Posts Tagged ‘employee relations’
To Award or Not to Award: What’s the Postal Service to Do?
Posted by Suspicious Expenditures host | Filed under Field Financial, Human Capital
Should the Postal Service be allowed to freely award employees for a job well done? The Postal Service operates as a businesslike entity, but it is also part of the government. Appearances count — particularly in tough economic times. The Postal Service has an interest in recruiting and retaining talented employees to remain competitive, but [...]
Tags: competitive market, employee relations, incentives, postal service, recruitment
Hollywood’s Take on the Postal Service
Posted by RARC host | Filed under Human Capital
It takes a lot of digging to find a positive Hollywood portrayal of postal employees. From Cheers’ Cliff Clavin to Seinfeld’s Newman, TV and the movies have not always portrayed postal employees in the most favorable light. Even Mr. Rogers’ postman sidekick, Mr. McFeeley, was seldom seen actually delivering any mail. “Going postal” was coined [...]
Tags: employee relations, media, public perception, reputation

