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Articles

Reconsidering Two Douglas Factors

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/2410/reconsidering-two-douglas-factors.html

Decades and the Douglas Factors

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/2404/decades-douglas-factors.html

If You Get Sued: Liability, Loopholes, Policies, and Politics

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/2285/if-you-get-sued-liability-loopholes-policies.html

Federal Employee Performance Appraisal: The Good, Bad and Ugly

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/2139/federal-employee-performance-appraisal-good-bad-ugly.html

Let The Supervisor Sign

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/2095/let-supervisor-sign.html

The Persistence of Pay-for-Performance in Government

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/2039/persistence-payforperformance-government.html

A Modest Proposal For Improving Federal Supervision

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/1991/modest-proposal-improving-federal-supervision.html

A Merit Badge for the MSPB

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/1890/

The Future of Pay-for-Performance in the Federal Governmen

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/1842/

The Future of Pay-For-Performance Under Pres. Obama

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/1834/

Sizing Up Pay-For-Performance In The Next Administration

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/1823/

Gossip

http://www.trainingfeds.com/files/Gossip.pdf

Dealing With the Unacceptable Employee (Part Two)

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/1695/

When Acceptable People Perform Unacceptably

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/1685/

Penalties for misconduct need to be fair, not identical

http://www.trainingfeds.com/files/fair_penalties.pdf

Let Us Now Praise... Ourselves

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/1634/

Do honest appraisal ratings lead to grievances, EEO complaints?

http://www.trainingfeds.com/files/docid=12779737.pdf

Goals, Objectives, and the Everyday Employee

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/1540/

PIPs Can Elminate Long-Term Performance Problems

http://www.trainingfeds.com/files/FHRW_2_08.pdf

Do you take disciplinary action when you should?

http://www.trainingfeds.com/files/SmartAnswers%20Story.pdf

Why Have Supervisors?

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/1473/

Evaluating EEO As If It Really Mattered

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/1432/

"So, Mr. Einstein, what do you plan to come up with next year?"

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/1402/

Appraisals, Objectivity, and the Little Black Book

http://www.fedsmith.com/articles/articles.showarticle.db.php?intArticleID=1232

Don't Want NSPS? Join A Union!

http://www.fedsmith.com/articles/articles.showarticle.db.php?intArticleID=1184

The Forgotten First Year of Supervision

http://www.fedsmith.com/articles/articles.showarticle.db.php?intArticleID=1167

War and Peace: Should You Discipline or Mediate?

http://www.fedsmith.com/articles/articles.showarticle.db.php?intArticleID=800

Our Discipline System Needs Corrective Action

http://www.fedsmith.com/articles/articles.showarticle.db.php?intArticleID=776

Unmasking the Marginal Federal Employee

http://www.fedsmith.com/articles/articles.showarticle.db.php?intArticleID=659

Making Pay-For-Performance Pay Off (pt3)

http://www.fedsmith.com/articles/articles.showarticle.db.php?intArticleID=653

Making Pay-For-Performance Pay Off (pt2)

http://www.fedsmith.com/articles/articles.showarticle.db.php?intArticleID=651

Making Pay-For-Performance Pay Off (pt1)

http://www.fedsmith.com/articles/articles.showarticle.db.php?intArticleID=648

Suspensions Don't Make Sense

http://www.govexec.com/features/0102/0102manage.htm

Books

The A-To-Z Book of Managing People

by Victoria Kaplan & Robert Kunreuther