James D Slack
Biographic Data
| ID | 3976338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James D Slack |
| GIVEN NAMES | James D |
| FAMILY NAME | Slack |
| SIGNATURE | SLACK J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cleveland State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life
This book focuses on the relationship between public morality and personal action in the American political community. It emphasizes the responsibilities of citizens and government to find and confirm truth, looking to specific sources: religious scripture and empirical events. Recognizing that we have a natural preference for distraction and distance from both sources of truth, Slack uses qualitative, open-ended interviews and direct observation…
Ethics Management for Public and Nonprofit Managers
For decades, the name of Donald C. Menzel has been associated with the study of ethics in the public and nonprofit sectors. While there are a number of excellent ethics scholars in the field of pub
God, Presidents, and Public Administration
Because of the theocentric nature of moral principles in the American culture, presidents strive to underscore their own morality through expressions of God-based values and images. This study examines the nature of these expressions found in more than two centuries of presidential inaugural addresses. Specifically, four messages can be gleaned from the speeches: (1) the boundaries of morality are clearly marked in that the public service should …
The Americans With Disabilities Act and Reasonable Accommodation
This study examines the application of reasonable accommodation to situations involving employees with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Two questions are posed. What types of accommodations are needed? How readily available is the reasonable accommodation component of the Americans With Disabilities Act? These questions are addressed through qualitative analysis. Three lessons are drawn from the findings
Women, Research, and Mentorship in Public Administration
Women's struggle for acceptance in the field of public administration is an on-going concern in both the academic and practitioner worlds. It is well documented that women have made progress in securing careers in the public service, and these successes seem to facilitate the entry of additional women into managerial and leadership positions (Lewis, 1988; Saltzstein, 1986). As promising as these findings are, the overall number and proportion of …
Workplace Preparedness and the Americans with Disabilities Act
Although the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is designed to protect all disabled individuals from workplace discrimination, its mission is somewhat more difficult to accomplish in situations involving employees and job applicants who are either infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or have developed Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Concomitant social and cultural dimensions of this disease quite often make peop…
The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Workplace
Because it protects over 43 million people, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 has the potential of being the most significant piece of civil rights legislation enacted in the last three decades. ADA is comprehensive in its coverage, but Title I is of particular importance because it guarantees one of the fundamental rights demanded by every group and individual citizen in America: the right to have equal access to jobs and career …
Aids and the Political Science Classroom
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Aids-Related Documents from 96 American Cities and Counties
T he Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic is becoming the most pressing issue facing the American workplace. Of the more than 210,000 people in the United States that have contracted AIDS, 98 percent are between 20 and 65 years of age and approximately 80 percent are in the prime working ages of 24 to 40 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1992). Equally disturbing, AIDS is the leading cause of death among women between t…
The Public Administration of Aids
Responding to the Global Epidemic of Aids
Information, Training, and Assistance Needs of Municipal Governments
A fundamental task of local government is to develop and maintain sufficient capacity with which to address people's reasonable expectations and needs. From the perspective of the public manager, this means being able to perform effectively in three critical areas: (1) organizational maintenance, or keeping the internal workings running smoothly, (2) organizational representation, or interacting with the external environment, and (3) organization…
Affirmative Action and Merit in Public Administration
This study tests the hypotheses that graduates of master of public administration (MPA) programs are more supportive of affirmative action than are recipients of other graduate degrees and, conversely, that the principle of merit has a negative effect on such levels of support. Results show that type of graduate education has no bearing on levels of support for affirmative action among city managers throughout the United States. City managers' be…
Affirmative Action and City Managers
Historical and contemporary patterns of recruiting women into the management of the local public sector generally parallel the patterns of blacks and members of other minority groups. Recent advances in the recruitment of women can be attributed in part to the passage of the 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Act and its primary instrument of implementation, affirmative action. Equal employment opportunity means having a setting where discri…
City Managers and Affirmative Action
AFFIRMATIVE action ranks alongside school busing and legalized abortion as one of the most controversial policy issues of the postwar era. While a great deal is now known about public opinion on affirmative action, very little is known about the views of government officials whose support or opposition plays a major role in determining the success or failure of programs designed to bring more minority employees into government service. Our purpos…
Women, Research, and Mentorship in Public Administration
Women's struggle for acceptance in the field of public administration is an on-going concern in both the academic and practitioner worlds. It is well documented that women have made progress in securing careers in the public service, and these successes seem to facilitate the entry of additional women into managerial and leadership positions (Lewis, 1988; Saltzstein, 1986). As promising as these findings are, the overall number and proportion of …
City Managers and Affirmative Action
