405     Document Type: Article

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18. Although general categories encompass the bulk of training offered, there remains training particular to locality such as Total Quality Management, foreign language training, or pay for performance systems. Their lack of proliferation throughout the different cities did not warrant inclusion of a specific category.
19. The "other" category described previously has been excluded from this table for clarity of presentations; 46.88 percent of cities offer a training course to managers that would be labeled as "other."
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21. This measure of unionization is self-reported by the cities.
22. This measure is based on the index created for the GPP analysis.
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