1987: Critical Issues in Library Personnel Management

29th Allerton Park Institute (1987); Edited by Richard Rubin.

Today the proliferation of library technologies has highlighted rather than diminished the vital role that people play in the changing library environment. The purpose of the 29th Allerton Conference was to identify and discuss some of these issues, and to provide a forum for exchange of ideas on critical issues in personnel management.

The complete text of the Institute is available here as well as the individual papers. The papers included here are:

• Building Job Commitment Among Employees - Martin L. Maehr
• Collective Bargaining In Public Libraries: Preserving Management Prerogatives - Norman Holman
• Organizational Entry: Human Resources Selection And Adaptation In Response To A Complex Labor Pool - Kathleen M. Heim
• Employee Turnover And The Exit Interview - James G. Neal
• Conducting Performance Evaluations - Lucy R. Cohen
• Managing Resistance To Change - Sharon L. Baker
• Why Training Doesn't Stick: Who Is To Blame? - Anne Grodzins Lipow
• Achieving High Performance In Library Work - Charles Martell
• Stress In The Library Workplace - Charles Bunge
• Developing Compensation Systems In Academic Libraries - Frederick Duda
• Developing A Compensation System: The Experience Of The Downers Grove Public Library - Christopher F. Bowen
• Allerton Park As Metaphor - Peggy Sullivan
  

The Proceedings of the Allerton Park Institute have been digitized through the Open Content Alliance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.