Traditional and family-friendly benefits practices in local governments: Results from a national survey

    Authors

    G. E. Roberts; J. A. Gianakis; C. McCue;X. H. Wang

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Public Personnel Manage.

    Keywords

    Industrial Relations & Labor; Public Administration

    Abstract

    Traditional and family-friendly benefits are an essential and costly component of the compensation and human resources management system. This research effort surveyed 427 local governments regarding their benefits practices. The results indicate that local governments provide a competitive traditional benefits package (health, pension, etc.) but provide few family-friendly benefits (child care, elder care, etc.). Municipal governments provide greater breadth and depth of benefits coverage than county governments. The provision of family-friendly benefits is positively associated with the number of needs assessment strategies, the dummy variable for municipal government, the number of structural solutions implemented, state management of selected benefits and the provision of part-time benefits.

    Journal Title

    Public Personnel Management

    Volume

    33

    Issue/Number

    3

    Publication Date

    1-1-2004

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    307

    Last Page

    330

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000202938400006

    ISSN

    0091-0260

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