AFFIRMATIVE action ranks alongside school busing and legalized abortion as one of the most controversial policy issues of the postwar era. While a great deal is now known about public opinion on affirmative action, very little is known about the views of government officials whose support or opposition plays a major role in determining the success or failure of programs designed to bring more minority employees into government service. Our purpos…
The Americans With Disabilities Act and Reasonable Accommodation
This study examines the application of reasonable accommodation to situations involving employees with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Two questions are posed. What types of accommodations are needed? How readily available is the reasonable accommodation component of the Americans With Disabilities Act? These questions are addressed through qualitative analysis. Three lessons are drawn from the findings
Responding to the Global Epidemic of Aids
Affirmative Action and City Managers
Historical and contemporary patterns of recruiting women into the management of the local public sector generally parallel the patterns of blacks and members of other minority groups. Recent advances in the recruitment of women can be attributed in part to the passage of the 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Act and its primary instrument of implementation, affirmative action. Equal employment opportunity means having a setting where discri…
City Managers and Affirmative Action
AFFIRMATIVE action ranks alongside school busing and legalized abortion as one of the most controversial policy issues of the postwar era. While a great deal is now known about public opinion on affirmative action, very little is known about the views of government officials whose support or opposition plays a major role in determining the success or failure of programs designed to bring more minority employees into government service. Our purpos…
Affirmative Action and Merit in Public Administration
This study tests the hypotheses that graduates of master of public administration (MPA) programs are more supportive of affirmative action than are recipients of other graduate degrees and, conversely, that the principle of merit has a negative effect on such levels of support. Results show that type of graduate education has no bearing on levels of support for affirmative action among city managers throughout the United States. City managers' be…
Information, Training, and Assistance Needs of Municipal Governments
A fundamental task of local government is to develop and maintain sufficient capacity with which to address people's reasonable expectations and needs. From the perspective of the public manager, this means being able to perform effectively in three critical areas: (1) organizational maintenance, or keeping the internal workings running smoothly, (2) organizational representation, or interacting with the external environment, and (3) organization…
Aids and the Political Science Classroom
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Aids-Related Documents from 96 American Cities and Counties
T he Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic is becoming the most pressing issue facing the American workplace. Of the more than 210,000 people in the United States that have contracted AIDS, 98 percent are between 20 and 65 years of age and approximately 80 percent are in the prime working ages of 24 to 40 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1992). Equally disturbing, AIDS is the leading cause of death among women between t…
The Public Administration of Aids
Responding to the Global Epidemic of Aids
The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Workplace
Because it protects over 43 million people, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 has the potential of being the most significant piece of civil rights legislation enacted in the last three decades. ADA is comprehensive in its coverage, but Title I is of particular importance because it guarantees one of the fundamental rights demanded by every group and individual citizen in America: the right to have equal access to jobs and career …
Women, Research, and Mentorship in Public Administration
Women's struggle for acceptance in the field of public administration is an on-going concern in both the academic and practitioner worlds. It is well documented that women have made progress in securing careers in the public service, and these successes seem to facilitate the entry of additional women into managerial and leadership positions (Lewis, 1988; Saltzstein, 1986). As promising as these findings are, the overall number and proportion of …
Workplace Preparedness and the Americans with Disabilities Act
Although the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is designed to protect all disabled individuals from workplace discrimination, its mission is somewhat more difficult to accomplish in situations involving employees and job applicants who are either infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or have developed Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Concomitant social and cultural dimensions of this disease quite often make peop…
The Americans With Disabilities Act and Reasonable Accommodation
This study examines the application of reasonable accommodation to situations involving employees with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Two questions are posed. What types of accommodations are needed? How readily available is the reasonable accommodation component of the Americans With Disabilities Act? These questions are addressed through qualitative analysis. Three lessons are drawn from the findings
God, Presidents, and Public Administration
Because of the theocentric nature of moral principles in the American culture, presidents strive to underscore their own morality through expressions of God-based values and images. This study examines the nature of these expressions found in more than two centuries of presidential inaugural addresses. Specifically, four messages can be gleaned from the speeches: (1) the boundaries of morality are clearly marked in that the public service should …
Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life
This book focuses on the relationship between public morality and personal action in the American political community. It emphasizes the responsibilities of citizens and government to find and confirm truth, looking to specific sources: religious scripture and empirical events. Recognizing that we have a natural preference for distraction and distance from both sources of truth, Slack uses qualitative, open-ended interviews and direct observation…
Ethics Management for Public and Nonprofit Managers
For decades, the name of Donald C. Menzel has been associated with the study of ethics in the public and nonprofit sectors. While there are a number of excellent ethics scholars in the field of pub
Political science (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Administration (probate law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)