We document the correlations between public service delivery, management practices, and the ethnic diversity of bureaucrats. We do so in the context of Nigeria, where ethnicity is a salient form of identity. We thus expand the empirical management literature highlighting bene...cial e¤ects of workplace diversity, that has focused on private sector ...rms operating in high income settings. Our a...

Speeiul to Tlie LEADER ALBANY, Dec. 10.—A complete survey is in progress by the Dep a r t m e n t of Menta l Hygiene on extra pay for hazardous and a rdu ous work, the Sa lary Coumilttee reported to t he Executive Coiiunltte« uX the Association ot Skate Civil Service Employees. T h e Sal ary Commit tee ha s been actively a t t empt ing to get all emplojees doing hazardous or arduous work includ...

The new global economic system has become a big problem to the developing economies. Such economies are passing through a period of dilemmas, contradictions and social challenges. The reasons may be attributed to the pressures exercised by the developed economies through WTO, structural adjustments, competitive markets, regionalisation of economies and domestic realities. The new global economi...

The civil service system is the backbone of the administrative machinery of the Indian nation. India which is a union of states, has a democratic system. The political system of the country is pluralistic, having three tiers of administration, namely, central, provincial, and local. The federal parliament is bicameral. The lower house known as the Lok Sabha, constitutes elected members of parli...

The payroll roster of NYC employees totals 123,446 persons and there are 17,725 on military leave, as of May 1 last, a canvass of the records of the Municipal Civil Service revealed today. The combined figure, 141,171, is about 2,000 more than for the equivalent 1944 record and 5,000 less than the 1943 figure. The number on leave has increased steadily. Some department totals dropped; others in...

* A c t u a r i a l C o n s u l t a n t , S o c i a l S e c u r i t y A d m i n i s t r a t i o n . Provision of survivor benefits under Federal old-age and survivors insurance in 1939 and under the Railroad Retirement Act in 1946 greatly strengthened and extended the protection given to wage earners and their families. The recent amendments to the Civil Service Retirement Act which, among othe...

This article examines the extent to which annuitants of the Federal employee Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) are entitled to Social Security benefits. It is based on linked administrative data files from the two systems. Ninety-one percent of all those receiving CSRS annuities in 1979 had worked at some point in their careers in jobs that were covered by Social Security. Almost 80 percen...